6: The organization of communicative action: rule-based or self-organizing knowledge?

  • Global rules of language and the structuring of communication
  • Narrative forms of communication
  • Local rules and the structuring of communication
  • Communicative action as patterning process
  • The thematic patterning of experience
  • Conclusion

The previous chapter argued that all human relationships are acts of communication between bodies in the medium of symbols having many aspects (reified, significant and proto) and it is in this communicative interaction that meaning is created and destroyed. In other words, communicative acts are embodied complex responsive processes of relating that create and destroy the knowledge enabling humans to act cooperatively in relation ...

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