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Janet Beavin Bavelas proposes that face-to-face dialogue is the primary site of language use, with unique features that make it the fastest, most precise, and most skillful activity that ordinary individuals do together. Writing for an inter-disciplinary readership, Bavelas draws on decades of experimental research combined with qualitative measures to illustrate the advantages of focusing on dialogue (rather than on individuals) and of using a multi-modal lens.
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Face-to-face dialogue is our basic form of language use. It is, and always has been, the only form of language use that spans all cultures and societies. Face-to-Face Dialogue: Theory, Research, and Applications focuses on the unique combination of features that make face-to-face dialogue the fastest, most precise, and most skillful activity that ordinary individuals do together.
Writing for an inter-disciplinary readership, Bavelas draws on her research program of over three decades to reveal the unique features of face-to-face dialogue. Unlike written or mediated forms, face-to-face dialogue uses both speech and co-speech gestures and also permits rapid-even simultaneous-exchanges. This book demonstrates the importance of focusing on interactions rather than individuals and on specific multi-modal acts rather than all nonverbal communication. Bavelas’s mixed research methods begin inductively, leading to experiments with qualitative measures. Second-by-second microanalysis uncovers details of how a dialogue works. By focusing on communication as joint action, Face-to-Face Dialogue refocuses the conversation around the science of human communication, with realizable practical applications for researchers and professionals alike.
Janet Bavelas is a true expert on face-to-face dialogue, and in this book she gives us a master class on the topic. She takes us beyond speaking and listening into the ‘space between’-into the dialogue itself. She takes us beyond transcriptions of talk into the microscopic timing and meaning of speech and gestures-both inside and outside the lab. She helps us appreciate what it really takes to understand people speaking face-to-face.”-Herbert H. Clark, Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Stanford University
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Preface by the Series Editor
Preface by the Author
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Appreciating Face-to-face Dialogue
PART I. CHANGING THE FOCUS
Chapter Two: From Individuals to Interactions
Chapter Three: From Nonverbal Communication to Co-speech Gesture
Chapter Four: Common Goals, Different Methods
PART II. INSIDE FACE-TO-FACE DIALOGUE
Chapter Five: Doing Dialogue
Chapter Six: Dialogue Favor Demonstrations
Chapter Seven: The Social Life of Hand Gestures
Chapter Eight: The Social Life of Facial Gestures
Chapter Nine: Meaning and Understanding as an Interactional Process
PART III. DIALOGUES IN APPLIED SETTINGS
Chapter Ten: Dialogues in Computer-Mediated Communication, Autism, and Medical Interactions
Chapter Eleven: Psychotherapy as Dialogue
Chapter Twelve: A Summary So Far
References
Index
