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The silent language

Title
The silent language / Edward T. Hall.
Author
Hall, Edward T. (Edward Twitchell), 1914-2009
Publication
Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1959]

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240 pages; 22 cm
Summary
In 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.
Subject
  • Intercultural communication
  • Communication
  • Misinformation
  • Communication
  • 77.63 social interaction and relations
  • Intercultural communication
  • Interculturele communicatie
  • Gedrag
  • Non-verbale communicatie
  • Amerikanen
  • Antropologia Cult Social
  • Psicologia Ambiental
  • Culture
  • Nonverbal communication
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-234) and index.
Contents
The voices of time -- What is culture? -- The vocabulary of culture -- The major triad -- Culture is communication -- The pervasive set -- The illusive isolate -- The organizing pattern -- Time talks: American accents -- Space speaks -- Loosening the grip -- Appendix I: Schema for social scientists -- Appendix II: A map of culture -- Appendix III: Three examples of change -- Appendix IV: Selected bibliography.
ISBN
  • 0385055498
  • 9780385055499
LCCN
59006359
OCLC
  • ocm00255430
  • 255430
  • SCSB-108602
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library