Verbal Communication

by Rocci, Andrea Saussure, Louis de

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Full title :Verbal Communication

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Common sense tells us that verbal communication should be a central concern both for the study of communication and for the study of language. Language is the most pervasive means of communication in human societies, especially if we consider the huge gamut of communication phenomena where spoken and written language combines with other modalities, such as gestures or pictures. Most communication researchers have to deal with issues of language use in their work. Classic methods in communication research - from content analysis to interviews and questionnaires, not to mention the obvious cases of rhetorical analysis and discourse analysis - presuppose the understanding of the meaning of spontaneous or elicited verbal productions. Despite its pervasiveness, verbal communication does not currently define one cohesive and distinct subfield within the communication discipline. The Handbook of Verbal Communication seeks to address this gap. In doing so, it draws not only on the communication discipline, but also on the rich interdisciplinary research on language and communication that developed over the last fifty years as linguistics interacted with the social sciences and the cognitive sciences. The interaction of linguistic research with the social sciences has produced a plethora of approaches to the study of meanings in social context - from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, while cognitive research on verbal communication, carried out in cognitive pragmatics as well as in cognitive linguistics, has offered insights into the interaction between language, inference and persuasion and into cognitive processes such as framing or metaphorical mapping. The Handbook of Verbal Communication vo ...

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Publication Date:2016

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Publisher(s):De Gruyter, De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Mouton
Place of Publication:Berlin/Boston
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

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Description:Online-Ressource.

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ISBN:9783110394696, 3110394693, 9783110255478, 3110255472
DOI:10.1515/9783110255478
oclc:ocn944080984
LC Classification:P95.3
Dewey Decimal:302.2

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(Produktform)Electronic book text (VLB-WN)9745 (Zielgruppe)Allgemein Aufsatzsammlung Communication orale Discourse analysis EBK: eBook Kommunikation Online-Ressource Oral communication Pragmatics Pragmatique Sprache Verbal Communication, Pragmatics, Disco…