46. Nonverbal communication: Research areas and approaches

Communication research in Asia has enjoyed rapid growth in the 20th century amid Asia’s economic boom, rapid growth in communication technologies and expanded university faculty. To explore the extent to which the rise of Asian communication research continued in the 21st century, a total of 558 publications on Asian communication research in 14 top-ranked SSCI communication journals from 1995 to 2014 were analyzed. Results indicate that the rise of Asian communication research is afoot in the 21st century. However, the results of also suggest patterns of unevenness of the published scholarship in terms of publishing year, journals, region, research topics and methodology: Asian communication research was dominated by East Asia, which was dominated by China, South Korea and Japan; in terms of research areas by topic, Asian communication scholarship focused on a few areas, including media effects, political communication, communication technology, and health communication; in terms of research methodologies, the quantitative approach was found to be dominant in the publications, which accounts for more than twice that of qualitative research.

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Contributions of the German ?Expression Psychology? to nonverbal communication research

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior ◽

10.1007/bf00987189 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 199-219 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jens Asendorpf

Keyword(s):

Nonverbal Communication ◽

Communication Research ◽

Expression Psychology

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Communicative competence in a group of visually impaired children

South African Journal of Communication Disorders ◽

10.4102/sajcd.v36i1.296 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Michelle Simpson ◽

Glenda Shapiro

Keyword(s):

Visual Impairment ◽

Nonverbal Communication ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Communicative Competence ◽

Verbal Communication ◽

Communication Research ◽

Therapeutic Implications ◽

Impaired Children ◽

Visually Impaired Children

Aspects of verbal and non-verbal communicative competence of five visually-impaired six and seven year old children were investigated. The Profile of Communicative Appropriateness (Penn, 1983) was used to assess communicative competence in one discourse interaction with a known interlocutor (mother). The results indicated that the subjects were predominantly appropriate in terms of verbal communication, and predominantly inappropriate in terms of non-verbal communication. Severity of visual impairment influenced performance in terms of nonverbal communication. Research and therapeutic implications are discussed.

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Political communication in and about crises. Potentials of a fragmented field

Studies in Communication Sciences ◽

10.24434/j.scoms.2019.01.009 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 131-152

Author(s):

Linards Udris

Keyword(s):

Political Communication ◽

Macro Level ◽

Communication Research ◽

Political Crises ◽

Research Areas ◽

Recent Scholarship ◽

Oriented Research

While there is growing interest in political crises in political communication research, crisis has not yet become a meaningful concept. Also, research tends to be reactive, which is suggested by an analysis of when and how the “crisis” label occurred in Swiss media from 2000 to 2018 and how recent scholarship examines political crises. This commentary gives an overview of different research areas within this fragmented “crisis” field and discusses a nuanced concept of crises that is more sensitive to the causes and dynamics of communicatively constructed crises on the macro level. It argues that a more systematic, more comparative and more macro-oriented research on political crises will help reduce the reactive nature of the field and enhance its public relevance.

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