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metacommuniˈcation
[meta- 1.]
Communication that takes place with, or underlies, a more obvious form of communication; principles or theories about communication derived from the study of communication. Hence metacommuniˈcational, metacoˈmmunicative adjs.
1951Ruesch & Bateson Communication vi. 152 He is, also,..making implicit metacommunicative statements about his own position and stock of information. Ibid. vii. 203 (heading) Communication between two persons and metacommunication. 1963T. A. Sebeok in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 28 The metacommunicative messages used by rhesus monkeys, enabling them to distinguish between play and nonplay, have received particularly careful attention. 1967J. A. Meerloo in L. Thayer Communication 54 We cannot, of course, recover man's contemplations about himself from fossil remains, and data from living nonliterate men are lamentably deficient in metacommunicational material. 1967P. Watzlawick et al. Pragmatics Human Communication i. 40 When we no longer use communication to communicate but to communicate about communication, as we inevitably must in communication research, then we use conceptualizations that are not part of but about communication. In analogy to metamathematics this is called metacommunication. 1974Publishers Weekly 29 Apr. 47/3 The author is one of the students of ‘metacommunications’ or body language—Gregory Bateson and Raymond Birdwhistell are the two best-known names in this field, though their work derives from anthropologists such as Lorenz. |