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Nonverbal communication

Here are entered works on methods of communication that do not involve speech, including sign language, smoke signals, etc.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Communication

• Expression

• Nonverbal communication -- Early works to 1800
• Body language
• Crying
• Laughter

• Non-verbal communication

• L'Art et l'Hypnose: Interprétation Plastique d'Oeuvres Littéraires et Musicales (second edition, in French; Geneva: Édition Atar; Paris: F. Alcan, n.d.), by Emile Magnin, contrib. by Théodore Flournoy, illust. by Frederic Boissonas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Chirologia: or, The Naturall Language of the Hand Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures Thereofl Whereunto Is Added Chironomia, or, the Art of Manuall Rhetoricke, Consisting of the Naturall Expressions, Digested by Art In the Hand, as the Chiefest Instrument of Eloquence, By Historicall Manifesto's Exemplified Out of the Authentique Registers of Common Life and Civill Conversation; With Types, or Chyrograms, a Long-wish'd for Illustration of This Argument (London: Printed by T. Harper, 1644), by J. B.
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Reflections Upon Laughter, and Remarks Upon the Fable of the Bees (Glasgow: Printed by R. Urie for D. Baxter, 1971), by Francis Hutcheson
  • microfilm scan (omitting some back matter): multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1971 facsmile reproduction: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Introduction to Kinesics (An Annotation System for Analysis of Body Motion and Gesture) (Washington: Dept. of State, Foreign Service Institute, 1952), by Ray L. Birdwhistell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), by Yolanda Covington-Ward (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine: ou, Analyse Électro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions (2 volumes in French; Paris: Ve Jules Renouard, 1862), by G.-B. Duchenne, contrib. by Charles Darwin
  • main volume (owned by Charles Darwin): multiple formats at archive.org
  • handwritten page in Darwin's volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • atlas volume (no title page; not a copy known to be owned by Darwin): multiple formats at archive.org
• Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine: ou, Analyse Électro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions (second edition; 2 volumes in French; Paris: J. B. Balliere et fils, 1876), by G.-B. Duchenne
  • main volume: multiple formats at Google
  • atlas volume: multiple formats at Google

• Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine: ou, Analyse Électro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions (2 volumes in French; Paris: Ve Jules Renouard, 1862), by G.-B. Duchenne, contrib. by Charles Darwin
  • main volume (owned by Charles Darwin): multiple formats at archive.org
  • handwritten page in Darwin's volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • atlas volume (no title page; not a copy known to be owned by Darwin): multiple formats at archive.org
• Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine: ou, Analyse Électro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions (second edition; 2 volumes in French; Paris: J. B. Balliere et fils, 1876), by G.-B. Duchenne
  • main volume: multiple formats at Google
  • atlas volume: multiple formats at Google

• The Smile: If You Can Do Nothing Else, You Can Smile (Boston: School of Expression, c1915), by S. S. Curry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Integrating Gestures: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), ed. by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• Die Gebärden der Griechen und Römer (in German; Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1890), by Karl Sittl
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Introduction to Kinesics (An Annotation System for Analysis of Body Motion and Gesture) (Washington: Dept. of State, Foreign Service Institute, 1952), by Ray L. Birdwhistell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chirologia: or, The Naturall Language of the Hand Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures Thereofl Whereunto Is Added Chironomia, or, the Art of Manuall Rhetoricke, Consisting of the Naturall Expressions, Digested by Art In the Hand, as the Chiefest Instrument of Eloquence, By Historicall Manifesto's Exemplified Out of the Authentique Registers of Common Life and Civill Conversation; With Types, or Chyrograms, a Long-wish'd for Illustration of This Argument (London: Printed by T. Harper, 1644), by J. B.
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Gesture and Rank in Roman Art; The Use of Gestures to Denote Status in Roman Sculpture and Coinage (New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1963), by Richard Brilliant (page images at HathiTrust)

• Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Helmuth Plessner, trans. by James Spencer Churchill and Marjorie Grene (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Laughing: A Psychology of Humor (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Norman N. Holland (page images at Florida)
• Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Helmuth Plessner, trans. by James Spencer Churchill and Marjorie Grene (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter (1971), by James R. Kincaid (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Smile: If You Can Do Nothing Else, You Can Smile (Boston: School of Expression, c1915), by S. S. Curry (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (in German; Detmold: Klingenberg, 1867), by Theodor Piderit (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Journal of Expression (partial serial archives)

• A Communications Theory of Urban Growth (Cambridge, MA: Pub. for the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University by MIT Press, 1962), by Richard L. Meier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on Project in Understanding New Media: Prepared and Published Pursuant to a Contract With the Office of Education, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare (typescript; 1960), by National Association of Educational Broadcasters and Marshall McLuhan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communicating Racism: Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1987), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Empire and Communications (1950), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Minerva's Owl (1947), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Elite Discourse and Racism (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1993), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (1979), by Joel de Rosnay, trans. by Robert Edwards (illustrated HTML with commentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)
• The Strategy of Culture (1952), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Perception and Communication (New York: Pergamon Press, Macmillan, c1958), by Donald E. Broadbent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Networking Game, by Patricia Wagner and Leif Smith (HTML at pattern.com)

• Australia in the Information Age (ACSJC occasional paper #14; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, c1992), by Christina Spurgeon and Paul Chadwick (PDF in Australia)

• Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in Contemporary China, by Ashley Esarey (PDF at freedomhouse.org)

• Cyberpragmatics: Internet-Mediated Communication in Context (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), by Francisco Yus (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age (Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics v4; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, c2021), ed. by Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Costa Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer, and Christian Schwarzenegger (PDF and EPub with commentary at De Gruyter)

• Liberated and Occupied Iraq: New Beginnings and Challenges for Press Freedom (2004), by Freedom House (U.S.) (PDF at unhcr.org)

• Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech (with workbooks; Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016), by Rachel Hilary Brown (PDF files with commentary at ushmm.org)

• International Journal of Communication (2007-) (full serial archives)
• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (full serial archives)
• Journal of Communication (partial serial archives)

• Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2012), by Mohan J. Dutta (PDF files with commentary at Purdue)
• Nonviolence Speaks: Communicating Against Repression (prepublication version, 2003), by Brian Martin and Wendy Varney (PDF in Australia)
• Communication and Democracy: Coincident Revolutions and the Emergent Dictator's Dilemma (1997), by Christopher R. Kedzie (HTML at rand.org)

• The Psychology of Cyberspace, by John R. Suler (illustrated HTML with commentary at truecenterpublishing.com)

• Gendering Talk (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c2003), by Robert Hopper (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Communication Conduct in an Island Community (1953 dissertation with new introduction; Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2022), by Erving Goffman, contrib. by Yves Winkin (PDF at Project MUSE)
• Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age (Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics v4; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, c2021), ed. by Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Costa Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer, and Christian Schwarzenegger (PDF and EPub with commentary at De Gruyter)

• The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2004), by Nancy C. Kranich (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.