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Pragmatics of Human Communication : A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies, and Paradoxes by Janet Beavin Bavelas, Paul Watzlawick and Don D. Jackson (1967, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393010090
ISBN-139780393010091
eBay Product ID (ePID)111545
Product Key Features
Number of Pages296 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePragmatics of Human Communication : a Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies, and Paradoxes
SubjectCommunication Studies, Interpersonal Relations
Publication Year1967
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Psychology
AuthorJanet Beavin Bavelas, Paul Watzlawick, Don D. Jackson
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight17 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal152.3/84
SynopsisAfter defining certain general concepts, the authors present basic characteristics of human communication and illustrate their manifestations and potential pathologies. Then the systemic aspects of human interactions that arise from the patterning of specific characteristics of communication are exemplified by the analysis of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? They then extend it to psychotherapeutic double binds and the technique of "prescribing the symptom." In conclusion, they postulate about man's communication with reality in the existential sense., In this study of pragmatic (behavioral) effects of human communication, disturbed behavior is seen as a communicative reaction to a particular situation rather than evidence of the disease of an individual mind., Communication is a relationship that is qualitatively different from the properties of the individuals involved. After defining certain general concepts, the authors present basic characteristics of human communication and illustrate their manifestations and potential pathologies. Then the systemic aspects of human interactions that arise from the patterning of specific characteristics of communication are exemplified by the analysis of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? They then extend it to psychotherapeutic double binds and the technique of prescribing the symptom. In conclusion, they postulate about man's communication with reality in the existential sense., Communication is a relationship that is qualitatively different from the "properties" of the individuals involved. After defining certain general concepts, the authors present basic characteristics of human communication and illustrate their manifestations and potential pathologies. Then the systemic aspects of human interactions that arise from the patterning of specific characteristics of communication are exemplified by the analysis of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? They then extend it to psychotherapeutic double binds and the technique of "prescribing the symptom." In conclusion, they postulate about man's communication with reality in the existential sense.
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