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RAY L. BIRDWHISTELL Kinesics :Inter-and intra-channel communication research I f, after sitting in a movie house or after watching an &dquo; interview &dquo; on television, the spectator spends an hour attending to an unrehearsed sound film of a family at the dinner table or of a psychiatrist and a patient in clinical dialogue, he will find it difficult to avoid the impression of formality, or, rather, of superimposed order in the commercial production as contrast with the seemingly eventless flow of the naturalistic research film 1. However, he becomes aware of different orders of contrast if he studies the psychiatric 2 or the family scene 3, and carefully views and reviews the scenes and shapes which emerge from the behavioral stream. Order becomes evident as these abstracted portions are compared with one another and with similar data from his archives.At first viewing, the research film seems to be made of &dquo; he said and then she said and, then, he answered and she reacted and he said &dquo; or &dquo;she moved and then he moved and then she responded &dquo; -a stream of action and reactionto use the prevalent jargon, &dquo; open-ended and informal &dquo;.Yet, as the investigation proceeds, the repetitiveness or, at least, the cyclicity of the interaction becomes manifest. Stream becomes structure. The participants change before his eyes; initiator and respon-1. A.E. SCHEFLEN, Stream and structure of communication behavior, Philadelphia, Pa., Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute,

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