Ways of CommunicatingD. H. Mellor Ways of Communicating is a stimulating exploration of the single most powerful force that gives humankind its control over the natural world--the communication among us. So integral a part of everyday life as to be taken for granted, yet so multi-faceted as to be notoriously slippery to describe and analyze, the world of communication is treated here from the standpoint of the arts quite as much as the sciences. Speech and body language, fiction and music, communication by neural networks within the brain and by satellite around the globe, all are considered together to give a fascinating view of this elusive aspect of our common humanity. Contributors include P.N. Johnson-Laird on The Nature of Communication; Horace Barlow on The Brain; Patrick Bateson on Animals; Noam Chomsky on Language; D.H. Mellor on Truth; David Lodge on The Novel; Jonathan Miller on Communication without Words; Alexander Goehr on Music; and John Alvey on Telecommunications. |
Contents
List of contributors S | 1 |
Communication and representation within the brain | 14 |
Animal communication | 35 |
Language and mind | 56 |
Telling the truth | 81 |
The novel as communication | 96 |
Communication without words | 113 |
Communication and technology | 143 |
Acknowledgements | 161 |
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A. A. Milne action ALEXANDER GOEHR bandwidth bees brain British Telecom called Cambridge cats chip Chomsky cognitive complex computational convey cortex course dance DAVID LODGE discourse Eeyore effect evolution evolved example experience expressions fact fiction Figure frequencies function ganglion cells Goffmann grammar HORACE BARLOW Hubel human I-language individual inference internal representation interpretation language design language faculty lexical linguistic listener means mind/brain munication narrative natural language neocortex neurons NOAM CHOMSKY non-verbal normal notion novel observation optical fibre parsing particular PATRICK BATESON perceived perform pheromone Pooh's problem procedure projective zone properties question Rabbit reader receptive field recognise response retina S-structure sense signals specific speech structural description symbolic synapses telephone television tell Pooh tell the truth theory there's honey tion transmitted trigger features true belief understanding University of Cambridge visual cortex visual field words
References to this book
Communicating: The Multiple Modes of Human Interconnection Ruth H. Finnegan No preview available - 2002 |