An intimate account of an anthropologist's relationship with his non-verbal son and how it
has shaped and transformed his understanding of closeness and communication. Home …

This ethnographic narrative explores “listening” as a cultural form of communication. The
investigation examines both linguistic references to this form and its actual nonverbal …

Abstract In Borderlands/La Frontera Gloria Anzaldúa describes her experience undergoing
a dental procedure as a battle between her wild tongue and the dentist. Beginning with a …

We create worlds with our words. Words create communicative ecosystems, which in turn
give us a sense of belonging to a certain kind of a discursive normativity and provide us with …

Deferred decision; delayed judgement. This was the way that the writer responded to being
in pain. Submitting to the medical gaze would be sure to confirm what he suspected all …

It was 1991 and the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies was under way.
The Women's Health Clinic in Winnipeg had funding for research to document women's …

Objects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate
to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality …

How do people organize their body movement and talk when they interact with one another
in the material world? How do they coordinate linguistic structures with bodily resources …

A revealing memoir of a family and a “wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint
of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew”(Ilan Stavans, author of On …

Exploring the Relationship Between Nonverbal and Verbal Behaviour on Rapport and Dyadic
Cooperation Page 1 Background Rapport – a definition The goal of an investigative interview is …