Communication and the Evolution of Civilization
Subtitle: A Book of Readings
Publisher: Ginn Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Needham Heights, MA
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780536571670
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Preface; title: Introduction to the Book; title: Part I: Symbols; title: Introduction to Part I; title: The world as a Communication Network by Lawrence Frank; title: Part II: Animal/Human Communication; title: Introduction to Part II; title: The Comparison of Vocal Communication in Animals and Man by W. H. Thorpe; title: Animal Communication by George A. Miller; title: Bee Communication by Adrian Akmajian, Richard A. Demers & Robert M. Harnish; title: Do Animals Think? by Jake Page; title: Part III: Language; title: Introduction to Part III; title: Theories by Brian Stross; title: Nine Ideas about Language by Harvey A. Daniels; title: The Spoken Word by Marshall McLuhan; title: Part IV: Pre-writing Forms of Communication; title: Introduction to Part IV; title: The Paleolithic Age by Abbe Henri Breuil; title: First Steps Toward Writing by Hans Jensen; title: Part V: Writing; title: Introduction to Part V; title: The Origins of Writing: An Archaeologist's Perspective by Denise Schmandt-Besserat; title: The Invention of Writing by Miguel Civil; title: Writing by Yuan Ren CVhao; title: How the Alphabet was Made by Rudyard Kipling; title: Part VI: Oral/Literate Communication; title: Introduction to Part VI; title: The Consequences of Literacy by Jack Goody and Ian Watt; title: The Sociolinguistics of Communication in Speech and Writing by F. Niyi Akinnaso; title: Literacy be Damned by Edmund Leach; title: Part VII: Printing; title: Introduction to Part VII; title: The Lost Art of Memory by Daniel J. Boorstin; title: Printing by Henri-Jean Martin; title: The Emergence of Print Culture in the West by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein; title: Part VIII: Conclusion; title: Conclusion to the Book