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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Preface to Handbooks of Communication
Contents
Introduction
1 Verbal communication. An introduction
I. Verbal communication: Fundamentals
2 The origins of human verbal communication
3 Effects of verbal and non-verbal elements in communication
II. Explicit and implicit verbal communication
4 Semantics and verbal communication
5 Evaluative contents in verbal communication
6 Understanding implicit meaning understanding
7 Reference and Informativeness as cognitive processes in verbal communication
8 Metaphor and figurative meaning in verbal communication
III. Conversation, dialogue and mutual understanding
9 Conversation and interaction
10 Dialogue and mutual understanding
IV. Types of discursive activities
11 Narration and reasoning, from structure to biological function
12 Narrative discourse
13 Argumentation and communicative practices
14 Discourse Genres
15 Writing systems and scripts
16 The integration of multimodal resources in documents: Issues, approaches and methods
17 Multimodal resources and the organization of social interaction
V. Verbal communication across media and contexts
18 Media Discourse
19 Language and interaction in new-media environments
20 Verbal communication in organizational settings
21 Translation
22 Multilingual communication
23 Two levels of verbal communication, universal and culture-specific
VI. Verbal communication quality
24 Misunderstandings in verbal communication
25 Deceptive and uncooperative verbal communication
26 Verbal communication quality in institutional contexts
27 Oral communication skills
28 Written communication skills
Biographical sketches
Index
Footnotes
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