Table of Contents “...-- Properties of coding system -- Analogic versus digital coding -- Grammar -- Pragmatic and dialogic rules -- Polysemy -- Universality versus culture- and context-bound meaning -- Displacement -- Reflexivity -- Prevarication -- Iconicity -- Simultaneity -- Directness of sensory stimulation -- Neurophysiology of nonverbal encoding and decoding -- A picture is worth a thousand words -- Gales of laughter greet President's speech -- Nonverbal behavior and message production -- Message generation -- Semantic encoding -- Is it in the look of your face, the wave of your hand, the tone of your voice? ...”