Metacommunication and Its Tradition in Terms of Gregory Bateson's Criteria of Life: From the First Cybernetics Conference (1946) to the Publication of Angels Fear (1987)

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  • Gregory Batesonによる生の基準としてのメタ・コミュニケーションとその系譜―1946年3月第1回メイシー会議から1987年『天使のおそれ』まで―
  • Gregory Bateson ニ ヨル ナマ ノ キジュン ト シテ ノ メタ ・ コミュニケーション ト ソノ ケイフ : 1946ネン 3ガツ ダイ1カイ メイシー カイギ カラ 1987ネン 『 テンシ ノ オソレ 』 マデ

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<p>Focusing on the epistemology of Gregory Bateson, this paper discusses the essential and original meaning of the term metacommunication by tracing it in terms of Bateson's “criteria of life.” Ruesch & Bateson (1951) defined the concept of metacommunication as “communication about communication.” This later gained acceptance as a convenient concept among researchers in various fields. However, researchers have since used divergent definitions of the concept, and it has remained widely used as an undefined concept. This has rendered the original meaning and framework of the concept ambiguous, and resulted in transformations in the definition (Bavelas, 1995). This paper serves to clarify historic and well as theoretical steps, from the first cybernetics conference of March 1946 until the publication of Bateson & Bateson's book, Angels Fear, in 1987, with regards to how Bateson first conceived and subsequently developed the concept of metacommunication.</p>

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