Communication, Film & Theatre

This text offers a complete and precise explanation of the principles of nonverbal communication and its application in everyday life.

The authors draw from a wide variety of disciplines and upon their vast experience as instructors, consultants, and corporate trainers to offer a unique blend of social scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of nonverbal behavior. This well-researched book offers conclusions about the research in an easy-to-read and student-friendly style. Each chapter includes exercises, activities, self-tests, or questionnaires that help students understand the actual and potential impact of nonverbal behaviors on communication. It also helps students build the skills they will need to become competent nonverbal communicators in today's global community.

• Blends theory, research, and applications to enable students of all levels to understand the material.

• Includes instructional measures and exercises throughout the book to help students evaluate their own communication and apply the material in the text to real-world situations.

• Explores the differences in cross cultural nonverbal behaviors, including differences between greetings, gestures, gifts, and time usage among various cultures around the world, emphasizing the importance of understanding other cultures in order to communicate with them effectively.

• Reviews the specific relationships we encounter daily and the impact of nonverbal communication on them: female/male, supervisor/subordinate, teacher/student, and intercultural.

• Helps students build skills in interpreting nonverbal and verbal cues and in sending the desired cues to others.

• Encourages students to recall and explain how facial management techniques work using MIND (Masking, Intensification, Neutralization, and Deintensification) facial expression exercises.

• Demonstrates the extent and ways in which men and women really do focus on their body images with an Image Fixation Questionnaire, developed by Richmond.

• Offers a new Instructor's Manual, which includes guidelines for objectives, exercises, and testing, test questions, and an outline of each chapter.

• Includes measures and exercises in most chapters to help keep students interested in the material and improve their ability to turn theory and research into practical knowledge.

• Updates chapters with current research and data while maintaining some of the more classic references that still are significant to the field, enabling students to compare older and newer references and see the evolution of the research in nonverbal communication.

1. Communication and Nonverbal Behavior.

2. Physical Appearance.

3. Gesture and Movement.

4. Facial Behavior.

5. Eye Behavior.

6. Vocal Behavior.

7. Space and Territoriality.

8. Touch and Communication.

9. Environment and Physical Surroundings.

10. Time.

11. Immediacy and Communication.

12. Female-Male Nonverbal Communication.

13. Supervisor and Employee Relationships.

14. Teacher-Student Nonverbal Relationships.

15. Intercultural Relationships.

Nonverbal Communication  (Speech Communication)

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  Nonverbal Behavior in Interpersonal Relations, 6/E
  Richmond, McCroskey & Hickson
  ©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 384 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 020548669X | ISBN-13: 9780205486694
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  Nonverbal Behavior in Interpersonal Relations offers a complete and precise explanation of the principles of nonverbal communication and their application in everyday life.

   

  The authors draw from a wide variety of disciplines and upon their vast experience as instructors, consultants, and corporate trainers to offer a unique blend of social scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of nonverbal behavior. This well-researched book offers conclusions about the research in an easy-to-read and student-friendly style. Each chapter includes exercises, activities, self-tests, or questionnaires that help students explore and understand the actual and potential impact of nonverbal behaviors on communication. The text also helps students build the skills they will need to become competent nonverbal communicators in today's global community.

Nonverbal Behavior in Interpersonal Relations offers a complete and precise explanation of the principles of nonverbal communication and its application in everyday life. The authors draw from a wide variety of disciplines and upon their vast experience as instructors, consultants, and corporate trainers to offer a unique blend of social scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of nonverbal behavior. This well-researched book offers conclusions about the research in an easy-to-read and student-friendly style. Each chapter includes exercises, activities, self-tests, or questionnaires that help students understand the actual and potential impact of nonverbal behaviors on communication. It also helps students build the skills they will need to become competent nonverbal communicators in today's global community.

New and notable features:

• Offers a new Instructor's Manual, which includes guidelines for objectives, exercises, and testing, test questions, and an outline of each chapter.
• Explores the differences in cross cultural nonverbal behaviors, including differences between greetings, gestures, gifts, and time usage among various cultures around the world, emphasizing the importance of understanding other cultures in order to communicate with them effectively.
• Blends theory, research, and applications to enable students of all levels to understand the material.
• Includes instructional measures and exercises throughout the book to help students evaluate their own communication and apply the material in the text to real-world situations.
• Updates chapters with current research and data while maintaining some of the more classic references that still are significant to the field, enabling students to compare older and newer references and see the evolution of the research in nonverbal communication.

Instructor's Manual (Download only), 5/E
Richmond & McCroskey
©2004 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205397263 | ISBN-13: 9780205397266
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Allyn & Bacon Digital Media Archive for Communication, Version 3.0, 3/E
Allyn & Bacon
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | CD-ROM Only; 32 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205437095 | ISBN-13: 9780205437092

InterWrite PRS RF (Personal Response System)
InterWrite PRS & Allyn & Bacon/Longman
©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205436951 | ISBN-13: 9780205436958

iClicker Classroom Response System
iClicker & Allyn & Bacon/Longman
©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205594506 | ISBN-13: 9780205594504

For Nonverbal Communication

MySearchLab (access code required)
Pearson
©2010 | Allyn & Bacon | Website | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205699391 | ISBN-13: 9780205699391
URL:  http://www.mysearchlab.com

Pearson Allyn & Bacon Nonverbal Communication Study Site
Allyn & Bacon
©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Website | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205593968 | ISBN-13: 9780205593965
URL:  http://www.abnonverbal.com

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