RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

with information and communication, as does Edward T. Hall in his book The Silent Language, repeating and elaborating Arnold Toynbee’s attempt to develop a grammar of messages capable of lasting several hundred years. There is a special importance in some of the more recent investigations among which the work of Agnes Heller, while not alone, is very indicative from the standpoint of studying this problem. She introduces the concept of everyday communication that links us with an earlier experience - the experience of Marshall McLuhan with ail its controversies. Mrs. Heller took everyday communication as the basis and reflection of social relations, also the departure point of Đorđevič’s thesis on the relationship between communicative and social practices which the author in review avoids the blunder of epuating. Mrs. Heller’s experience is valuable because she takes into account a number of inter-elements filling the space of everyday communication, of communications practice. Extremely useful here would be the findings of a number of Soviet and especially Polish researchers, in the first place those who introduce a sociological dimension in the study of language and culture, as a starting point of sorts in communications practice. Đorđevič’s new investigations will certainly take this into consideration, thus enriching our theoretical thinking in the information field and adding improvements to it just as this book has done.

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