Pragmatics and Nonverbal Communication

The way we say the words we say helps us convey our intended meanings. Indeed, the tone of voice we use, the facial expressions and bodily gestures we adopt while we are talking, often add entirely new layers of meaning to those words. How the natural non-verbal properties of utterances interact with linguistic ones is a question that is often largely ignored. This book redresses the balance, providing a unique examination of non-verbal behaviours from a pragmatic perspective. It charts a point of contact between pragmatics, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, ethology and psychology, and provides the analytical basis to answer some important questions: How are non-verbal behaviours interpreted? What do they convey? How can they be best accommodated within a theory of utterance interpretation?

ISBN 0521691443   Pages 230 ISBN13 9780521691444 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 380 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Paperback   Height (mm) 228 Publication date 17 Sep 2009   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 302.222   Spine width (mm) 10 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate

1		Natural pragmatics		1
2		Natural and non-natural meaning		18
3		Pragmatics and the domain of pragmatic principles		38
4		Interjections and language		70
5		Natural codes		107
6		Prosody and gesture		139
7		Mindreaders		155
8		The showing - meaning[subscript NN] continuum and beyond		171
		References		195
		Index		211

'... a most timely work ... not only does Wharton achieve an innovative, brave and systematic re-analysis in coherence with the cognitive theoretic pragmatic paradigm he endorses, but also he raises many intriguing and stimulating questions, and suggests new and challenging directions for future work which will spark off much discussion and research.' Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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