Behaving and communicating: A reply to Motley
Western Journal of Speech CommunicationPublished 30 December 1990
Janet Beavin Bavelas
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Abstract Two propositions that have been treated as equivalent ("All behavior is communication" and "one cannot not communicate") are separated, on logical grounds, into two separate questions: "Is all nonverbal behavior communicative?" and "In an interactional setting, is there always some communicative behavior?" I suggest that both should be treated as hypotheses, not axioms, and outline empirical tests for both. The essay also specifies agreement and disagreement with other points in Motley's (1990) article.
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