2. The origins of human verbal communication

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series v
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction
5. 1. Verbal communication. An introduction 3
6. I. Verbal communication: Fundamentals
7. 2. The origins of human verbal communication 23
8. 3. Effects of verbal and non-verbal elements in communication 39
9. II. Explicit and implicit verbal communication
10. 4. Semantics and verbal communication 57
11. 5. Evaluative contents in verbal communication 77
12. 6. Understanding implicit meaning understanding 97
13. 7. Reference and Informativeness as cognitive processes in verbal communication 123
14. 8. Metaphor and figurative meaning in verbal communication 141
15. III. Conversation, dialogue and mutual understanding
16. 9. Conversation and interaction 165
17. 10. Dialogue and mutual understanding 181
18. IV. Types of discursive activities
19. 11. Narration and reasoning, from structure to biological function 205
20. 12. Narrative discourse 225
21. 13. Argumentation and communicative practices 245
22. 14. Discourse Genres 269
23. 15. Writing systems and scripts 287
24. 16. The integration of multimodal resources in documents: Issues, approaches and methods 309
25. 17. Multimodal resources and the organization of social interaction 329
26. V. Verbal communication across media and contexts
27. 18. Media Discourse 353
28. 19. Language and interaction in new-media environments 375
29. 20. Verbal communication in organizational settings 395
30. 21. Translation 413
31. 22. Multilingual communication 429
32. 23. Two levels of verbal communication, universal and culture-specific 447
33. VI. Verbal communication quality
34. 24. Misunderstandings in verbal communication 485
35. 25. Deceptive and uncooperative verbal communication 509
36. 26. Verbal communication quality in institutional contexts 535
37. 27. Oral communication skills 549
38. 28. Written communication skills 567
39. Biographical sketches 587
40. Index 595