Language of Gaze - Eyes That Talk

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Isabella Poggi, Poggi Isabella
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2024
• EAN: 9781032678337
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3267833-7
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, phonology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc