The Language of Gaze

Eyes That Talk
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-67833-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Verbal and nonverbal communicative acts mark the links within our discourse, help us to exchange turns and give backchannel in conversation. This book analyses the communicative system of gaze in depth, investigating its structure and functions the same way that words and gestures are studied, and shows how to do so by establishing a phonology, a morphology and a semantics of eye communication, before finally outlining a lexicon of gaze.

Poggi provides a detailed semantic analysis of lexical items, highlights the role of gaze in multimodal communication, and illustrates its uses in everyday life, politics, education and musical performance. The meanings we communicate by gaze are intertwined with the multimodality of our communication, thus integrating, complementing, sometimes contradicting, whether deliberately or inadvertently, what we say with words or gestures.

Starting from a robust theoretical framework, this book also provides an overview of the methods that can be exploited to study gaze, ranging from ethno-semantics to observation and simulation, and provides examples of their use.

A timely and original contribution that is essential reading for advanced students, scholars and researchers of multimodal communication, pragmatics, social psychology and related areas.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poggi, Isabella

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. A first glance

Chapter 2. Gaze and communication

Chapter 3. Methods

Chapter 4. A mine of words

Chapter 5. Optology: the phonology of gaze

Chapter 6. The gazeionary

Chapter 7. Gaze as a lexicon

Chapter 8. Eyebrow words

Chapter 9. Eyes shut and eyes heavenwards

Chapter 10. The power of your eyes

Chapter 11. The teacher’s gaze

Chapter 12. The eyes of music

Conclusion: the richness of gaze

References

Über Autor(innen)

Isabella Poggi has been a Full professor of Psychology at Roma Tre University, and a member of European Networks on Embodied Communication, on Emotions, and Social Signal Processing.