Pragmatics and Non-Verbal Communication

Examines non-verbal behaviours from a pragmatic perspective, establishing the role they play in our communication.

Tim Wharton is an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. He is a member of the International Pragmatics Association and is a regular contributor and reviewer for a number of international journals in language, philosophy and cognition. His previous book publications include contributions to The Routledge Encyclopedia of Pragmatics (2009), for which he was a consultant editor, and Pragmatics and Theory of Mind (2009). Prior to his academic career, he was a singer-songwriter and has written and recorded a number of songs which are still used as teaching resources for those learning English as a foreign language.

'... a most timely work ... not only does Wharton achieve an innovative, brave and systematic re-analysis in coherence with the cognitive theoretic pragmatic paradigm he endorses, but also he raises many intriguing and stimulating questions, and suggests new and challenging directions for future work which will spark off much discussion and research.' Lodz Papers in Pragmatics