Non-verbal Communication

Robert A. Hinde (Edited by)

9780521290128, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 November 1975

476 pages
22.8 x 15 x 2.6 cm, 0.775 kg

'This volume represents an extremely valuable contribution … the papers in conjunction with their editorial comments serve as an excellent … introduction to research and serious thought in the field.' American Journal of Physical Anthropology

The importance in social relationships of the exchange of information by non-verbal gestures and expressions, though long appreciated by artists and writers, has only recently become the subject of serious scientific study. The subject has been approached from different angles by psychologists studying the relevance of non-verbal communication to interpersonal relationships, by anthropologists interested in how these processes help to integrate societies, and by ethologists extrapolating the results of animal studies to human behaviour. The scope of the volume ranges from formal analysis of the communication process by an information theorist (Professor Mackay) and by a linguist (Professor Lyons), to accounts of the role of expression in the theatre (Dr Jonathan Miller) and in the visual arts (Professor Gombrich). There are contributions to the discussion written from the point of view of the zoologist, the ethologist, the psychologist and anthropologist.

Preface
Members of the study group
General introduction
Part I. The Nature of Communication: Introduction
1. Formal analysis of communicative processes D. M. Mackay
2. The comparison of vocal communication in animals and man W. H. Thorpe
3. Human language J. Lyons
Part II. Communication in Animals: Introduction
4. Some principles of animal communication J. M. Cullen
5. The lower vertebrates and the invertebrates W. H. Thorpe
6. Vocal communication in birds W. H. Thorpe
7. The information potentially available in mammal displays R. J. Andrew
Part III. Non-Verbal Communication in Man: 8. A comparative approach to the phylogeny of laughter and smiling J. A. R. A. M. van Hooff
9. Non-verbal communication in human social interaction Michael Argyle
10. Non-verbal communication in children N. G. Blurton Jones
11. Similarities and differences between cultures in expressive movement I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt
12. the influence of cultural context on non-verbal communication in man Edmund Leach
13. Non-verbal communication in the mentally ill E. C. Grant
14. Plays and players Jonathan Miller
15. Action and expression in western art E. H. Gombrick
Epilogue
References
Author index
Index.

Subject Areas: Animal behaviour [PSVP], Psychology [JM]