"What We Need is Communication": "Communication" as a Cultural Category in Some American Speech.

Katriel, Tamar; Philipsen, Gerry

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Publication Date: 1981-Dec

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"What We Need is Communication": "Communication" as a Cultural Category in Some American Speech.

Katriel, Tamar; Philipsen, Gerry

Communication Monographs, v48 n4 p300-17 Dec 1981

Explores the meaning of the term "communication" vs. "mere talk" in selected instances of American speech about interpersonal life. Analyzes two case studies and transcripts of the Phil Donahue Show. Also discusses communication as ritual and ethnography as a form of communication inquiry. (PD)

Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Context, Ethnography, Interpersonal Relationship, Programing, Self Concept, Semantics, Speech Communication, Television

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Language: English

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