Excerpt from the Preface: ... The following aspects of Filipino communication patterns are meant as a starter, preliminary signposts to an ongoing study of indigenous expressiveness. It is merely descriptive, and, in very sense, pakapa-kapa, since we have taken care to start from our context and refrain from being controlled by categories normally used in communication theory as it has developed in the West. The groping for categories intrinsic to the cultures interactive systems has made us for the moment intellectually lost in the world. However, we are beginning to see some trees where we could hang some sign for at least the beginnings of a trail, although we are a long way from getting out of the woods...