Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-338).
Contents
"There was a child went forth" -- The age of a baby -- Becoming predictable -- Backgrounds -- There are smiles -- Masculinity and femininity as display -- Kinesic analysis of filmed behavior of children -- The family and its open secrets -- Talk and motion in the theater and at family meals -- Tactile communication in a family -- It depends on the point of view -- Gestures: signals or partials -- Handicaps in the linguistic-kinesic analogy -- "Redundancy" in multi-channel communication systems -- Social contexts of communication -- Toward analyzing American movement -- Movement with speech -- Kinesic stress in American English -- Still photographs, interviews, and filming -- Body signals -- How much data do you need? -- Sequence and tempo -- Head nods -- Similarities and differences -- Body motion research and interviewing -- Body motion -- A kinesic-linguistic exercise: the cigarette scene -- Communication and culture: a limited conclusion.