The Age of a Baby

Traditionally, we have regarded communication as that process by which one individual imparted knowledge to another. Many scholars have felt that an exhaustive measurement of communication could be accomplished through so-called black box research. By this procedure one subject is given a set of cle...

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Published inKinesics and Context p. 11
Main Author RAY L. BIRDWHISTELL
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 01.01.2011
Subjects
Anatomy
Animals
Applied sciences
Arm
Behavioral sciences
Biological sciences
Biology
Business
Children
Clothing industry
Communication systems
Communications technology
Consumer goods industries
Diapers
Extremities
Hands
Human behavior
Human populations
Humans
Ideographs
Industrial sectors
Industry
Infants
Language
Linguistics
Mammals
Manufacturing industries
Mothers
Orthographies
Persons
Pictographs
Population studies
Primates
Social behavior
Social interaction
Social sciences
Technology
Under garments
Upper extremity
Women
Zoology
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Summary:Traditionally, we have regarded communication as that process by which one individual imparted knowledge to another. Many scholars have felt that an exhaustive measurement of communication could be accomplished through so-called black box research. By this procedure one subject is given a set of clearly limited pieces of information which he is instructed to impart to another. It is recognized that there are certain external interferences in this process. These interferences, called “noise,” are kept in mind when the receiver subject is tested to determine the proportion of the original message which he has received. The data derived from this
ISBN:0812210123
9780812210125