[PDF] Dynamics Of Human Communication eBook

Author : Gail E. Myers
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780070442313

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Adopting an experiential approach, The Dynamics of Communication is written according to the premise that the only way to truly understand core communications principles is by practice. Therefore, the book integrates many exercises and examples. The new edition has been thoroughly updated and reorganized.

Author : Michael Tomasello
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0262515202

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A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian view. Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction. Tomasello argues that human cooperative communication rests on a psychological infrastructure of shared intentionality (joint attention, common ground), evolved originally for collaboration and culture more generally. The basic motives of the infrastructure are helping and sharing: humans communicate to request help, inform others of things helpfully, and share attitudes as a way of bonding within the cultural group. These cooperative motives each created different functional pressures for conventionalizing grammatical constructions. Requesting help in the immediate you-and-me and here-and-now, for example, required very little grammar, but informing and sharing required increasingly complex grammatical devices. Drawing on empirical research into gestural and vocal communication by great apes and human infants (much of it conducted by his own research team), Tomasello argues further that humans' cooperative communication emerged first in the natural gestures of pointing and pantomiming. Conventional communication, first gestural and then vocal, evolved only after humans already possessed these natural gestures and their shared intentionality infrastructure along with skills of cultural learning for creating and passing along jointly understood communicative conventions. Challenging the Chomskian view that linguistic knowledge is innate, Tomasello proposes instead that the most fundamental aspects of uniquely human communication are biological adaptations for cooperative social interaction in general and that the purely linguistic dimensions of human communication are cultural conventions and constructions created by and passed along within particular cultural groups.

Author : Howard Giles
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781433103971

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The Dynamics of Intergroup Communication provides a timely and comprehensive review of work at the intersection of intergroup relations and communication. Chapters written by experts in the field overview current research and present directions for the future. The book is divided into sections addressing specific groups, intergroup communication processes, and core contexts in which intergroup communication occurs. Written in an engaging and accessible manner, and featuring short yet detailed chapters, the book should appeal to scholars looking for a broad overview of this growing area, as well as being appropriate for use as a text in undergraduate and graduate classes.

Author : Carley H. Dodd
Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Culture
ISBN :

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The Dynamics of Intercultural Communication provides a comprehensive introduction to intercultural communication that utilizes a combination of approaches. An interpersonal skills approach shows students how to improve their communication effectiveness, and a persuasive approach provides strategies, theories, and methods for understanding task and relationship development.