Ritual communication from everyday conversation to mediated ceremony
"From family traditions like weddings and funerals to state ceremonies and media events, rites and ceremonies mark socially important occasions, define beginnings and endings, and aid social transitions. As formal modes of conduct, rituals and ceremonies are equally ubiquitous, appearing in eve...
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Thousand Oaks :
Sage Publications
[1998]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- What Is Ritual?
- Descriptions and Definitional Strategy
- Social Life as Punctuated by Rites, Ceremonies, and Other Ritual Forms
- Ritual as a Symbolically Ordered Component of Nearly All Social Action
- Ritual as Noun and Adjective
- Definitional Strategy
- Common Terms of Definition
- A Communicative Principle and a Final Definition
- Five Inadequate Conceptions
- Habit and Routine
- Insincere Public Performance
- Empty Convention
- Stylistic, Symbolic, or Aesthetic Excess
- Ritual = Myth = Ideology = Lying or Confusion
- Four Only Partly Adequate Conceptions
- Ethological
- Freudian
- Sentiment and Solidarity
- Maintenance of the Status Quo
- Some Special Problems in the Study of Ritual
- Social Change
- Inventing Rituals
- Communication Theory and Ritual Problems
- Ritual Is a Communicative Form
- The Effective Mechanisms of Ritual Are Communicative Devices
- The Ordering (and Other) Effects of Ritual Are Subject to the Vicissitudes of Communication
- Symbolic Effectivity Is Real Effectivity
- Socially Constructed Reality Is Real Reality
- Within the Limits of Communicative Effectiveness, Ritual Is a Strong Form
- Symbolicity and Generality
- Materiality and Indexicality
- Backward and Forward References
- The Problem of the Relation of Witness and Spectator, Ritual and Spectacle
- The Phenomenal Status of the Ritual Text in the Actor's Environment
- Some Implications of the Peculiar Phenomenal Status of Ritual
- Ritual in Communication Research
