Communicating
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-83780-4 (ISBN)
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Ruth Finnegan brings together research from linguistic and sensory anthropology, alternative approaches to 'material culture' and 'the body', non-verbal communication, cultural studies, computer-mediated communication, and illuminating work on animal communication. Examples from both western and non-western cultures together with plentiful illustrations enrich and deepen the analysis.
The book uncovers the amazing array of sounds, sights, smells, gestures, looks, movements, touches and material objects which humans use so creatively to interconnect both nearby and across space and time - resources consistently underestimated in those western ideologies that prioritise 'rationality' and referential language.
Focussing on embodied and material processes, and on practice rather than text, this comparative analysis challenges the underlying cognitive and word-centred model common to many approaches to communication.
The second edition of Communicating includes a new introduction, updates to take account of recent work, an additional chapter covering ethereal non-verbal non-bodily communicating such as telepathy and dreams, fresh illustrations, a new conclusion and updated bibliography.
This authoritative but accessible book is an essential transdisciplinary overview for researchers and advanced students in language and communication, anthropology and cultural studies.
Ruth Finnegan is Emeritus and Visiting Research Professor in Sociology at The Open University , UK. Her previous publications include Oral Literature in Africa (1970), Oral Poetry (1977/1992), Information Technology (1987), Literacy and Orality (1988), The Hidden Musicians (1989), Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts (1992), South Pacific Oral Traditions (1995), andTales of the City (1998).
Part 1 Foundations 1. Communicating Humans...but what does that mean? 2.How Can We Communicate? The Basic Resources of Humans and Other Animals Part II Channels of Communication 3. The Sounding World and its Creation 4. Shaping the Sights: vision and the communicating body 5. Creating and Sharing Sights: human arts and artefacts 6. Sensing the Odour 7. Communicating Touch Part III The Multiple Creativity in Human Communicating 8 . Communicating Through the Ether: a story of dreaming, death and the imaginary 9. A Mix of Arts 10. Through Space and Time
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.12.2013 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 50 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 670 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-83780-4 / 0415837804 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-83780-4 / 9780415837804 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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