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5Erratum: Capta versus Data: Method and Evidence in CommunicologyHuman Studies 17 (2): 285-285. 1994.
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13Communicology, Cybernetics, and Chiasm: A Synergism of Logic, Linguistics, and SemioticsIn Carlos Vidales & Søren Brier (eds.), Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective, Springer Verlag. pp. 161-191. 2021.The analysis takes up the conjunction of semiotics and cybernetics as a problem in theory construction in the human sciences. From a philosophical perspective, this is also the ontological problem of communicology: the disciplinary study of human communication. My analysis suggests current conceptions of “semiotics” and “cybernetics” are misunderstood because “information” is assumed as synonymous with “communication” and that the axioms of “mathematics” are identical to those of “logics”. The e…Read more
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5Crossing Out Normative Boundaries in PsychosisAmerican Journal of Semiotics 35 (3/4): 335-364. 2019.The coding function of semiotic-systems in literature is explored as an example of Umberto Eco’s real and fictional protocols in the play of discourse formation (lector in fabula). The intricate phenomenological levels of intersemiotic translation (apposition, opposition, chiasm, zeugma) are illustrated by analyzing a rhetorical passage (semiotic object) from Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House. The passage on the logic of series (“lists”) allows us to explore fact/fiction, real/imaginary, normal…Read more
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23Perelman’s phenomenology of rhetoric: Foucault contests Chomsky’s complaint about media communicology in the age of Trump polemicSemiotica 2019 (229): 273-328. 2019.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 followed by a discussion of Chiam Perelman’s “new rheto…Read more
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22Immanuel Kant on the philosophy of communicology: The tropic logic of rhetoric and semioticsSemiotica 2019 (227): 273-315. 2019.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 Western philosophy and the human sciences. Often just re…Read more
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28The Postmodern Author: Foucault on Fiction and the Fiction of FoucaultAmerican Journal of Semiotics 17 (1): 253-271. 2001.
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21The Communicology of the Image Alain Robbe-Grillet, Instantanés [Snapshots] (1962 / 1986)American Journal of Semiotics 17 (3): 255-265. 2001.
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57The semiotic phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel FoucaultSign Systems Studies 33 (1): 7-25. 2005.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 the ratio [Self:Same :: Other:Different] explicat…Read more
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3From Saussure to Communicology: the Paris School of SemiologyProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 62 (n/a): 124. 1988.
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25Communicology is the study of human discourse in all of its forms, ranging from human gesture and speech to art and television. Commuicology also represents the dominant qualitative research paradigm in the discipline of human communication, especially in the applied areas of mass communication, philosophy of communication, and speech communication. Lanigan's work offers the bold and original thesis that Michel Foucault's thematic study of the discourse of desire and power is an elaboration of t…Read more
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32Charles S. Peirce on Phenomenology: Communicology, Codes, and Messages; or, Phenomenology, Synechism, and FallibilismAmerican Journal of Semiotics 30 (1/2): 139-158. 2014.Peirce uses the covering term Semiotic to include his major divisions of thought and communication process: Speculative Grammar, or the study of beliefs independent of the structure of language ; Exact Logic, or the study of assertion in relation to reality ; and Speculative Rhetoric, or the study of the general conditions under which a problem presents itself for solution . This division previews Peirce’s famous triadic models of analysis. Peirce goes on to make the phenomenological distinction…Read more
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47Speaking and semiology: Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological theory of existential communicationMouton de Gruyter. 1972.KEY TO FOOTNOTE ABBREVIATIONS MM-P. Structure Phenomenology Sense Praise Signs Visible Themes Humanism Primacy Maurice Merleau-Ponty The Structure of ...
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19Netizen communicology: China daily and the Internet construction of group cultureSemiotica 2015 (207): 489-528. 2015.Name der Zeitschrift: Semiotica Jahrgang: 2015 Heft: 207 Seiten: 489-528
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11Semiotic Phenomenology of Rhetoric: Eidetic Practice in Henry Grattan's Discourse on ToleranceUniversity Press of America. 1984.The first concrete presentation of phenomenological method in the philosophy of communication and the first systematic look at Henry Grattan, 18thó19th 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.
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19A Semiotic Perspective in China from a "Big-Nose"In C. W. Spinks & John Deely (eds.), Semiotics 1996, Peter Lang Publishers. pp. 249-255. 1996.
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13Rhetorical Criticism: An Interpretation of Maurice Merleau-PontyPhilosophy and Rhetoric 2 (2). 1969.Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological method of description, Reduction and intentionality is interpreted as a schema for rhetorical criticism. The existential nature of "man speaking" becomes the object of criticism, As opposed to traditional concerns with rhetorical "effects" or auditor reactions. Merleau-Ponty's separation of authentic or existential speech (speaking) and sedimented speech (the spoken word) allows the critic to distinguish social-Cultural values from individual volitions in a given…Read more
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49Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of CommunicationPhilosophy Today 14 (2): 79-88. 1970.Perception and expression are compared and contrasted as constituent parts of a semiotic system. Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological method of 1) description, 2) reduction, And 3) intentionality is analyzed as a synergic function for perception and expression. Perception is understood as the interplay of immanent and transcendent signs which signify a phenomenal presence. Expression is examined as the synthesis of "le langage," "la langue," and "la parole." then, Expression is viewed in its two mod…Read more
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40Herman Parret et ale (eds.): Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Conference on Pragmatics (review)American Journal of Semiotics 2 (4): 171-176. 1984.
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The Human Science of Communicology; A Phenomenology of Discourse in Foucault and Merleau-PontyPhilosophy and Rhetoric 28 (4): 423-425. 1995.
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