Verbal Communication

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2016

Verbal Communication

Edited by: Andrea Rocci and Louis de Saussure

Volume 3 in the series Handbooks of Communication Science

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110255478

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Common sense tells us that verbal communication should be a central concern both for the study of communication and for the study of language. Language is the most pervasive means of communication in human societies, especially if we consider the huge gamut of communication phenomena where spoken and written language combines with other modalities, such as gestures or pictures. Most communication researchers have to deal with issues of language use in their work. Classic methods in communication research - from content analysis to interviews and questionnaires, not to mention the obvious cases of rhetorical analysis and discourse analysis - presuppose the understanding of the meaning of spontaneous or elicited verbal productions. Despite its pervasiveness, verbal communication does not currently define one cohesive and distinct subfield within the communication discipline.
The Handbook of Verbal Communication seeks to address this gap. In doing so, it draws not only on the communication discipline, but also on the rich interdisciplinary research on language and communication that developed over the last fifty years as linguistics interacted with the social sciences and the cognitive sciences. The interaction of linguistic research with the social sciences has produced a plethora of approaches to the study of meanings in social context - from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, while cognitive research on verbal communication, carried out in cognitive pragmatics as well as in cognitive linguistics, has offered insights into the interaction between language, inference and persuasion and into cognitive processes such as framing or metaphorical mapping.
The Handbook of Verbal Communication volume takes into account these two traditions selecting those issues and themes that are most relevant for communication scholars. It addresses background matters such as the evolution of human verbal communication and the relationship between verbal and non-verbal means of communication and offers a an extensive discussion of the explicit and implicit meanings of verbal messages, with a focus on emotive and figurative meanings. Conversation and fundamental types of discourse, such as argument and narrative, are presented in-depth, as is the key notion of discourse genre. The nature of writing systems as well as the interaction of spoken or written language with non-verbal modalities are devoted ample attention.
Different contexts of language use are considered, from the mass media and the new media to the organizational contexts. Cultural and linguistic diversity is addressed, with a focus on phenomena such as multilingual communication and translation.
A key feature of the volume is the coverage of verbal communication quality. Quality is examined both from a cognitive and from a social perspective. It covers topics that range from to the cognitive processes underlying deceptive communication to the methods that can be used to assess the quality of texts in an organizational context.

Author / Editor information

Louis de Saussure, Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Andrea Rocci, University of Lugano, Switzerland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction
1. Verbal communication. An introduction Louis de Saussure and Andrea Rocci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
I. Verbal communication: Fundamentals
2. The origins of human verbal communication Gloria Origgi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. Effects of verbal and non-verbal elements in communication Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
II. Explicit and implicit verbal communication
4. Semantics and verbal communication Andrea Rocci and Margherita Luciani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
5. Evaluative contents in verbal communication Peter R. R. White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
6. Understanding implicit meaning understanding Victoria Escandell-Vidal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
7. Reference and Informativeness as cognitive processes in verbal communication Catherine Davies and Napoleon Katsos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
8. Metaphor and figurative meaning in verbal communication Marcel Danesi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
III. Conversation, dialogue and mutual understanding
9. Conversation and interaction Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
10. Dialogue and mutual understanding Ivana Marková Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
IV. Types of discursive activities
11. Narration and reasoning, from structure to biological function Jean-Louis Dessalles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
12. Narrative discourse Neal R. Norrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
13. Argumentation and communicative practices Frans H. van Eemeren and Corina Andone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
14. Discourse Genres Carolyn R. Miller and Ashley R. Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
15. Writing systems and scripts Terry Joyce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
16. The integration of multimodal resources in documents: Issues, approaches and methods John A. Bateman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
17. Multimodal resources and the organization of social interaction Lorenza Mondada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
V. Verbal communication across media and contexts
18. Media Discourse Daniel Perrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
19. Language and interaction in new-media environments Mark Aakhus and Stephen DiDomenico Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
20. Verbal communication in organizational settings François Cooren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
21. Translation Stefano Arduini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
22. Multilingual communication Raphael Berthele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
23. Two levels of verbal communication, universal and culture-specific Anna Wierzbicka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
VI. Verbal communication quality
24. Misunderstandings in verbal communication Nicholas Allott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
25. Deceptive and uncooperative verbal communication Steve Oswald, Didier Maillat and Louis de Saussure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	509
26. Verbal communication quality in institutional contexts Geert Jacobs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	535
27. Oral communication skills John O. Greene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	549
28. Written communication skills Mary Jo Reiff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	567
Biographical sketches Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	587
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	595

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Institutes, libraries, undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as scholars and everyone interested in the whole area of communication studies as well as people interested in nonverbal communication and behaviour such as lingustists, psychologists, communication scientists and journalists.
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 603
Keywords: Verbal Communication; Pragmatics; Discourse Analysis

eBook

Published: March 7, 2016
ISBN: 9783110255478

Hardcover

Published: March 7, 2016
ISBN: 9783110255454