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Behaving and communicating: A reply to Motley

Two propositions that have been treated as equivalent ("All behavior is communication” and “one cannot not communicate") are separated, on logical grounds, into two separate questions: “Is all nonverbal behavior communicative?” and “In an interactional setting, is there always some communicative behavior?” I suggest that both should be treated as hypotheses, not axioms, and outline empirical tests for both. The essay also specifies agreement and disagreement with other points in Motley's (1990) article.

J. Bavelas

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