Conducting Interaction: Patterns of Behavior in Focused Encounters - Couverture souple

Kendon, Adam

 
9780521389389: Conducting Interaction: Patterns of Behavior in Focused Encounters

Synopsis

This book makes available five classic studies of the organisation of behaviour in face-to-face interaction. It includes Adam Kendon's well-known study of gaze-direction in interaction, his study of greetings, of the interactional functions of facial expression and of the spatial organisation of naturally occurring interaction, as recorded by means of film or videotape. They represent some of the best work undertaken within the 'natural history' tradition of interaction studies, as originally formulated in the work of Bateson, Birdwhistell and Goffman. Chapter 2, written especially for this new book, provides an historical and theoretical discussion of this tradition, and a new final chapter takes up the theme of the organisation of attention in interaction. The introduction provides details of the circumstances of how each paper came to be written. Each of the papers reprinted is accompanied by a short postscript, placing the work in the context of more recent research. Several of the papers presented in this volume, although widely referred to, have long been difficult to obtain. Their republication will be warmly welcomed by all students and teachers who are concerned with face-to-face interaction.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780521380362: Conducting Interaction: Patterns of Behavior in Focused Encounters

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521380367 ISBN 13 :  9780521380362
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1990
Couverture rigide