1. Approaches to Communication Research -- Pt. I. Theory. 2. Written Content as Emergent Phenomena. 3. Contexts Sustaining Print Transactions. 4. Communicative Transactions and Their Ecology. 5. The Role of Language in the Communicative Transaction. 6. The Dynamics of the Communicative Transaction -- Pt. II. Applications. 7. Print. 8. Professions. 9. Academia. 10. Migration and Authority. App. A: Simulation Data for Print (Chapter 7) -- App. B: Simulation Data for Professions (Chapter 8) -- App. C: Simulation Data for Academia (Chapter 9)
Analysis
Communication -- Social aspects
Communication and culture
Printing -- Social aspects
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 440-458) and index
