ISBN:
0415978599 (hbk. : alk. paper)
,
9780415978590 (hbk. : alk. paper)
,
0415978602 (pbk. : alk. paper)
,
9780415978606 (pbk. : alk. paper)
,
0203894804 (ebk.)
,
9780203894804 (ebk.)
Language:
English
Pages:
VI, 372 S.
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Ill.
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
DDC:
302.2
Keywords:
Communication / Philosophy
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Philosophie
;
Communication Philosophy
;
Philosophie
;
Kommunikation
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Kommunikation
;
Philosophie
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-357) and index
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Part 1: Communicating. An alternative paradigm ; Epistemological grounding ; Major communication metaphors ; A recursive framework for communication theories ; Conversation or intellectual imperialism -- Part 2: Otherness. The otherness that theory creates ; A cybernetics of I-other relations ; Pathology, power, and emancipation ; Writing ecologically -- Part 3: Meaning. A constructivist critique of semiotics ; The dialogical meaning of cultural artifacts ; The methodo-logic of content analysis ; Discourse as systematically constrained conversation -- Part 4: Information. An introduction to information theory ; Research in-formation ; Paradox and information ; Cyberspace and its artifacts ; Social memory