ANTH 1003W Lecture 5: 2:12 Lecture 5
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Series of generalizations: human verbal communication can operate and always does operate at many contrasting levels of abstraction. Is a whole phenomenon, not independent as far as mammalian communication is concerned. Playing: engaging in an interactive sequence of which the unit actions or signals were similar to but not the same as those of combat. *can only occur if the participant organisms were capable of some degree of meta- communication (exchanging signals which would carry the message) this is play . This is play : these actions in which we now engage do not denote what those actions for which they stand would denote.
