Product Description

This book explores the key features of the skills we use in communicating and provides a framework for understanding how we use language and body language to communicate with others in every day situations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #337258 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

From the Back Cover
How do people communicate with each other in their face-to-face meetings and conversations? Can we trust our first impressions of people, or should we be more cautious? What evidence is there that our gestures and facial expressions reveal to others what we really mean?

Interpersonal Communication provides a framework for understanding how we communicate with others in everyday situations. Peter Hartley explores the key features of the skills we use in communicating with other people, and provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the hows and whys of interpersonal communication .

This fully expanded and revised second edition
outlines the main components and distinctive characteristics of interpersonal communication;
offers detailed analysis of communication processes, considering their everyday applications and implications;
includes new material on contemporary issues in communication studies such as race and gender;
explains the debate over differences between male and female communica

About the Author
Peter Hartley is Senior Academic in Communication Studies at the School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University.