The Language of Gaze

Auteur

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.

Résumé
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.

Contenu

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

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