Nonverbal Communication in Everyday Life [Book]

Balancing theory and practical applications, this text offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of nonverbal communication, focusing on the roles of physical appearance, gesture, touch, facial expressions, voice, eye contact, and spatial relations in face-to-face interactions. The author places an emphasis on nonverbal communication as a key to understanding diversity, communicating in personal and social relationships, interacting in the workplace, and speaking to inform or persuade. Each of the text' s three parts, Foundations, Codes, and Applications, presents a different aspect of communication, concluding with examples of nonverbal codes present in everyday life.,Balancing theory and practical applications, this text offers a comprehensive introduction to the