TY - BOOK ID - 65557599 TI - Communication as gesture PY - 2019 SN - 1787565173 1787565157 1787565165 1787565181 9781787565159 9781787565173 9781787565166 PB - Bingley, UK DB - UniCat KW - Communication. KW - Communication, Primitive KW - Mass communication KW - Sociology KW - Digital media. KW - Mouvement KW - Mouvement (esthétique) KW - Gestes KW - Communication non verbale KW - Language Arts & Disciplines, Communication Studies. KW - Communication studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:65557599 AB - 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. ER -