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CHAPTER 2
A Framework for Studying
Human Multimodal
Communication
Jens Allwood
1. Introduction
This chapter provides an overview of some of the most important
functions and processes involved in human face-to-face communication.
Special attention is given to multimodal communication. It also gives an
overview of the most important factors (e.g. social activity, personality
and national-ethnic culture) that influence human communication. The
chapter provides definitions for communication, language and culture.
It discusses the contents of communication and the dynamics of dialog
and presents a model of embodied communication, involving several
levels of awareness and intentionality. Finally, there is a discussion of
the relation between face-to-face communication and communication
technology.
2. A Challenge
Due to greater requirement of communication technology in our lives,
more issues of human-human communication are being studied now,
than ever before.
Keeping in mind that there is still a lot we do not know about
human-human communication, the goal of this chapter is to
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