Elements of Non-Verbal Communication in the Plays of George Bernard Shaw

In this new multidimensional approach to the subject of non-verbal communication Elements of non-verbal Communication in the Plays of George Bernard Shaw brings together a great deal of original work which includes descriptions of new experimental methods that are especially suited to this field, detailed findings of studies scattered throughout the plays of Shaw, and the integration of these findings within a compact framework. In the past several attempts have been made to study G.B. Shaw as a playwright but none of these have successfully approached Shaw from the point of view of non-verbal communication. However, a play cannot be staged without assistance of non-verbal communication. The linguists call them extra linguistic correlates which correlate gesture, body part, sign language haptics proxemics etc. in clarity and accuracy to the actions of the characters in the play. An attempt has been made in this book to explain how non-verbal language of various characters become essential in order to serve complete meaning of verbal utterances.