Taylor & Francis India: Nonverbal Communication

By Roumen Dimitrov

Mainstream public relations overvalues noise, sound and voice in public communication. But how can we explain that while practitioners use silence on a daily basis, academics have widely remained quiet on the subject? Why is silence habitually famed as inherently bad and unethical? Silence is…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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By Randy Fujishin

Randy Fujishin’s Natural Bridges in Interpersonal Communication, Second Edition is a concise, practical, and reader-friendly book that introduces students to the basic concepts and skills of interpersonal communication. The book presents the fundamental tools necessary to effectively communicate…

Paperback – 2019-10-31
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By Willy Conley

Visual-Gestural Communication is a truly unique volume in non-language communication devoted to the study of universal gestures, facial expressions, body language, and pantomime. Readers develop the skill and confidence to interact -- sans shared language -- with individuals,　such as someone who is…

Paperback – 2019-04-24
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By Anthony Elliott

In this ground-breaking book, Cambridge-trained sociologist Anthony Elliott argues that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about artificial intelligence is either ill-considered or plain wrong. The reason? The AI revolution is not so much about cyborgs and super-robots in the future, but…

Paperback – 2018-12-20
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By Kathleen M. Galvin, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Paul Schrodt, Carma L. Bylund

Family Communication: Cohesion and Change encourages students to think critically about family interaction patterns and to analyze them using a variety of communication theories. Using a framework of family functions, current research, and first-person narratives, this text emphasizes the diversity…

Paperback – 2018-10-01
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Edited by Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli, Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez

This volume presents innovative research on the multimodal dimension of discourse specific to academic settings, with a particular focus on the interaction between the verbal and non-verbal in constructing meaning. Contributions by experienced and emerging researchers provide in-depth analyses in…

Paperback – 2018-02-05
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Routledge Studies in Multimodality

Edited by Pedro Passos, Keith Davids, Jia Yi Chow

Interpersonal coordination is an important feature of all social systems. From everyday activities to playing sport and participating in the performing arts, human behaviour is constrained by the need to continually interact with others. This book examines how interpersonal coordination tendencies…

Paperback – 2017-11-13
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By Michael Eaves, Dale G. Leathers

Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications demonstrates how knowledge of nonverbal messages can affect successful communication in the real world. Now with fifteen chapters, the fifth edition draws students in through applications of the latest nonverbal communication research…

Paperback – 2017-10-06
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Edited by Graham McGregor, R. S. White

Originally published in 1990. Each of the 12 chapters in this book build upon an approach to the analysis of spoken and written texts that is centred upon the recipient rather than the producer, for the abilities of listeners and readers deserve much attention. This book should be of interest to…

Paperback – 2017-08-29
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Routledge Library Editions: Communication Studies

Edited by R. S. White

Originally published in 1986. This collection of essays is unified by one leading idea: that the active and creative abilities of listeners and readers deserve as much attention as the skills of speakers and writers. It is shown that hearers, far from being passive recipients in the communicative…

Paperback – 2017-08-29
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Routledge Library Editions: Communication Studies

By Starkey Duncan, Donald W. Fiske

Originally published in 1977. This book focuses on how to do research in the area of face-to-face interaction when studying human social conduct. It covers the methods of data collection and analysis and looks at the efficiency of these. It secondarily considers a model for conceptualising such…

Paperback – 2017-08-29
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Routledge Library Editions: Communication Studies

By Masami Nishishiba

Intercultural communication is a necessary skill for those who work in the public and nonprofit sectors, and yet there is a dearth of literature available to help public and nonprofit professionals develop an ability to effectively communicate, interact, and lead in a multicultural society. Drawing…

Paperback – 2017-07-20
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