Answers to Questions That No One is Asking
A Report on Knowledge in Communicology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22693553 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Garnet C Butchart (Duquesne University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | E61-E67 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9916 • E-ISSN: 1460-2466 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/joc/jqy059 |
| OpenAlex | W2901460248 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
What is communicology? What does it look like? Why does it matter to human communication research today? The present review offers answers to these and other questions. To begin, communicology may be defined as “the study of human discourse in all of its forms, ranging from human gesture and speech to art and television” (Lanigan, 1992, p. 1). We can narrow that definition and say that communicology is “a philosophy of consciousness and a science of embodied discourse ... where consciousness may be viewed as cultural and semiotic and experience as personal and phenomenological. [Both] commingle in communication” (Catt, 2017, p. 1). As the name suggests, communicology is associated primarily with discipline-specific research in human communication. However, it enters into conversation with problems, questions, and concepts that cross disciplines of philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and linguistics. The methodology that guides research in communicology is a combination of semiotics and phenomenology. Although semiotics and phenomenology are commonly understood as belonging to intellectual traditions that are at odds, for communicology, the vocabularies of both traditions allow for descriptions and interpretations of lifeworld features that neither can accomplish on its own: namely, the logic of signs and their embodied experience in the process of semiosis. As a methodology, “semiotic phenomenology” may be defined as “a continuous, mind-opening, and nontotalizing discourse where the problems and shortfalls of both classical philosophy and contemporary theory meet with insights into existential, psychological, and aesthetic issues that were consciously bracketed and excluded after the structuralist turn” (Whalberg, 2008, p. xii).
Biosemiotics · Consciousness · Conversation · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Existentialism · Human science · Lifeworld · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Semiosis · Semiotics · Sociology · Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistic research and analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |