Verbal communication [online] / Andrea Rocci, Louis Saussure

Frontmatter Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series Contents

Introduction 1. Verbal communication. An introduction

I. Verbal communication: Fundamentals 2. The origins of human verbal communication 3. Effects of verbal and non-verbal elements in communication

II. Explicit and implicit verbal communication 4. Semantics and verbal communication 5. Evaluative contents in verbal communication 6. Understanding implicit meaning understanding 7. Reference and Informativeness as cognitive processes in verbal communication 8. Metaphor and figurative meaning in verbal communication

III. Conversation, dialogue and mutual understanding 9. Conversation and interaction 10. Dialogue and mutual understanding

IV. Types of discursive activities 11. Narration and reasoning, from structure to biological function 12. Narrative discourse 13. Argumentation and communicative practices 14. Discourse Genres 15. Writing systems and scripts 16. The integration of multimodal resources in documents: Issues, approaches and methods 17. Multimodal resources and the organization of social interaction

V. Verbal communication across media and contexts 18. Media Discourse 19. Language and interaction in new-media environments 20. Verbal communication in organizational settings 21. Translation 22. Multilingual communication 23. Two levels of verbal communication, universal and culture-specific

VI. Verbal communication quality 24. Misunderstandings in verbal communication 25. Deceptive and uncooperative verbal communication 26. Verbal communication quality in institutional contexts 27. Oral communication skills 28. Written communication skills

Biographical sketches Index

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