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In: | Communications, 13, 1987, 3, S. 7-30 |
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Umfang: | 7-30 |
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ISSN: |
1613-4087
0341-2059 |
DOI: | 10.1515/comm-1987-0302 |
veröffentlicht in: | Communications |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Kollektion: | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (CrossRef) |
<jats:title>Summary</jats:title> <jats:p> Secret is not only a topic of communication science that has been neglected for a long time, but it may stand also as a code for the method of gaining knowledge in communication “ex contrario”. Thereby it proves that communication is regulated more by interests in pleasure and relationships than in certain contents (the priority of which many scholars still impute). Georg Simmel already analyses the immanent communicative character of secrets, their relevance to relationships, and their dialectical relation to publicity. However his fundamental understandings are modified subsequently in part, they are approved generally in several sciences, from the viewpoint of ethological, psychological, sociological or mass communication research, as well as with functional or critical intentions.</jats:p> |