Communication as gesture : media(tion), meaning, & movement First Edition. Edition Schandorf 9781787565166, 1787565165

Communication as gesture : media(tion), meaning, & movement First Edition. Edition Schandorf – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781787565166,1787565165

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1787565165
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1787565166
• Author: Schandorf

While the concept of communication has long been bound to a reductive model of the exchange of information, very few scholars of communication would argue that these assumptions are realistic, without a long list of qualifying caveats. But the concept of communication, built from the integration of semiotic signification with the idea of information as the ‘carrier’ of transmitted meaning, is so deeply ingrained and simple that even displacing it can seem futile, if not absurd. Nevertheless, these foundational assumptions tightly constrain the ways in which any interactional phenomena can be conceived–and constraints upon our ways of understanding communication drastically limit our capacity to understand our worlds and the social processes that generate them, at any scale or level of abstraction.
Communication as Gesture traces the concept of communication from its roots in classical rhetoric to its integration in structural linguistics, semiotics, information theory, and cybernetics, integrating perspectives from contemporary rhetorical theory, relational psychology, interactional sociology, philosophy, cognitive linguistics, discourse studies, multimodal semiotics, and more. Because so much of our contemporary world is lived with and through digital media technologies, the study of new media and social media provides a rich illustration of the constraints imposed by our reductive assumptions–and hints at the possibilities generated by rethinking them. The gesture theory of communication introduced presents a dimensional account of communication that is intuitively accessible and theoretically rich while overturning reductive assumptions of the linear character of interaction.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Digital Discourse

Chapter 2 Information & Meaning: The Semiotics of Cybernetics

Chapter 3 Making Meaning: Putting Space in Place

Chapter 4 Rhetoric as the Making of Meaning

Chapter 5 Dimensions of Interaction

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