Nonverbal Communication
Subtitle: Where Nature Meets Culture
Contributors: Ullica Segerstrle (Editor); Peter Moln r (Editor); Peter Molnar (Editor); Ullica Segerstrale (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: January 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780805821796
Subjects: Communication Studies; Cultural studies; Psychology; Sociology, Social Studies; Nonverbal Communication; Emotions; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Social Psychology; Communication; Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology; Body language; Psychology, Comparative
First sentence: One of the basic aims of this book is to convince the reader of the utter artificiality of the supposed opposition between culture and biology.
Description: The book presents a complex picture of human communicative ability as simultaneously biologically and socioculturally influenced, with some capacities apparently more biologically hard-wired than others: face recognition, imitation, emotional communication, and the capacity for language. It also suggests that the dividing line between nonverbal and linguistic communication is becoming much less clearcut.

The contributing authors are leading researchers in a variety of fields, writing here for a general audience. The book is divided into sections dealing with, respectively, human universals, evolutionary and developmental aspects of nonverbal behavior within a sociocultural context, and finally, the multifaceted relationships between nonverbal communication and culture.