COMST 325 Lecture 8: 325 Lecture 8
20 Sep 2016
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Topic / subject matter: forward / backward shifts (based on interest and comfort, personal / impersonal topics, positive, negative, neutral comments. Regulatory: signals attention, opens and closes lines of communication. Example: waiter / bartender / pedestrian: use gaze to indicate interest or need to communicate: length of glance determines intentions. Looking up and down others" body indication of attraction: less eye contact when you are ready to end encounter, gaze demands response. If you are the only person in class who meets the teacher"s gaze, they will call on you (bad if you didn"t do homework: speakers gaze less than listeners, speaker dictates when listener can participate / respond. Monitoring: fine line between monitoring and watching Language and social interaction, 38 (4), 417-449: monitoring + expression. Cognitive: averted gaze while processing, allocate attention internally, reflective questions linked with more averted gaze. Expressive: sometimes included in functions of gaze. Touch begins very early in life: first experience through touch.
