Communicating, 3rd Edition

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Half-Title
3. Endorsements
4. Title
5. Copyright
6. Dedication
7. CONTENTS
8. List of figures
9. Preface to the third edition
10. Acknowledgements
11. PART I First questions
    1. 1 Humans communicate – what does that mean?
       1. Communication and human interconnectedness: Four examples
       2. How do we do it?
       3. What other perspectives are there on communication?
          1. Is communication “the message”?
          2. Is communication signs and codes?
          3. Is it “thoughts” or “mental representations”?
          4. Or, better, evolutionary narratives, comparative perspectives, or binary models?
          5. Communicating is – ?
       4. “Humans”: Who are they?
    2. 2 Communicative resources of humans and others
       1. Audio-visual creatures
       2. The human senses
       3. “Non-verbal” expression and the communicating body
       4. “Media”, artefacts, and human-made arts
       5. Channels of animal communication
       6. The communicating human animal
12. PART II The senses
    1. 3 The sounding world and its creation
       1. The sonic resources for animal communicating
       2. … and the human uses
       3. The arts and organisation of acoustic communication
       4. Sonic creation and experience in a wealth of cultures
       5. The limits and versatilities of audition
    2. 4 Communicating touch
       1. The tactile channel and animal communication
       2. Human touching as communication
       3. Organising and regulating tactile communication
       4. Systems of tactile communication and their extension over time and space
       5. Conclusion
    3. 5 Sensing the odour
       1. Smelling and tasting: Resources for human communicating?
       2. Animal uses of smell
       3. Olfaction and human communication: The odorous body and its ordering
       4. Olfactory arts and artefacts
       5. Olfaction as human
    4. 6 Enacting the sights: Vision and the communicating body
       1. Vision in animal and human communication
       2. Using the visible body
       3. Seeing spatial relations
       4. Movement, gestures, and “sign languages”
       5. The shaped and adorned body
       6. Humans’ embodied visual resources
    5. 7 Creating and sharing sights: Human arts and artefacts
       1. The sight of objects
       2. Pictorial and graphic sights
       3. The roles of vision in human cultures
13. PART III And more
    1. 8 Beyond the senses
       1. From telephones and radio waves to the metaverse
       2. Outside the senses
       3. Through the ether
       4. Communication, death, and dying
       5. Dreams and dreaming
       6. More dreams
       7. Senders and receivers
       8. “Telepathy” and paranormal communication
       9. Shared consciousness
    2. 9 A mix of arts
       1. The interwoven modes of human communicating
       2. More, and less
       3. Multiplicity and human interconnectedness
       4. A varied mix
    3. 10 Through space and time
       1. Spanning distance, spatial and temporal
       2. What now?
       3. Humans as communicators
       4. Where are we?
14. PART IV Last questions
    1. 11 Then, now, and on
       1. Communicating humans – again
       2. Speaking and writing
       3. Which was first?
       4. What of humans and animals?
       5. What next for human communicating?
15. Bibliography
16. Index