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Communication

Definition

 

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language
languaging
linguistic domain
messages
receivers
symbol
senders

 

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Encyclopedia Autopoietica
International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics

 

Principia Cybernetica (web)

Encyclopedia Autopoietica
Those "... coordinated behaviors mutually triggered among the members of a social unity." (Maturana & Varela, 1992, p. 193) The phenomenon ascribed to the inter-organism behavioral coordination which an observer construes as communicative. (cf. Maturana & Varela, 1992, p. 195)

 

International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics
"The interaction between systems or parts of a system using a pre-arranged code" (J.Z. YOUNG 1978, p. 290).

This definition emphasizes the preliminary necessity of a shared code, which seems obvious.

Which is however not always so obvious is that this code is generally quite complex, offering physical perceptive, semantic and cultural aspects, in accordance, moreover with the characteristics of the environment shared by the communicating systems.

J. van GIGCG makes the point: "When communications Sciences were dominated by SHANNON’s work in Communication Theory,... the human communication channel provided this scientific discipline with its metaphor: a system grounded in telephone and electronic technologies. However, this school of thought has been superseeded and displaced by a more comprehensive view which embraces not only the syntactic, but also the semantic and pragmatic views of communication. Therefore, this field can be associated with the metaphor of a relational exchange system designed to influence" (1993, p. 50).