Pragmatics of human communication : a study of interactional patterns, pathologies, and paradoxes

Author(s)

• Watzlawick, Paul
• Bavelas, Janet Beavin
• Jackson, Don D. (Don De Avila)

Bibliographic Information

Pragmatics of human communication : a study of interactional patterns, pathologies, and paradoxes

Paul Watzlawick, Janet Helmick Beavin, Don D. Jackson

Norton, c1967

Note

"References": p. 272-283

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

After defining certain general concepts, the authors present basic characteristics of human communication and illustrate their manifestations and potential pathologies. Then the systemic aspects of human interactions that arise from the patterning of specific characteristics of communication are exemplified by the analysis of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? They then extend it to psychotherapeutic double binds and the technique of "prescribing the symptom." In conclusion, they postulate about man's communication with reality in the existential sense.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BA01493188
• ISBN:
  • 0393010090
• LCCN: 67011095
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 296 p., [2] p. of plates
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BF637.C45
  • DC : 152.3/84
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Communication