Communication Games : : The Semiotic Foundation of Culture / / Eduardo Neiva.
Communication Games is a new and radical interpretation of the relationship between culture and communication. It explores the idea that culture and communication studies should be seen predominantly in relation to struggles and conflicts within the social arena. It criticizes the conventional herit...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Approaches to Applied Semiotics [AAS] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Other title: | i-vi -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword -- Part 1. Canonical games -- Chapter 1. Conflict -- Chapter 2. Coordination -- Chapter 3. Contract -- Part 2. Ancestral games -- Chapter 4. Origin -- Chapter 5. Sex, signals -- Part 3. Individual games -- Chapter 6. Strategies -- Chapter 7. Players -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Summary: | Communication Games is a new and radical interpretation of the relationship between culture and communication. It explores the idea that culture and communication studies should be seen predominantly in relation to struggles and conflicts within the social arena. It criticizes the conventional heritage of the social sciences and humanities. Culture and communication are conceived not merely as means of integrating social actors, but as semiotic ways of providing fitness indicators that allow for the resolution of competition between individuals. From the perspective of Peircean semiotics and the Darwinian understanding of life processes, Communication Games redefines culture in terms of Darwin's notion of sexual selection. Moving on from the realization that sexual selection creates individual organisms with conflicting interests, Communication Games emphasizes the contribution of game theory to semiotics and communication studies. The book demonstrates how cooperation and shared conventions eventually emerge, and how conflicts are resolved through the display of costly and inflated signs. It is from these inflated signs and the escalation of excessive messages that cultures gain a certain degree of stability. Communication Games proposes a new way of understanding culture, communication, and semiotic exchange in terms of game theory. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110897753 9783110238570 9783110238457 9783110636970 9783110742961 9783110277135 9783110277197 9783110277166 9783110276909 |
ISSN: | 1612-6769 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110897753 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Eduardo Neiva. |