Preface -- 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 Behavior: 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-Identiflcational Features 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 Facial Display of Humans and Other Primate Species -- Sources.