Conducting Interaction: Patterns of Behavior in Focused Encounters: 7 (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, Series Number 7) - Softcover

Kendon, Adam

 
9780521389389: Conducting Interaction: Patterns of Behavior in Focused Encounters: 7 (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, Series Number 7)

Synopsis

This book makes available five classic studies of the organisation of behaviour in face-to-face interaction.

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Review

"This book is a landmark in the development of naturalistic research on social interaction. It powerfully demonstrates the analytic rewards of utilizing film and video to explicate the fine details of in situ human conduct, and provides a distinctive methodological orientation for an anthropology of social interaction." American Anthropologist

"This volume provides a broad selection of work by a pioneering and influential investigator of face-to-face interaction... Kendon's chapters remain required reading for those concerned with basic interaction processes, as well as an appropriately cautionary note for those interested in using those processes to illuminate other major psychological and social phenomena." Contemporary Psychology

"The book is clearly written and should be easy to follow... It would obviously be of value for a course in in interational sociolonguistics, but would also be useful for students of psychology and psychiatry. It is possible that even students and teachers of drama might find it interesting and useful for its detailed analysis of how people convey meaning in interactions." Canadian Journal of Linguistics

Book Description

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.

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ISBN 10:  0521380367 ISBN 13:  9780521380362
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990
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