Isbn: 9780198798422 - messages we send: social signals and storytelling (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 2017. xii, 190pp. Minor shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket. Both book and jacket are otherwise in excellent condition with no inscriptions. All contents are tight and clean. "G. R. F. Ferrari offers a new framework for understanding different ways in which we communicate with each other. He explores the idea of "intimations": social interactions that approach outright communication but do not quite reach it. The metaphor from which he starts is that of a communicative scale or switch, which goes from "off" (no communication intended) to fully "on" (outright communication). Intimations lie in between. Three intermediate positions are identified: quarter-on, half-on, and three-quarters-on. Progression along the communicative scale is determined by the extent to which what comes across in the transmission is required to come across by recognition of the intention of the transmitting party.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 190 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.