Things and Words

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. PART I. Language and Nonverbal Behavior as Organizers of Social Systems
3. Language and Nonverbal Behavior as Organizers of Social Systems 3
4. PART II. The Suprasegmentals of Interaction
5. Accents that Determine Stress 37
6. The Relation of Interactional Synchrony to Cognitive and Emotional Processes 49
7. The Rhythmic Basis of Interactional Micro- Synchrony 67
8. Proto-Rhythms: Nonverbal to Language and Musical Acquisition 77
9. A Method for Film Analysis of Ethnic Communication Style 93
10. Chronemics and the Verbal-Nonverbal Interface 101
11. The Role of Rhythm in ‘Cementing’ Meaning in Piman Songs 119
12. PART III. Organization of Language and Nonverbal Behavior
13. Some Notes on Analyzing Data on Face-to-Face Interaction 127
14. Requesting, Giving, and Taking: The Relationship Between Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior in the Speech Community of the Eipo, Irian Jaya (West New Guinea) 139
15. Preverbal Communication and Linguistic Evolution 167
16. Interruptions of Continuity and Other Features Characteristic of Spontaneous Talk 185
17. The Nonverbal Context of Verbal Listener Responses 193
18. Gesticulation and Speech: Two Aspects of the Process of Utterance 207
19. Things and Words 229
20. PART IV. Acquisition of Communicative Behavior
21. The Infant’s Communicative Competencies and the Achievement of Intersubjectivity 261
22. ‘Acquisition’ of Communication Competence: Is Language Enough? 275
23. Silence is Golden? The Changing Role of Non-Talk in Preschool Conversations 295
24. PART V Theoretical Approaches to Human Interaction
25. Dionysians and Apollonians 317
26. The Analogy of Linguistics with Chemistry 319
27. Why Electromagnetism Is the Only Causal ‘Spook’ Required to Explain Completely Any Human Behavior or Institution 327
28. Bibliography 349
29. Index 383