Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: Current Issues in the Study of "Nonverbal Communication" -- Part One: Theoretical and Methodological Issues -- The Repertoire of Nonverbal Behavior: Categories, Origins, Usage, and Coding -- Forms and Functions of Nonverbal Communication in the Novel: A New Perspective of the Author-Character-Reader Relationship -- Toward a Mathematization of Kinetic Behavior: A Review of Paul Bouissac's La Mesure des Gestes -- Maximizing Replicability in Describing Facial Behavior -- Part Two: Organization of Behavior in Social Encounters -- Patterns of Public Behaviour: Collision Avoidance on a Pedestrian Crossing -- Greeting a Stranger: Some Commonly Used Nonverbal Signals of Aversiveness -- Handwork as Ceremony: The Case of the Handshake -- Kinesic Signals at Utterance Boundaries in Preschool Children -- The Different Functions of Gaze -- Sequential Temporal Patterns of Speech and Gaze in Dialogue -- Some Functions of the Face in a Kissing Round -- The Case of the Apple Turnover: An Experiment in Multichannel Communication Analysis -- Part Three: Gesture -- Gesture Inventories : Fieldwork Methodology and Problems -- Communicative Body Movements : American Emblems -- Contrastive-Identification Feature of Persian Gesture -- Physical versus Semantic Classification of Nonverbal Forms: A Cross-Cultural Experiment -- Facial Emblems of "Right" and "Wrong": Topographical Analysis and Derivation of a Recognition Test -- Tongue Showing: A Facil Display of Humans and Other Primate Species -- Sources