Communicating : the multiple modes of human communication /
Many accounts of human communication suggest that we are limited to communicating through words, visual images, the mass media and by digital means. This perspective underestimates the multisensory qualities of much of our human interconnecting and the multiple sounds, touches, sights and material o...
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New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I Foundations; 1 Communicating humans . . . but what does that mean?; Communication and human interconnectedness; Perspectives on communication; Communicating
- a multiple, relative and emergent process; 2 How can we communicate? The basic resources of humans and other animals; The human senses; 'Non-verbal' expression; 'Multiple human intelligences'; 'Media', artefacts and human-made arts
- The channels of animal communication; The communicating human animal; Our complex bundle of resources; Part II Channels of communication; 3 The sounding world and its creation; The sonic resources for animal communicating . . .; . . . and their human uses; The arts and organisation of acoustic communication; Sonic creation and experience in a wealth of cultures; The limits and versatilities of audition; 4 Shaping the sights: vision and the communicating body; Vision in animal and human communication; The visible human body; Seeing spatial relations; Movement, gestures and 'sign languages'
- The shaped and adorned body; Our embodied visual resources; 5 Creating and sharing sights: human arts and artefacts; The sight of objects; Pictorial and graphic sights; The roles of vision in human cultures; 6 Sensing the odour; Smelling and tasting: resources for human communicating?; Animal uses of smell; Olfaction and human communication: the odorous body and its ordering; Olfactory arts and artefacts; 7 Communicating touch; The tactile channel and animal communication; Human touching as communication; Regulating and organising tactile communication
- Systems of tactile communication and their extension over time and space; Conclusion; Part III The multiple creativity in human communicating; 8 Communicating through the ether: a story of dreaming, death and the imaginary; Death, near-death and death-and-return narratives; Dreams, dreaming and others' voices; Telepathy and communicating through the ether: is it possible?; A new communications revolution
- or an old one?; 9 A mix of arts; The interwoven modes of human communicating; Multiplicity and human interconnectedness; 10 Through space and time; Covering distance, spatial and temporal
- What now?; The senses
- again: earthly and heavenly; Humans as communicators; Notes; Bibliography; Index