Eugene writes:
>I think there can a be danger to reduce interaction and dialogue to a
>"ping-pong" game of exchanges and individuals' discrete thinking of what
>counterpart is thinking and so on. It seems that it is more useful as
>individuals' contributions to management of "emerging
>intersubjectivities."
>Besides, the image of interaction as discrete exchanges ahs its own limits
>because of a lot of paralell communicative processes and flows are going
>on
>(e.g., non-verbal communcation).
i didn't mean to say that communication is a series of discrete exchanges.
i am interested in how silence influences the emerging intersubjectivities.
is it (silence) more ambiguous than verbal communication, or only another
piece of the larger picture?
in your example of working out a way to communicate with your arab
colleague, was some work task the object and your joking together the
by-product?
and what about taboos? i'm wondering about the understandings that kids
create when they are not allowed to talk about something.
kathie
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