How can we know the dancer from the dance

The dynamic nature of African great ape social communication

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2401546
AutoresBarbara J King (0000-0001-9278-3812, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA), Stuart Shanker (York University), Stuart G Shanker (Atkinson College, York University, Toronto, Canada)
Año2003
Volumen3
Número1
Páginas5-26
Fecha de publicación2003-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1463-4996 • E-ISSN: 1741-2641
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1463499603003001749
OpenAlexW1981868726
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas63

We argue that dynamic-systems theory (DST) offers researchers a promising alternative to the information-processing framework that has dominated the study of primate social communication. DST rejects a linear view of communication in which a sender transmits a signal to a receiver, who then decodes that signal for its information content. Instead, dynamic-systems theory envisions communication as an intrinsically creative process that unfolds as communicating partners continuously adjust their behaviors to one another. This process of continual adjustment, termed co-regulation, can be identified in the social communication of the African great apes. When researchers study communication in terms of co-regulated social interaction, new insights and research questions emerge that may help anthropologists better understand the nature of the vocal and gestural behaviors of our closest living relatives

Art · Cognitive science · Communication source · Communication theory · Dance · Decodes · Epistemology · Process (computing · Sociology · Telecommunications · Visual arts · Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior · Child and Animal Learning Development · Communication · Computer Science · Philosophy · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Psychology · Social Psychology