The Messages We Send: Social Signals and Storytelling

Ferrari, G. R. F.

ISBN 10: 0198798423 / ISBN 13: 9780198798422

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, etc, 2017

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2017. xii, 190pp. Minor shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket. Both book and jacket are otherwise in excellent condition with no inscriptions. All contents are tight and clean. "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 positions are identified: quarter-on, half-on, and three-quarters-on. Progression along the communicative scale is determined by the extent to which what comes across in the transmission is required to come across by recognition of the intention of the transmitting party.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Messages We Send: Social Signals and Storytelling
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, etc
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198798423
• ISBN 13: 9780198798422
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy & Related

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Synopsis

G. R. F. Ferrari offers a new framework for understanding 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. He considers poetry, storytelling, and fashion as examples of different levels of communication.

About the Author

G. R. F. Ferrari, University of California, Berkeley, Melpomene Professor of Classics

G.R.F. ("John") Ferrari hs been a professor at the Department of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, for over twenty-five years. His principal interests are in philosophical aesthetics and in ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato.