metacommunicationn.

1951 J. Ruesch & G. Bateson Communication vii. 203 (heading) Communication between two persons and metacommunication.

1967 P. 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.

1974 Publishers 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.

1982 J. Culler On Deconstruction (1983) 11 Rationality as reflexivity about our groundings premises an ability to speak about our speech and the factors that ground it. Rationality is thus located in metacommunication.

1999 Internat Jrnl. Behavioral Devel. 18 459 Older children used more out-of-frame meta-communication during fantastic episodes.

1967 J. 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.

1997 Business Communication Q. (Nexis) June 20 Strangers from different cultures often react adversely to violations of their metacommunicational expectations.