The Silent LanguageIn the everyday but unspoken give-and-take of human relationships, the silent language plays a vitally important role. Here, a leading American anthropologist has analyzed the many ways in which people talk to one another without the use of works. The pecking order in a chicken yard, the fierce competition in a school playground, every unwitting gesture and action-this is the vocabulary of the silent language. According to Dr. Hall, the concepts of space and time are tools with which all human beings may transmit messages. Space, for example, is the outgrowth of an animal's instinctive defense of his lair and is reflected in human society by the office worker's jealous defense of his desk, or the guarded, walled patio of a Latin-American home. Similarly, the concept of time, varying from Western precision to Eastern vagueness, Is revealed by the businessman who pointedly keeps a client waiting, or the South Pacific islander who murders his neighbor for an injustice suffered twenty years ago. |
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... of materials ) In discussing the PMS one by one I will stress three things : How biology pervades each PMS , how each can be examined by itself , and how each gears into the over - all network of culture . 1. Interaction has its basis ...
... of materials ) In discussing the PMS one by one I will stress three things : How biology pervades each PMS , how each can be examined by itself , and how each gears into the over - all network of culture . 1. Interaction has its basis ...
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... of an operation . You can change the bore and stroke of a motor without changing the over - all design . You can alter the pitch of a propeller to con- form to special conditions , change the construction material for a house without ...
... of an operation . You can change the bore and stroke of a motor without changing the over - all design . You can alter the pitch of a propeller to con- form to special conditions , change the construction material for a house without ...
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... all its overtones . In considering man's total life as communication we see a spectrum covering a wide range of ... over - all duration . The study of government and political science may involve messages that take years to unfold . The ...
... all its overtones . In considering man's total life as communication we see a spectrum covering a wide range of ... over - all duration . The study of government and political science may involve messages that take years to unfold . The ...
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