Gregory Bateson on Relational Communication: From Octopuses to Nations

This book develops Gregory Bateson’s ideas regarding “communication about relationship” in animals and human beings, and even nations. It bases itself on Bateson’s theory of relational communication, as he described it in the zoosemiotics of octopus, mammals, birds, and human beings. This theory inc...

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Main Author: Guddemi, Phillip. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020.
Series:Biosemiotics, 20
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52101-1
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