Symbolic Communication
Subtitle: Signifying Calls and the Police Response (Organization Studies)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: January 6, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780262132343
Subjects: Criminal investigation & detection; Police Science; Semiotics; Social Science; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Sociology; General; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Communication in police admini; Communication in police administration; Great Britain; Police communication systems; United States
First sentence: Human society is based on symbolic communication; yet communication is assumed to do its work much like the increasingly complicated technological infrastructure that carries television, radio, telephone, and microcomputer signals between large, loosely linked networks.