A Battle with Uncertainty 1 of Communication as an Academic Discipline: Title Uncertainty
I. Boldea (Coord.), Studies on Literature, Discourse and Multicultural Dialogue (pp.493-504). Târgu Mureş: Editura Arhipelag XXI.
12 Pages Posted: 22 Feb 2016
Date Written: 2013
Abstract
This study falls within the basic research component of General Communication Science and deals with one of the major ontological uncertainty of communication as an academic discipline: uncertainty about the title. It is considered a meta-analysis of denominative options. First, it appears that, in fact, there are four communication uncertainties: uncertainty regarding title, uncertainty about status, uncertainty of place and uncertainty of unificationfragmentation. Then in a constructive-cognitive-cogitative approach of titles under which communication is studied (“Communication”, “Communication theory”, “Communicology”, “Communication study”, “Communication studies”, “Communication science”, "Sciences de l' information et de la communication"); it highlights the uncertainty on the title. Our meta-analytic approach is to remove a few nuclei of certainty from the mass of uncertainty. From these ideational formations of certainty crystallized by meta-analysis General Communication Science results a possible, rigorous, robust, flexible and convergent title, consisting of Fundamental Communication Science, Applied Communication Research and "Grounded Practical" Communication Application. The war with the uncertainties must continue: the other three are to be studied.
Keywords: communication, uncertainty, meta-analysis, denominative options, Communication theory
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