PSYCHOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION
Academic Year 2015/2016 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff: Concetta PIRRONE
Credit Value: 6
Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Credit Value: 6
Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Detailed Course Content
The main aim is to provide the basic elements of communication's psychology and the different modes of communication, verbal and nonverbal. Focus will be issues relating to major theoretical paradigms of communication, animal communication, the meaning, intentionality of communication, discourse analysis and conversation, pathological communication, communication in groups and organizations.
Textbook Information
1. Luigi Anolli, “Fundamentals of psychology of communication” – Il Mulino, 2006 (Chap. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII).
2. Michael Argyle “BODY AND HIS LANGUAGE” Study on the non-verbal communication, Second Edition, Zanichelli. (The whole book except chapters:2)