ABSTRACT
This chapter describes some of the main channels of communication interaction. Explorations of the interconnections of the channels of human communication is a fairly recent endeavour. The chapter reported some research into the inter-connections in time between some aspects of nonverbal behaviour and spontaneous speech in conversation. It suggested that there are strong inter-connections between the planning units underlying spontaneous speech, as reflected in the patterns of hesitations, and the organization of these nonverbal forms of behaviour. The empirical work of Condon and Ogston was concentrated at the syllabic level of speech and the lowest level of nonverbal behaviour. Their technique involved micro-analysis of sound movie films of interaction. They transcribed all of the phonemes of speech and the behaviour of extensive parts of the body such as the head, eyes, brows, upper lip, lower lip, trunk, right shoulder, right elbow, right wrist, first, second and third finger on right hand and right thumb on to complex and detailed charts.
