The Messages We Send: Social Signals and Storytelling

by G.R.F. Ferrari

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198798423
• ISBN13: 9780198798422
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"