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Pike, Kenneth L. – Semiotica, 1975
This article discusses three characteristics useful in defining the relations between speakers in the turn-taking aspects of conversation: the derivational history of personal relationships, stop-action pseudo-history versus dynamic compacted posing, and the criss-crossing of verbal versus kinetic axes. (Available from Semiotica, Co-Libri, P.O.…
Descriptors: Body Language, Interaction, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Relationship
von Raffler-Engel, Walburga – 1982
A study of randomly selected "Donahue" shows revealed how host Phil Donahue interacts with several parties at one time and how he subordinates various interactions to suit the hierarchy of importance he attributes to each party, with the television viewer being the most important. Donahue organizes his body movement mainly for television…
Descriptors: Body Language, Commercial Television, Communication Research, Communication Skills
Levi, Bruce A. – 1979
The exploration of movement as it reveals the subconscious and subjective side of individuals is described to illustrate a method of psychological inquiry known as phenomenology. Spontaneous, improvised dance performed by two different couples was video-taped and analyzed. The couples, a man and woman in a courting relationship and two women in a…
Descriptors: Body Language, Case Studies, Dance, Interaction
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Cappella, Joseph N. – Psychological Bulletin, 1981
Reviewed literature on the influence of a speaker's expressive behavior on the behavioral response of another person in adult-adult and infant-adult dyads. Mutual influence in expressive behaviors was demonstrated to be a pervasive feature of social interaction found across a variety of behaviors and across developmental time. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Body Language, Communication Research, Expressive Language
Grujic, Zdenda; Libby, William L., Jr. – 1978
The present study was designed to investigate whether known intercultural differences in nonverbal behavior extend to specific nonverbal repertoires accompanying, and perhaps facilitating the act of speaking a verbal language. Conversations in the form of structured interviews between 48 French-Canadian, French-English bilinguals (24 males and 24…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Siegel-Causey, Ellin, Ed.; Guess, Doug, Ed. – 1988
The purpose of this manual, the culmination of a graduate project begun at the University of Kansas, is to assist individuals with severe, multiple disabilities and their service providers in learning to utilize nonsymbolic behaviors in an expanded, facilitative manner that leads to more consistent and predictable communication functioning. The…
Descriptors: Body Language, Communication Skills, Eye Contact, Facial Expressions
Miller, Larry D. – 1978
Research on attraction in an interpersonal context has strongly suggested that the more attracted two people are to one another, the more they tend to communicate. This study explored attraction and social interaction patterns at the perceptual level. Eighty male and female graduate students, 40 black and 40 white, completed a two part measure of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conflict