Análisis multisistémico de la comunicación humana

Abstract

In this paper, a method to analyze multisystemic human communication is described. Human communication is understood as an interchange of complex messages through a combinatorial modality of physical and somatic channels. These messages are codified and decoded through
analogous but different semiotic systems that organize internally and co-structure to each other, whose essential aim is to communicate. In this way, multisystemic human communication not
only is possible through linguistic system that characterizes us and differentiates us as species, but also through other semiotic systems that are co-expressive with verbal language. Some relevant investigations in this field are reviewed, which deal with the relationship between different semiotic systems of human communication -mainly language, paralanguage and kinesics-. Therefore, the analysis of multisystemic human communication examines not only the interaction of the components within each semiotic system and its interrelationship to other semiotic systems, but also the mechanisms that regulate this relation. Thus, the concept of system based on the General Theory of Systems is reviewed too and, finally, the choice of the term ‘multisystemic’ is justified to propose a clear and unambiguous alternative. Finally, will be depicted the procedure of multisystemic analysis, the description of its analytical phases and methods, as well as the instruments that are used.