The Rules Are No Game: The Strategy of Communication

Orrin E. Klapp, Anthony Wilden

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1988 · 126 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Literacy is power, but power is never absolute. Like other modes of communication it is moulded by codes or rules; and these constraints - of system, structure, and strategy - are the rules that are no game.