Communicology for the Human Sciences

Andrew R. Smith is Professor and Graduate Program Head, Department of Communication, Journalism and Media, Edinboro University.

Isaac E. Catt is Visiting Scholar, Simon E. Silverman Phenomenology Center and Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies, Duquesne University.

Igor E. Klyukanov is Professor, Department of Communication, Eastern Washington University.

Winner of the National Communication Association 2018 Philosophy of Communication Division Top Edited Book Award

This edited volume develops the philosophy of communication inspired by the scholarship of Richard L. Lanigan, with emphasis on communicology as a human science. Lanigan's syntheses of the philosophies of speech, language and discourse stemming from the works of Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Charles Sanders Peirce, Roman Jakobson, Umberto Eco, Pierre Bourdieu, Jurgen Reusch and Gregory Bateson, and many others offers a compelling framework for systematic analysis of human communication in all domains of lived experience. His work defines the theory and method of the human sciences in general and the discipline of communicology in particular. The focus in this collection is on the theoretical and methodological foundations for semiotic phenomenology whereby communication is recognized as constitutive of all human conscious experience and social relationships, involving gestural, nonverbal, discursive, performative, artistic, poetic and mass mediated forms.

The volume is divided into five thematic sections: Founding(s), which marks out primary influences on communicology conceived as a human science; Tropologic(s), which reveals how abduction, adduction and semiosis are essential for understanding human conduct in multiple forms of expression; Trans/formations, which addresses problems of change in self-other relations advancing an ethical life; Voicing Bodies/Embodied Voices, which elaborates the reversible relations between body and voice, and voice and world; and Horizons of Communicability, which takes up operative intentionalities that typically escape human conscious experience. All chapters are original to this volume, written by leading international scholars in the philosophy of communication who cross several disciplinary boundaries in the human sciences.

This edited volume develops the philosophy of communication inspired by the scholarship of Richard L. Lanigan, with emphasis on communicology as a human science.

Calvin O. Schrag: Foreword: Speaking and Semiotics - Acknowledgements - Isaac E. Catt/Igor E. Klyukanov/Andrew R. Smith: Introduction: Communicology: What's in a Name? - Section One: Founding(s) - Andrew R. Smith: Decolonizing Research Praxis: Embodiment, Border Thinking and Theory Construction in the Human Sciences - Corey Anton: Lanigan's "Encyclopedic Dictionary": Key Concepts, Insights, and Advances - Horst Ruthrof: Communicability as Ground of Communicology: Impulses and Impediments - Frank Macke: The Human, the Family, and the Vécu of Semiotic Phenomenology: Lanigan's Communicology in the Context of Life Itself - Section Two: Tropologic(s) - William B. Gomes: Communicational Aspects in Experimental Phenomenological Studies on Cognition: Theory and Methodology - Igor E. Klyukanov: The Monstrosity of Adduction - Alexander Kozin: Is Martin Heidegger's Fourfold a Semiotic Square? - Eric E. Peterson/Kristin M. Langellier: Communicology and the Practice of Coding in Qualitative Communication Research - Section Three: Trans/formations - Ronald C. Arnett/Susan Mancino/Hannah Karolak: Emmanuel Levinas: The Turning of Semioethics - Isaac E. Catt: Mental Health in the Communication Matrix: A Semiotic Phenomenology of Depression Medicine - Jacqueline M. Martinez: Decolonial Phenomenological Practice: Communicology Across the Cultural and Political Borders of the North-South and West-East Divides - Hong Wang: In the Context of Communicology: Issues of Technical Risk Communication About Sustainability - Section Four: Voicing Bodies/Embodying Voices - Deborah Eicher-Catt: Authoring Life Writing as a Technology of the Self: A Communicological Perspective on the Concept of Voice - Pat Arneson: Communicative Possibilities in/of a Glance - Maureen Connolly/Tom D. Craig: Laban and Lanigan: Shall We Dance? - Thaddeus Martin: Lexis Agonistic and Lexis Graphike: Translation from Library Document to Museum Monument - Section Five: Horizons of Communicability - Vincent Colapietro: The Subject at Hand - Jason Hannan: Being in Speech: Inferentialism, Historicism, and Metaphysics of Intentionality - Johan Siebers: The Theory of Perfective Drift - Thomas J. Pace, Jr.: Afterword: Richard L. Lanigan: A Fifty Year Legacy - Appendix A: Richard L. Lanigan's Biography and Curriculum Vitae - Appendix B: Richard L. Lanigan's Publications, Presentations, Thesis and Dissertation Direction - Index.