Pragmatics of human communication
Subtitle: a study of interactional patterns, pathologies, and paradoxes
By: Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Don D. Jackson.
Contributors: Bavelas, Janet Beavin, 1940-; Jackson, Don D.
Publisher: W.W.Norton; Norton
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Communication -- Research.; Communication -- Psychological aspects.; Interpersonal relations.
Description: Called one of the best books ever about human communication, and a perennial bestseller, Pragmatics of Human Communication has formed the foundation of much contemporary research into interpersonal communication, in addition to laying the groundwork for context-based approaches to psychotherapy. The authors present the simple but radical idea that problems in life often arise from issues of communication, rather than from deep psychological disorders, reinforcing their conceptual explorations with case studies and well-known literary examples. Written with humor and for a variety of readers, this book identifies simple properties and axioms of human communication and demonstrates how all communications are actually a function of their contexts.