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Ryan, Michael G. – 1972
A historical review of the background of the theories and observations of Marshall McLuhan demonstrates that these ideas arose from or were first articulated by several antecedent social scientists. Some of McLuhan's ideas arise directly from the linguistic observations of Benjamin Lee Whorf. Other ideas show signs of having been influenced by…
Descriptors: Codification, Communication (Thought Transfer), History, Information Theory
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Jackson, Gregg; Cosca, Cecilia – American Educational Research Journal, 1974
A slightly modified Flanders interaction coding system was used to code teacher verbal behaviors with reference to the ethnicity of the student to whom each behavior was directed. A number of statistically significant, substantial and pedagogically important disparities in teacher behaviors were directed toward Mexican American and Anglo students.…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Classroom Observation Techniques, Codification, Comparative Analysis
Rosenberg, Helen; Bonoma, Thomas V. – 1973
A theoretically-derived, easily employable, and widely applicable coding system for processing analysis of small group discussions is described. The system was constructed from established social influence theory, and pilot results from application of the system to group therapy interactions were presented. Eighty percent of all group…
Descriptors: Codification, Communication (Thought Transfer), Formative Evaluation, Group Dynamics
Kraat, Arlene W. – 1987
This study draws on research and programs in Sweden, England, Canada, and the United States to examine communication interaction between a person using a communication aid and a person who is an able-bodied, natural speaker. It primarily addresses the child or adult with normal or near-normal cognitive abilities who uses augmentation and interacts…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Codification, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Research
Rogers, L. Edna; Farace, Richard – 1973
Relational communication refers to the control or dominance aspects of message exchange in dyads--distinguishing it from the report or referential aspects of communication. In relational communicational analysis, messages as transactions are emphasized; major theoretical concepts which emerge are symmetry, transitoriness, and complementarity of…
Descriptors: Codification, Communication (Thought Transfer), Human Relations, Individual Power
Wilden, Anthony – 1972
This book ranges widely over the fields of communication theory, Freudian and Lacanian psychology, and Levi-Straussian anthropology. The primary goal of the book is an examination of the structural and analogic patterns within human communication and exchange. This examination involves discourses upon the computer compared to the human nervous…
Descriptors: Analog Computers, Anthropology, Codification, Digital Computers