Some Tentative Axioms of Communication

Watzlawick, Paul; Beavin, Janet Helmick; Jackson, Don D.

doi:10.4324/9781315080918-7

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“…Even though reflective self-presentation is a performative act determined by individually and socially ascribed roles and values (Azariah, 2016; Goffman, 1959), it is apparent that we do not reflect upon how we present ourselves in each and every moment of our lives. ‘Activity or inactivity, words or silence all have message value: they influence others and these others, in turn, cannot not respond to these communications and are thus themselves communicating’ (Watzlawick et al, 2007: 275). In other words: We communicate ourselves to others, even if we do not mean to do so.…”

Section: Theoretical Implications and Limitationsmentioning

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Conspicuous souvenirs: Analysing touristic self-presentation through souvenir display

Kuhn

2020

Tourist Studies

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Holiday travel offers the opportunity for self-definition and enhancement of social prestige. Due to the growing importance of self-expressive values within the ongoing course of individualisation, tourists increasingly make use of their travel experience to self-present in a positive way. Yet, tourism studies have not investigated what tourists actually want to communicate about themselves when representing their travel experience through the display of souvenirs. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews, this study examines touristic self-expression and exposes the self-concepts attached to and communicated through the display of souvenirs as material symbols of travel experience. Results show that tourists often have a clear intention to express positive self-messages when showing their souvenirs to others. Souvenirs are used to represent personal character traits, social affiliation to in-groups and neo-tribes, and to demonstrate individual travel history. This article adds to the discussion of individual ascription of meaning to the tourist experience and souvenirs, and gives an insight to the function of souvenirs for self-expression and social exchange.

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Section: Theoretical Implications and Limitationsmentioning

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Conspicuous souvenirs: Analysing touristic self-presentation through souvenir display

Kuhn

2020

Tourist Studies

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“…Based on Tinbergen (1953) and Lorenz (1952), as well as his own research, Bateson (1955) has shown that vocalizations, intention movements, and mood signs of animals are analogic communications by which they define the nature of their relationships, rather than making denotative statements about objects. [93] cannot be done, then the garbage going in becomes the garbage coming out.…”

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Paleoanthropology of Consciousness, Culture and Oral Language

Messori¹

2019

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It is presented an updated version of my previous paleoanthropological interpretation of the available utilitarian and non-utilitarian Paleolithic finds (Messori 2016), aimed at establishing the earliest human developmental stages of consciousness, culture and oral language. The environmental transformations to which Earth has gone to meet from its formation to the Archean period of the Precambrian Era, during which the terrestrial proto-biological phenomenon develops, are briefly discussed. By following the quantum elec-and independent psychic complex called epigenetic function of the real, or consciousness, the essential requirement for there to be a fully established cultural production. The slow process that went from a musically established sound emission (second half of Lower Paleolithic), to a fully syntactical and semantics codification of a suitably emitted and articulated range of sounds, that through time became speech communication, namely oral language (first half of Middle Paleolithic), is discussed. The slow process to which oral language has gone from acquiring the power to re-create the world by naming it-semantic baptism-as an act of legitimation of reality (Upper Paleolithic), to becoming an instrument of power in the hands of the male gender (Neolithic), which thanks to it tames Nature and subjugates the generatrix power of women's uterus (where the pneuma is transmuted into offspring by which the progeny is re-created) to the generatrix power of oro-larynx (where the pneuma is transmuted into speech by which the World is re-created), is also discussed.

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“…First, communication has been defined as a context-dependent construct, which is closely related to well-being and distinct from functional linguistic skills of an individual [15, 23, 24]. In line with Watzlawick et al’s widely acknowledged first axiom [35] “one cannot not communicate” (p. 30), it can be assumed that even patients with strongly impaired linguistic skills are able to communicate, albeit by other channels. Second, communication has been considered as a process that can be divided into four stages: presentation, attention, comprehension, and remembering [29].…”

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“…At the level of presentation, for example, word finding failures, sentence fragments as well as reductions in grammatical complexity represent linguistic characteristics of people with dementia [22, 26]. Third, the second axiom of Watzlawick et al [35] proposes a content versus a relationship aspect. The content aspect refers to the production and understanding of mainly verbal utterances; the relationship aspect refers to the underlying affective qualities of communication conveyed by mainly nonverbal stylistic (e.g., speech rate) and tonal features of communication (e.g., emotional tone of voice; [11]).…”

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Communication behavior of cognitively impaired older inpatients

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Background and objectiveAcutely ill older patients with cognitive impairment represent a major subgroup in acute care hospitals. In this context, communication plays a crucial role for patients’ well-being, healthcare decisions, and medical outcomes. As validated measures are lacking, we tested the psychometric properties of an observational instrument to assess Communication Behavior in Dementia (CODEM) in the acute care hospital setting. As a novel feature, we were also able to incorporate linguistic and social-contextual measures.Material and methodsData were drawn from a cross-sectional mixed methods study that focused on the occurrence of elderspeak during care interactions in two German acute care hospitals. A total of 43 acutely ill older patients with severe cognitive impairment (CI group, Mage ± SD = 83.6 ± 5.7 years) and 50 without cognitive impairment (CU group, Mage ± SD = 82.1 ± 6.3 years) were observed by trained research assistants during a standardized interview situation and rated afterwards by use of CODEM.ResultsFactor analysis supported the expected two-factor solution for the CI group, i.e., a verbal content and a nonverbal relationship aspect. Findings of the current study indicated sound psychometric properties of the CODEM instrument including internal consistency, convergent, divergent, and criterion validity.ConclusionCODEM represents a reliable and valid tool to examine the communication behavior of older patients with CI in the acute care hospital setting. Thus, CODEM might serve as an important instrument for researcher and healthcare professionals to describe and improve communication patterns in this environment.

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Some Tentative Axioms of Communication

Cited by 55 publications

References 7 publications

Conspicuous souvenirs: Analysing touristic self-presentation through souvenir display

Conspicuous souvenirs: Analysing touristic self-presentation through souvenir display

Paleoanthropology of Consciousness, Culture and Oral Language

Communication behavior of cognitively impaired older inpatients

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