Richard L Lanigan
Biographic Data
| ID | 230143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard L Lanigan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Lanigan |
| SIGNATURE | LANIGAN R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Epidemiology Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5017-8822 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 40 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Agonistic and Ecstatic Chiasm
An analysis of the logic function of Analogy as historically adapted by the disciplines of Philosophy and Rhetoric (Communicology, Linguistics, Semiotics). Most cultures assimilate analogy as a disposition for causal thinking [G. aitia] which becomes a habit for making judgments, e.g., deictic expressions of comparison, then contrast. The main illustration is Plato’s Analogy of the Line as used by philosophers (dialectic, mathematic as Ontology) …
Capítulo 8. La teoría de la comunicología
La Comunicología es la ciencia de la comunicación humana. Tras casi cien años de desarrollo, el concepto moderno de comunicación se ha convertido en una disciplina formal de las ciencias humanas. Utiliza los métodos de investigación basados en la lógica de la semiótica y la fenomenología para explicar la conciencia y el comportamiento humanos como discurso dentro de la cultura global. Comenzando en el siglo XX con Edmund Husserl y Charles S. Peir…
The Visible and the Invisible as Shadows of Light and Dark Shade
Article The Visible and the Invisible as Shadows of Light and Dark Shade: An Introduction to the Special Issue was published on September 1, 2021 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 7, issue 3)
French Chiasm Communicology and the Discourse Model of the Human Sciences
The French discourse model of human communication is largely an engagement of the problematic concept of enlightenment as a product of the ability to reason by thinking. The engagement as speaking and writing becomes thematic, when one considers that, the product called "reason" also should explicate the process wherein the conscious experience of being is essentially "reasonable" in doing as listening and reading. The engaged analysis of reason …
Applied Communicology in Organizational PR and R&D
Article Applied Communicology in Organizational PR and R&D: Peirce on Synechism, Fuller on Synergetics, Gordon on Synectics, and Alinsky on Socialism was published on December 1, 2019 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 5, issue 4)
Intentionality as Creativity
Article Intentionality as Creativity: A Communicological Critique of Muddle-Headed Mindfulness in Pragmatics of Human Communication was published on March 1, 2019 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 5, issue 1)
Immanuel Kant on the philosophy of communicology
The article consists of a brief biographical account of Immanuel Kant's life and career, followed by a discussion of his basic philosophy, and a brief discussion of his pivotal point in the history of Rhetoric and Communicology. A major figure in the European Enlightenment period of Philosophy, his Collected Writings were first published in 1900 constituting 29 volumes. He wrote three major works that are foundational to the development of Wester…
Perelman's phenomenology of rhetoric
The analysis explores the main arguments of Noam Chomsky's short book,Media Controlthat also reprints the monograph "The Journalist from Mars: How the 'War on Terror' Should Be Reported." The problematic is Aristotelian rhetoric and Enlightenment rationality (justice) in civic discourse (Lógos) as compared to the thematic of dialogic reasonableness (Eulógos). Chomsky's assumption of, and critique of, "old rhetoric" [Aristotle'srhētorikḗ] is follo…
Communicology Chiasm
Gregory Bateson is famous for his description of the "double bind" that occurs when human (and animal) communication interaction becomes dysfunctional. His principal example is the "nip versus bite" opposition that he observed when a human and a dog (or two monkies) "play" (nip) and then play turns to "work" (bite).The model is a semiotic failure by not accounting for negation, i.e., "labor" (not-nip) and "leisure" (not-bite). Thus, if there is a…
M erleau‐ P onty, M aurice
The entry consists of an intellectual and personal biography of Maurice Merleau‐Ponty, and includes a contextual discussion of his intellectual friends, including Sartre, De Beauvoir, Lévi‐Strauss, and his student, Foucault. Merleau‐Ponty's contributions to the founding of French phenomenology and his conjunction of philosophy and the human sciences (anthropology, linguistics, psychology, sociology) are discussed under three topics: (1) existenti…
P eirce, C harles S.
The entry consists of a biographical sketch of Peirce, noting the circumstances that influenced the development of his thinking and writing. The biography also situates him within the history of American philosophy, especially his authorship of the movement known as pragmatism. His publications record an intellectual journey from Aristotle through medieval philosophy and a familiarity with Hegel and Kant to the contemporary conjunction of phenome…
K ant, I mmanuel
The entry consists of a brief biographical account of Immanuel Kant's life, followed by a discussion of his philosophy, and of his pivotal position in the history of rhetoric and communicology. A major figure in the European Enlightenment period of philosophy, Kant wrote three major works that are foundational to the development of Western philosophy, often just referred to as the “three critiques”: The Critique of Pure Reason focused on issues i…
S chütz, A lfred
The entry offers a brief biographical sketch of Schütz's life and career, both as an investment banker and as a philosopher who focused on the sociology of communication. His relationship to his friend and mentor, Edmund Husserl, is discussed with reference to both phenomenological philosophy and its application in human sciences as a logic of qualitative methodology. Separate sections are devoted respectively to economics, sociology, semiotics, …
Semiotic Paradigms of Self and Person
Article Semiotic Paradigms of Self and Person: The Perspectives Model of Communicology as the Logic Foundation of Human Science was published on March 1, 2015 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 1, issue 1)
Convergence constitutes the horizon of divergence
Let me begin with a short prologue to say that it is an honor to dialogue with a long-standing mentor and colleague of mine. While I am in agreement with virtually all of Professor Schrag's work, i
Netizen communicology
Intercultural communicology is a complex system of intergroup communication and, in consequence, is a specialized case of human communication in which discourse is constructed in a semiotic world of experience, i.e., the Semiosphere. I look at the Netizen (online citizen) application of semiotic phenomenological theories and categories as we explore their emblematic presence as cosmologies and logics in the sociocultural discourses of the People'…
Communicology and Culturology
Communicology is the science of human communication where consciousness is constituted as a medium of communication at four interconnected levels of interaction experience: intrapersonal (embodied), interpersonal (dyadic), group (social), and inter-group (cultural). The focus of the paper is the group level of communication across generations, thus constituting inter-group communication that stabilizes norms (forms a culture). I propose to explic…
Please don't sue, it's just my opinion
Richard Lanigan has worked in the Cuban health care system and now owns a number of spinal health care clinics in the UK. These take an integrated approach to spinal health and wellbeing without the use of drugs. Before resigning from the chiropractic profession, he was an elected member of the General Chiropractic Council and a Fellow of the College of Chiropractors. He is an inveterate blogger and has commented extensively on the Simon Singh ca…
Semiotics Education Experience
(2011). Semiotics Education Experience. Russian Journal of Communication: Vol. 4, No. 1-2, pp. 129-135
The semiotic phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault
Postmodern methodology in the human sciences and philosophy reverses the Aristotelian laws of thought such that (1) non-contradiction, (2) excluded middle, (3) contradiction, and (4) identity become the ground for analysis. The illustration of the postmodern logic is Peirce’s (1) interpretant, (2) symbol, (3) index, and (4) icon. The thesis is illustrated using the work of Merleau-Ponty and Foucault and the le même et l’autre discourse sign where…
Paradigm Shifts
The systems of thought operating in the Philosophy of Communication Division of the International Communication Association are explicated. Kant's philosophy of logic is used to define the analytic/synthetic distinction as the metaphysical foundation of Modernity. The methodological ground of Postmodernity is a critique of positivism using Kant's logic and C. S. Peirce's semiotic phenomenology of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, and Adduction. Th…
Capta versus data
Metodologia é uma preocupação básica com os tipos de evidência, estruturas de análise e regras de julgamento para validade. Este artigo compara os métodos de pesquisa da fenomenologia e do positivismo. Pesquisa qualitativa é um foco no uso objetivo das lógicas normativas de mensuração na experiência empírica. A evidência de amostra analisada é tomada dos dados de discurso relatados por A. R. Luria no seu livro Cognitive Development publicado orig…
Capta versus data
Capta versus data
Is Erving Goffman a phenomenologist
Phenomenology is a human science theory and methodology whose history runs from Edmund Husserl and Alfred Schutz to Maurice Merleau‐Ponty and his student, Michel Foucault. One applied form of this qualitative research tradition in the United States is the ethnomethodology of Erving Goffman. While many of his research practices are “phenomenological,” they are decidedly a‐theoretical, especially by comparison to the contemporary theory and methodo…
Beyond the letter
Semiotic Paradigms of Self and Person
Article Semiotic Paradigms of Self and Person: The Perspectives Model of Communicology as the Logic Foundation of Human Science was published on March 1, 2015 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 1, issue 1)
Communicology and Culturology
Communicology is the science of human communication where consciousness is constituted as a medium of communication at four interconnected levels of interaction experience: intrapersonal (embodied), interpersonal (dyadic), group (social), and inter-group (cultural). The focus of the paper is the group level of communication across generations, thus constituting inter-group communication that stabilizes norms (forms a culture). I propose to explic…
Capta versus data
Capta versus data
Metodologia é uma preocupação básica com os tipos de evidência, estruturas de análise e regras de julgamento para validade. Este artigo compara os métodos de pesquisa da fenomenologia e do positivismo. Pesquisa qualitativa é um foco no uso objetivo das lógicas normativas de mensuração na experiência empírica. A evidência de amostra analisada é tomada dos dados de discurso relatados por A. R. Luria no seu livro Cognitive Development publicado orig…
Intentionality as Creativity
Article Intentionality as Creativity: A Communicological Critique of Muddle-Headed Mindfulness in Pragmatics of Human Communication was published on March 1, 2019 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 5, issue 1)
Immanuel Kant on the philosophy of communicology
The article consists of a brief biographical account of Immanuel Kant's life and career, followed by a discussion of his basic philosophy, and a brief discussion of his pivotal point in the history of Rhetoric and Communicology. A major figure in the European Enlightenment period of Philosophy, his Collected Writings were first published in 1900 constituting 29 volumes. He wrote three major works that are foundational to the development of Wester…
Perelman's phenomenology of rhetoric
The analysis explores the main arguments of Noam Chomsky's short book,Media Controlthat also reprints the monograph "The Journalist from Mars: How the 'War on Terror' Should Be Reported." The problematic is Aristotelian rhetoric and Enlightenment rationality (justice) in civic discourse (Lógos) as compared to the thematic of dialogic reasonableness (Eulógos). Chomsky's assumption of, and critique of, "old rhetoric" [Aristotle'srhētorikḗ] is follo…
Communicology Chiasm
Gregory Bateson is famous for his description of the "double bind" that occurs when human (and animal) communication interaction becomes dysfunctional. His principal example is the "nip versus bite" opposition that he observed when a human and a dog (or two monkies) "play" (nip) and then play turns to "work" (bite).The model is a semiotic failure by not accounting for negation, i.e., "labor" (not-nip) and "leisure" (not-bite). Thus, if there is a…
Convergence constitutes the horizon of divergence
Let me begin with a short prologue to say that it is an honor to dialogue with a long-standing mentor and colleague of mine. While I am in agreement with virtually all of Professor Schrag's work, i
Netizen communicology
Intercultural communicology is a complex system of intergroup communication and, in consequence, is a specialized case of human communication in which discourse is constructed in a semiotic world of experience, i.e., the Semiosphere. I look at the Netizen (online citizen) application of semiotic phenomenological theories and categories as we explore their emblematic presence as cosmologies and logics in the sociocultural discourses of the People'…
Semiotics Education Experience
(2011). Semiotics Education Experience. Russian Journal of Communication: Vol. 4, No. 1-2, pp. 129-135
Paradigm Shifts
The systems of thought operating in the Philosophy of Communication Division of the International Communication Association are explicated. Kant's philosophy of logic is used to define the analytic/synthetic distinction as the metaphysical foundation of Modernity. The methodological ground of Postmodernity is a critique of positivism using Kant's logic and C. S. Peirce's semiotic phenomenology of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, and Adduction. Th…
Contemporary philosophy of communication
THE LANGUAGE AND LOGIC OF PHILOSOPHY. By Hubert G. Alexander. Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1972; pp. x+362. Paper $4.95. SEMANTICS. VOLS. I AND II. By John Lyons. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977; pp. I: xiii+371, II: xiv+372–897. I: 124.95, paper §7.95; II: $31.50, paper $8.95. SPEAKING AND MEANING: THE PHE NOMENOLOGY OF LANGUAGE. By James M. Edie. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976; pp. xiii+271. $12.50. E…
Maurice Merleau-Ponty bibliography
Enthymeme
The historical controversy generated by logicians and rhetoricians over the definition of the “enthymeme” appears to derive from a confusion of causality and persuasion. The Aristotelian corpus and various interpretive commentaries suggest that enthymematic definition is properly understood in terms of the genus‐species relationship in terms of formal and material causality. Hence for Aristotle the enthymeme is best understood as a speaker's syll…
Speech Act Phenomenology
Contemporary philosophy of communication
THE LANGUAGE AND LOGIC OF PHILOSOPHY. By Hubert G. Alexander. Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1972; pp. x+362. Paper $4.95. SEMANTICS. VOLS. I AND II. By John Lyons. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977; pp. I: xiii+371, II: xiv+372–897. I: 124.95, paper §7.95; II: $31.50, paper $8.95. SPEAKING AND MEANING: THE PHE NOMENOLOGY OF LANGUAGE. By James M. Edie. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976; pp. xiii+271. $12.50. E…
General and Theoretical
Communication Models in Philosophy
Philosophy is a discipline offering several models of communication as a theoretical base for empirical research. This essay is an introductory explication of the major divisions of philosophy (metatphysics, epistemology, logic, axiology) as illustrated in the models currently used in the philosophy of communication: Existential Phenomenology, Semiology, Conceptual Analysis, and Critical Theory. Each model represents a unique formulation of the c…
A Semiotic Metatheory of Human Communication
Beyond the letter
Structuralism and semiotics
Semiotic phenomenology in Plato’s Sophist
Introduction
Merleau-Ponty and the human sciences
How natives think
Foundations of communicology as a human science
Semiotic Phenomenology of Rhetoric
The first concrete presentation of phenomenological method in the philosophy of communication and the first systematic look at Henry Grattan, 18th-19th century Irish statesman. Individual chapters cover the method of semiotic phenomenology as it applies to the specific practice of rhetorical criticism and to the general use of phenomenology as a research procedure. Co-published with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology
Is Erving Goffman a phenomenologist
Phenomenology is a human science theory and methodology whose history runs from Edmund Husserl and Alfred Schutz to Maurice Merleau‐Ponty and his student, Michel Foucault. One applied form of this qualitative research tradition in the United States is the ethnomethodology of Erving Goffman. While many of his research practices are “phenomenological,” they are decidedly a‐theoretical, especially by comparison to the contemporary theory and methodo…
Capta versus data
Capta versus data
Capta versus data
Metodologia é uma preocupação básica com os tipos de evidência, estruturas de análise e regras de julgamento para validade. Este artigo compara os métodos de pesquisa da fenomenologia e do positivismo. Pesquisa qualitativa é um foco no uso objetivo das lógicas normativas de mensuração na experiência empírica. A evidência de amostra analisada é tomada dos dados de discurso relatados por A. R. Luria no seu livro Cognitive Development publicado orig…
The semiotic phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault
Postmodern methodology in the human sciences and philosophy reverses the Aristotelian laws of thought such that (1) non-contradiction, (2) excluded middle, (3) contradiction, and (4) identity become the ground for analysis. The illustration of the postmodern logic is Peirce’s (1) interpretant, (2) symbol, (3) index, and (4) icon. The thesis is illustrated using the work of Merleau-Ponty and Foucault and the le même et l’autre discourse sign where…
Paradigm Shifts
The systems of thought operating in the Philosophy of Communication Division of the International Communication Association are explicated. Kant's philosophy of logic is used to define the analytic/synthetic distinction as the metaphysical foundation of Modernity. The methodological ground of Postmodernity is a critique of positivism using Kant's logic and C. S. Peirce's semiotic phenomenology of Abduction, Deduction, Induction, and Adduction. Th…
Please don't sue, it's just my opinion
Richard Lanigan has worked in the Cuban health care system and now owns a number of spinal health care clinics in the UK. These take an integrated approach to spinal health and wellbeing without the use of drugs. Before resigning from the chiropractic profession, he was an elected member of the General Chiropractic Council and a Fellow of the College of Chiropractors. He is an inveterate blogger and has commented extensively on the Simon Singh ca…
Semiotics Education Experience
(2011). Semiotics Education Experience. Russian Journal of Communication: Vol. 4, No. 1-2, pp. 129-135
Communicology and Culturology
Communicology is the science of human communication where consciousness is constituted as a medium of communication at four interconnected levels of interaction experience: intrapersonal (embodied), interpersonal (dyadic), group (social), and inter-group (cultural). The focus of the paper is the group level of communication across generations, thus constituting inter-group communication that stabilizes norms (forms a culture). I propose to explic…
Semiotic Paradigms of Self and Person
Article Semiotic Paradigms of Self and Person: The Perspectives Model of Communicology as the Logic Foundation of Human Science was published on March 1, 2015 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 1, issue 1)
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