LINGUIST List: Vol-32-2765. Sat Aug 28 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 32.2765, Books: Holisms of communication: McElvenny, Ploder (eds.)
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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 18:07:43
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Holisms of communication: McElvenny, Ploder (eds.)
Title: Holisms of communication
Subtitle: The early history of audio-visual sequence analysis
Series Title: History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences
Publication Year: 2021
Publisher: Language Science Press
http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/311
Editor: James McElvenny
Editor: Andrea Ploder
Electronic: ISBN: 9783961103218 Pages: 292 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access
Abstract:
A central pillar of contemporary communication research is the analysis of
filmed interactions between people. The techniques employed in such analysis
first took on a recognizably modern form in the 1970s, but their roots go back
to the earliest days of motion picture technology in the late nineteenth
century. This book presents original essays accompanied by written responses
which together create a dialogue exploring early efforts at audio-visual
sequence analysis and their common goal to capture the "whole" of the
communicative situation.
The first three chapters of this volume look at the film-based research of
Gestalt psychologists in Berlin as well as psychologists in the orbit of Karl
and Charlotte Bühler in Vienna in the first decades of the twentieth century.
Most of these figures – along with many other Central European scholars of
this era – were driven into exile in the United States after the rise of
National Socialism in the 1930s. This scientific migration led to the
cross-pollination of communication studies in America, an outcome visible in
the leading project in interaction research of the mid-twentieth century, the
Natural History of an Interview. The following two chapters examine this
project in its historical context. The volume closes with a critical edition
of a treasure from the archives: the transcript of a speech delivered by Ray
Birdwhistell, a key participant in the Natural History of an Interview project
and founder of kinesics.
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Historical Linguistics
Philosophy of Language
Written In: English (eng)
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