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The present chapter focuses on the relation between nonverbal communication and globality. Firstly it describes, from a historical perspective, the theoretical development concerning body language, starting with its inclusion in ancient rhetoric unto the creation of the concept of “nonverbal communication” in the middle of the twentieth century. According to the worldwide increase of intercultural contact and interaction caused by the effects of globalization, the chapter reveals and discusses in which way, as a result of this, the increased crossing-over of cultural coded habits, in addition to changing individual body consciousness, challenges humanity as well as scholars in the study of the nonverbal sphere, addressing also the areas of electronic media and Internet-based communication.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Jürgen Ruesch/Weldon Kees, Nonverbal Communication. Notes on the Visual Perception of Human Relations, Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956.

  2. 2.

    Cf. Paul Watzlawick/Janet Beavin Bavelas/Don D. Jackson, Pragmatics of Human Communication: A study of interactional patterns, pathologies, and paradoxes, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.

  3. 3.

    Cf. Edward T. Hall, The Silent Language, New York: Doubleday, 1959.

  4. 4.

    Michael Argyle, Bodily Communication, London: Methuen&Co., 1975.

  5. 5.

    Hartwig Kalverkämper, Nonverbale Kommunikation, in: Ingo Kolboom/Thomas Kotschi/Edward Reichel (eds.), Handbuch Französisch: Sprache-Literatur-Kultur-Gesellschaft: Für Studium, Lehre, Praxis, Berlin: Schmidt, 2008 (2nd edition), p. 374.

  6. 6.

    Ibid., p. 381.

  7. 7.

    Adam Kendon, On the Origins of Modern Gesture Studies, in: Susan D. Duncan/Justine Cassell/Elena T. Levy (eds.), Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language. Essays in Honor of David McNeill, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2007, p. 25.

  8. 8.

    Adam Kendon, Did Gesture Have the Happiness to Escape the Curse at the Confusion of Babel?, in: Wolfgang Aaron (ed.), Nonverbal Behavior: Perspectives, Applications, Intercultural Insights, Lewiston, NY: Hogrefe 1984, p. 89.

  9. 9.

    Cf. Jürgen Streeck, Gesturecraft: The Manu-facture of Meaning, (Gesture Studies, Vol. 2), Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2009.

  10. 10.

    Hartwig Kalverkämper, Nonverbale Kommunikation, op. cit., p. 376.

  11. 11.

    Ekman cited in Adam Kendon, Did Gesture Have the Happiness to Escape the Curse at the Confusion of Babel?, op. cit., p. 94.

  12. 12.

    Cf. George L. Trager, Paralanguage: A first approximation, in: Studies in Linguistics, 13/1958, pp. 1–12.

  13. 13.

    Cf. Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension. New York: Anchor Books, 1966.

  14. 14.

    Cf. Ray L. Birdwhistell, Kinesics and Context. Essays on Body Motion Communication, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970.

  15. 15.

    Cf. Hartwig Kalverkämper, Nonverbale Kommunikation, op. cit., pp. 374–375.

  16. 16.

    Ibid., p. 376.

  17. 17.

    Patterson cited in Michael L. Hecht/Peter A. Andersen/Sidney A. Ribeau, The Cultural Dimensions of Nonverbal Communication, in: Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication, Newbury Park: Sage, 1989, p. 165.

  18. 18.

    Cf. Adam Kendon, On the Origins of Modern Gesture Studies, loc. cit.

  19. 19.

    Cf. Hartwig Kalverkämper, Nonverbale Kommunikation, op. cit., p. 379.

  20. 20.

    Cf. Adam Kendon, Did Gesture Have the Happiness to Escape the Curse at the Confusion of Babel? loc. cit.

  21. 21.

    Cf. David Matsumoto/Hyisung C. Hwang, Culture and Nonverbal Communication, in: Judith A. Hall/Mark L. Knapp (eds.), Nonverbal Communication. (Handbooks of Communication Science [HoCS], Vol. 2), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013, pp. 697–728.

  22. 22.

    Ibid., p. 704.

  23. 23.

    Cf. Ibid., p. 700.

  24. 24.

    Adam Kendon, Did Gesture Have the Happiness to Escape the Curse at the Confusion of Babel?, op. cit., pp. 98–99.

  25. 25.

    Cf. Ibid., p. 90.

  26. 26.

    For instance, John D. Bonvillian/Vicky L. Ingram/Brendan M. McCleary, Observations on the Use of Manual Signs and Gestures in the Communicative Interactions Between Native Americans and Spanish Explorers of North America: The Accounts of Bernal Díaz del Castillo and Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, in: Sign Language Studies 9/2009, pp. 132–165.

  27. 27.

    Hartwig Kalverkämper, Nonverbale Kommunikation, op. cit., p. 374.

  28. 28.

    David Matsumoto/Hyisung C. Hwang, Culture and Nonverbal Communication, op. cit., p. 707.

  29. 29.

    Adam Kendon, Did Gesture Have the Happiness to Escape the Curse at the Confusion of Babel? op. cit., pp. 99–100.

  30. 30.

    Max Kirch, Nonverbal Communication in Cross-Cultural Perspective, in: Robert J. Di Pietro/William Frawley/Alfred Wedel (eds.), The First Delaware Symposium on Language Studies. Selected Papers, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983, p. 102.

  31. 31.

    David Matsumoto/Hyisung C. Hwang, Culture and Nonverbal Communication, op. cit., p. 713.

  32. 32.

    Cf. Max Kirch, Nonverbal Communication in Cross-Cultural Perspective, op. cit., pp. 102–103.

  33. 33.

    Joel Sherzer cited in Adam Kendon, Did Gesture Have the Happiness to Escape the Curse at the Confusion of Babel?, op. cit., p. 97.

  34. 34.

    Cf. Henk Driessen, Gestured Masculinity: Body and Sociability in Rural Andalusia, in: Jan Bremmer/Herman Roodenburg (eds.), A Cultural History of Gesture. From Antiquity to the Present Day. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991, pp. 237–252.

  35. 35.

    Michael L. Hecht/Peter A. Andersen/Sidney A. Ribeau, The Cultural Dimensions of Nonverbal Communication, in: Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication, Newbury Park: Sage, 1989, p. 167.

  36. 36.

    Cf. Edward T. Hall, Beyond Culture, New York: Anchor Books, 1976; Idem., The Dance of Life: The other dimension of time, New York: Doubleday, 1984.

  37. 37.

    Cf. Michael L. Hecht et al., The Cultural Dimensions of Nonverbal Communication, op. cit., pp. 168; 176–177.

  38. 38.

    Cf. David Matsumoto/Hyisung C. Hwang, Culture and Nonverbal Communication, op. cit., p. 715.

  39. 39.

    Cf. Ibid., pp. 707–708.

  40. 40.

    Cf. Ibid., p. 712.

  41. 41.

    Cf. Ibid., pp. 709f.

  42. 42.

    Ibid., p. 714.

  43. 43.

    Keith Thomas, Introduction, in: Jan Bremmer/Herman Roodenburg (eds.), A Cultural History of Gesture. From Antiquity to the Present Day, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991, p. 11.

  44. 44.

    Cf. Hartwig Kalverkämper, Nonverbale Kommunikation, op. cit., pp. 380–381.

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Albert, M. (2019). Nonverbal Communication. In: Kühnhardt, L., Mayer, T. (eds) The Bonn Handbook of Globality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90377-4_38

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