Kenneth MacKendrick wrote:
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> Habermas is a philosopher and sociologist. He providing a theoretical
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It doesn't seem to me that communication is sufficiently abstractable from the conditions in which it occurs to be the object of a separate discipline. There can be a theory of social relations, which will implicitly incorporate analysis of communication, but "theory of communication" is incoherent.
How would you apply your analysis to phatic speech? (And note, one of the deficiencies of e-list communication seems to be that e-mail suppresses all evidence of phatic speech. It simply doesn't exist in cyberspace! And yet it is probably the most important use of speech.
Carrol