205 pages : 29 cm

Modern theories and methods -- Biology and culture as two determinants of nonverbal communication -- The varieties of nonverbal languages -- Nonverbal expression -- The informative value of movement -- People alone -- The role of context in the interpretation of action -- People together -- Codification in material terms -- Object, word, and number -- The language of identification and recognition -- Appeal and social control through material things -- The organization of the material environment as personal expression -- The syntax of object language -- Social conflict and stress -- Language and psychopathology -- Disturbances of perception and evaluation -- Art, communication, and mental illness -- Toward a theory of nonverbal communication

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