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Social Communication

Social Communication is a developmental and linguistic process involving the functional use of verbal and nonverbal language within social contexts to achieve communicative intentions, distinguished from other language domains by its emphasis on pragmatic competence, reciprocal interaction, and context-sensitive adaptation.

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Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction

Donald Horton, Robert Wohl · Psychiatry · 1956 · 4K citations

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The Repertoire of Nonverbal Behavior: Categories, Origins, Usage, and Coding

Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen · Semiotica · 1969 · 3.3K citations

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Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication

Joseph Bosco, John J. Gumperz, Dell Hymes · TESOL Quarterly · 1973 · 3K citations

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Pragmatics of Human Communication

George Gunkle, Paul Watzlawick, Janet Helmick Beavin et al. · Educational Theatre Journal · 1975 · 2.9K citations

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<b>Sociolinguistic patterns</b> . By William Labov. (Conduct and communication, 4.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. Pp. xviii, 344. $5.95.

Régna Darnell · Language · 1975 · 2.5K citations

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Authors

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  1. JK
    Judee K. Burgoon

    University of Arizona, United States

    35 publications · 7.7K citations

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    Joseph B. Walther

    Michigan State University, United States

    29 publications · 9.7K citations

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  3. MT
    Michael Tomasello

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    29 publications · 3.3K citations

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  4. JT
    Jeffrey T. Hancock

    Stanford University, United States

    25 publications · 4K citations

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  5. HG
    Howard Giles

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    25 publications · 2.8K citations

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Institutions

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  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    44 h-index

    176 publications

    17.4K citations

  2. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

    44 h-index

    268 publications

    15.6K citations

  3. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    43 h-index

    120 publications

    9.5K citations

  4. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    43 h-index

    138 publications

    16.9K citations

  5. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    43 h-index

    129 publications

    14.6K citations

  6. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    42 h-index

    124 publications

    14K citations

  7. Michigan State University

    East Lansing, United States

    41 h-index

    129 publications

    9.5K citations

  8. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    41 h-index

    132 publications

    20.2K citations

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  1. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

    133 publications · 13.4K citations

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  2. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    117 publications · 15.5K citations

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  3. Human Communication Research

    121 publications · 15.3K citations

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  4. Child Development

    136 publications · 11.4K citations

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  5. Computers in Human Behavior

    84 publications · 8.8K citations

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