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58Husserl's Phenomenology in America (USA): The Human Science Legacy of Wilbur Marshall Urban and the Yale School of CommunicologySchutzian Research. A Yearbook of Worldly Phenomenology and Qualitative Social Science 3 (n/a): 203-217. 2011.Edmund Husserl gave his famous London Lectures (in German) in June 1922 where he says his purpose is to explain “transcendental sociological [intersubjective] phenomenology having reference to a manifest multiplicity of conscious subjects communicating with one another”. This effective definitionof semiotic phenomenology as Communicology was reported in English (1923) by Charles K. Ogden and I. A. Richards in the first book on the topic titled The Meaning of Meaning. This groundwork was in full …Read more
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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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51From Saussure to Communicology: the Paris School of SemiologyProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 62 (n/a): 124-135. 1988.
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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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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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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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40CommunicologyCultura 4 (2): 212-216. 2007.The paper is a paradigmatic presentation of what the new science of communicology represents: the semiotic and phenomenological study of humandiscourse and the critical study of discourse and practice both, an interaction of communication, mass communications, popular culture, public relations, advertising, marketing, linguistics, discourse analysis, political economy, institutional analysis, organization of urban and rural spaces, ergonomics, body culture, clinical practice, health care, constr…Read more
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39This work presents the first systemic account of the author's innovative theory of semiotic phenomenology and its place in the philosophy of communication and language. The creative and compelling project presented here spans more than fifteen years of systematic eidetic and empirical research into questions of human communication. Using the thematics of Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology, the author explores the concepts and practices of the human sciences that are grounded in communicat…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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28The 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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28The Postmodern Author: Foucault on Fiction and the Fiction of FoucaultAmerican Journal of Semiotics 17 (1): 253-271. 2001.
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27CommunicologyCultura 4 (2): 212-216. 2007.The paper is a paradigmatic presentation of what the new science of communicology represents: the semiotic and phenomenological study of humandiscourse and the critical study of discourse and practice both, an interaction of communication, mass communications, popular culture, public relations, advertising, marketing, linguistics, discourse analysis, political economy, institutional analysis, organization of urban and rural spaces, ergonomics, body culture, clinical practice, health care, constr…Read more
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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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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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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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