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“The Value of Communicology” MIND FOR LIFE PODCAST (YouTube: https://youtu.be/iHcNXYR44YA; Liste... more “The Value of Communicology” MIND FOR LIFE PODCAST (YouTube: https://youtu.be/iHcNXYR44YA; Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mind-for-life/id1220165343?i=1000589479780) , 5 December 2022. Video run-time is 2 hours. Interviewer is Jeff Bogaczyk (Ph.D., Communication & Rhetorical Studies, Duquesne University). For interested persons, there are several supplementary handouts in PDF form in the HANDCHARTS section of this Lanigan webpage. 64 views
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YouTube Online Description: This interview was recorded in October 2001 at the annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America at the University of Toronto, Victoria College. A four-minute excerpt from this interview titled “Richard Lanigan: The Difference Between Fact and Opinion,” is also posted. This 30 minute video is the full interview. It was originally recorded on VHS tape and is unedited except to add titles and transitions. Richard spoke for about 25 minutes in response to my questions about Peirce and learning. Then I pause to ask another question about facts and opinions and Richard responded for about four minutes. The recording ends with a brief moment of Richard talking with John Deely and Alan Harris in the lobby of Victoria College between conference sessions. I am very grateful to Richard Lanigan for granting this interview, for his brilliant scholarship, mentoring, support, and friendship. Elliot Gaines 43 views
BOOKS by Richard L Lanigan
Analyzes the phenomenology of perception in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the phenomenolo... more Analyzes the phenomenology of perception in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the phenomenology of expression in the work of Michel Foucault. Focus on the interrelation of philosophy and human science in the study of Discourse and methodology application based on the Trivium (Logic, Rhetoric, Grammar) and the Communicology model of Roman Jakobson. Unique focus on Foucault’s use of the Scholastic model of hermeneutics for the study of at four levels of the Speaking-Subject: Parole (Attribution; non-rational), Langue (Articulation; ir-rational), Langage (Designation; un-rational), Discours (Derivation; rational) in the tradition of Émile Benveniste, A. J. Greimas, and Roland Barthes.
Communicology dictionary with theory construction and methodology definitions as a human science.
First comprehensive explication of the Philosophy of Communication in two parts as (1) Communicol... more First comprehensive explication of the Philosophy of Communication in two parts as (1) Communicology and (2) Semiology within the methodological context of Phenomenology as Applied Research. Each Part contains two sections: (1) Eidetic Studies based in Logic and (2) Empirical Studies based in Experimentation as Lived-Experience. Thus, a unique Discourse comparison of both the Philosophy Approach (eidetic studies grounded in logic) and the Human Science Approach (empirical studies grounded in linguistics).
Application of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault discourse theory to the problem of relig... more Application of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault discourse theory to the problem of religious tolerance. Case study of the Irish Catholic Question in Ireland (1702-1800) and in England (1801-1829). Uses phenomenological method of (1) Description, (2) Reduction, and (3) Interpretation.
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The present study, Speech Act Phenomenology, is in part a critique of the speech act theory as fo... more The present study, Speech Act Phenomenology, is in part a critique of the speech act theory as found in Analytic philosophy in the Anglo-American tradition. The theory offers a description of speech performance, that is, the structure of speech act "relationships", and the content of speech acts as "meaning". The primary statement of the speech act theory that is examined is that presented by Austin. A secondary concern is the formation of the theory as presented by Searle and Grice. The limitations of the analytic speech act theory are specified by applying the theory as an explanation of "human communication". This conceptual examination of "communication" suggests that the philosophic method of "analysis" does not resolve the antinomy of "language , nature, and function". Basically, the conceptual distinctions of the speech act theory (i.e., locutions, illocutions, and perlocutions) are found to be empty as a comprehensive explanation of the concept "communication". The study includes an Appendix, "Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Communication", that provides the general reader with an introduction to the phenomenological theory construction that is utilized in the main text. The theory includes: (1) The recognition of the "presence", of phenomena by description, that is, a "primacy of perception"; (2) The reflective location of meaning by structural reduction, that is, a "primordial expression"; and, (3) The new cogito of intentionality or lived experience in which one recognizes the "I am able to", the "I can" [Husserl] rather than the Cartesian formula of the "I think", the "I feel". As humanistic approaches to the study of language behavior [Linguistics], the conceptual analytic viewof a "linguistic phenomenology" (Austin, Searle, Grice) is compared with the existential, semiotic view of a "phenomenology of speaking" (Merleau-Ponty-Ponty, Benveniste, Barthes). Thus, the present book offers for the first time a philosophic confrontation between the Anglo-American speech act theory ( a "grammatology" [Derrida]) and the European tradition of communication theory (a "new rhetoric" [Perelman]) as a human science of Discourse [Gusdorf].
An analysis of existential communication focused on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's place in the study of... more An analysis of existential communication focused on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's place in the study of logic and discourse from both an American (USA) and continental philosophy perspective. (1) Phenomenalism is compared to Phenomenology as a logic method, (2) existential modalities of direct and indirect communication are examined, (3) models of semiology are compared (Peirce, Morris, Ogden and Richards, Russel, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre), (4) Merleau-Ponty’s radical cogito as intentionality, (5) existential speaking (parole, langue, langage, discours), and (6) Film Studies / Cinema Theory pop Perception is used as an empirical example of eidetic principles.
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Articles explore the domains of Axiology (Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics, Rhetorics) in Communicolo... more Articles explore the domains of Axiology (Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics, Rhetorics) in Communicology as both Philosophy and Human Science. The focus is the Perspectives Model of Human Communication.
The American Journal of Semiotics, 2017
The special issue on Ernst Cassirer’s Communicology takes up his concern about the integration of... more The special issue on Ernst Cassirer’s Communicology takes up his concern about the integration of the Human Sciences with Philosophy. His focus is largely Kantian and Hegelian with a view to the “new humanism” consciously experienced as the blending of semiotics and phenomenology, especially in the context of French thought since the Second World War. Prior to this French turn, all of Europe was concerned with the growing conflict centered on the research methodologies appropriate to the modern world. Reminiscent of the great debate between“theology”and“arts/ sciences” at Université de Paris in the age of Thomas Aquinas (Doctor Communis), and at Oxford University with Roger Bacon (Doctor Mirabillis), a “crisis of European sciences” confronted Europe, and especially Germany, after World War One—a time in which the contested rational conceptions of the universities where also being tested by the public demand for reasonableness in daily living. In 1919, Ernst Cassirer became the first Chair of the Philosophy Department at the newly founded University of Hamburg, which then became the acknowledged center of humanities study in Germany. Like many others, as a Jew, he fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and emigrated to the USA. He taught at Yale University where one of his doctoral students was the philosopher Hubert Griggs Alexander—who was my teacher at the University of New Mexico. Alexander was just as much an anthropologist, having been a fellow student with Benjamin Lee Whorf in Edward Sapir’s seminars at Yale. Alexander’s first position at New Mexico was as field research assistant to Clyde Kluckhohm, the expert on Diné [Navajo] culture. Alexander was Richard Lanigan's teacher and mentor at the University of New Mexico.
SCHUTZIAN RESEARCH: A Yearbook of Lifeworldly Phenomenology and Qualitative Social Science, 2011
First publication of original materials written by Alfred Schutz and analytic commentary Articles... more First publication of original materials written by Alfred Schutz and analytic commentary Articles by several authors.
SEMIOTICA, 1982
Special Issue devoted to a comprehensive survey of research in philosophy and the human sciences,... more Special Issue devoted to a comprehensive survey of research in philosophy and the human sciences, especially communicology and linguistics, where Phenomenology and Semiology intersect with mutual influence.
Proceedings: SCA Doctoral Honors Seminar, 1979
The papers Included here were selected for presentat ion at a Speech Conmunication Association sp... more The papers Included here were selected for presentat ion at a Speech Conmunication Association sponsored Doctoral Honors Seminar held at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, April 2-4, 1979. All are written by persons currently pursuing advanced degrees in speech communication. The critical conmentaries were written by the senior critics for the seminar to reflect a few of the issues discussed. Practical limitations made it impossible to pro duce here any of the actual seminar discussion.
Several individuals and groups actively contributed to making the seminar both possible and a stimulating, beneficial experience. Only a few can be recognized here. Valuable financial assistance for the seminar came from the Graduate School and from the College of Conmunications and Fine Arts at SIUC. A grant from the Research Board of the Speech Conmunicat ion Associat ion was instrumental in the production and distribution of this volume. Len Hawes, Richard Lanigan, Michael McGuire, Joe Pilotta, and Larry Rosenfield all gave generously of their time and energy in serving as senior critics. Professor Lanigan further helped in the selection process and in innumerable other ways.
Members of the Department of Speech Communication at SIUC both collectively and individually consistent ly came through wi th resources and help when needed. In particular, Ed McGlone, Chairman, provided the encouragement, counsel, and, at times, sheer work necessary to carry the seminar and publica tion of this volume through.
The real credit for this volume, however, must go to Pansy, Doris, Sandi, and Beth who went well beyond any reasonable call of duty to help with the seminar and prepare the final manuscript for publication. I am, of course, responsible for any errors or omissions. Stanley Deetz
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Translatability of Emotions: Cross-Cultural Transdisciplinary Encounters,, 2022
TEN NONVERBAL SEMIOTIC SYSTEMS ARE DISCUSSED: EIDETIC (Linguistics, Mathematics, Logics) AND EMPI... more TEN NONVERBAL SEMIOTIC SYSTEMS ARE DISCUSSED: EIDETIC (Linguistics, Mathematics, Logics) AND EMPIRICAL (Proxemics, Chronemics, Ocularics, Kinesics, Haptics, Vocalics, and Olfactorics).
Emotion displays on your face are an iconic sign of comportment—your disposition to act in a particular way. Most importantly, these nonverbal kinemes suggest the semiotic system (Peirce’s tone, token, type) that will contextually code the action impact of your verbal message. In short, how your face looks (tone) when you speak (token) will set the meaning frame (type) for what your listener hears you say (a translation with value significations). These phenomenological facts are most obvious to persons who engage in transcultural communication. At this level of interaction, the full dynamic system of (1) intra-personal, (2) inter-personal, (3) intra-group, and (4) inter-group communication is on visual display. The analysis uses the basic model of space (proxemics) and kinesics (human body motion). Communicology includes research and application on the emotion cycle of face displays (Happiness > Surprise > Fear > Anger > Disgust > Sadness > [Happiness] ). I review the cross-cultural research on the technology of “face recognition software” now current as a growing ethical and political concern for communication policy where there is a cultural perception preference. The analysis compares and contrasts Egocentric (US America) and Sociocentric (PR China) cultures of communication.
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Denkbild: Memory Voices in Shadows of Light and Dark Shade (4 November 2021)
Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective, 2021
Abstract The analysis takes up the conjunction of semiotics and cybernetics as a problem in theor... more Abstract The analysis takes up the conjunction of semiotics and cybernetics as a problem in theory construction in the human sciences. From a philosophical per- spective, this is also the ontological problem of communicology: the disciplinary study of human communication. My analysis suggests current conceptions of “semiotics” and “cybernetics” are misunderstood because “information” is assumed as synonymous with “communication” and that the axioms of “mathematics” are identical to those of “logics”. The evidence contained in the misunderstandings is a conflation of reductionist ecology ideas about the “environment” differentiation of (1) human beings [apperceptive organic life], (2) animals [perceptive organic life], and machines [inorganic and constructed mechanisms]. The communicological view argues that a correct understanding of these issues requires a competence in logics and linguistics to determine the metatheory criteria for choosing evidence among humans, animals, and machines. The domain thematic is the phenomenological synergism of human embodiment as expression and perception. In this context, my criterion for evidence is the structure or form of a pure concept of reason (choice making judgment) that is given a priori in consciousness, the notion demonstrated by Immanuel Kant: A notion is a rule that you know before you experience it as a result.
In the classic Greek conception, axiology is the study of values or decisions displayed in behavi... more In the classic Greek conception, axiology is the study of values or decisions displayed in behavior (ethics, aesthetics, politics, rhetoric). Whereas, dialogue is the study of discourse or choices displayed in judgement (dialectic, sophistic, rhetoric, maieutic). I examine, in a preliminary way, the dynamics of human communicology (decision choices) wherein the method of semiotic phenomenology accounts for Husserl’s (1929; 1933) maxim that “subjectivity is intersubjectivity” (155). The primary methodology for this analysis is the chiasm logic of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, identifying middle voice [G. gērys] as the essence of the human.
Historical review of Communication Theory versus Information Theory, several models explained inc... more Historical review of Communication Theory versus Information Theory, several models explained including Bühler, Jakobson, Ruesch & Bateson, Shannon, and Alexander. Focus on the contrast between Human and Machine communication. Winner of 2015 "Top Book Chapter", Philosophy of Communication Division, National Communication Association (USA).
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YouTube Online Description: This interview was recorded in October 2001 at the annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America at the University of Toronto, Victoria College. A four-minute excerpt from this interview titled “Richard Lanigan: The Difference Between Fact and Opinion,” is also posted. This 30 minute video is the full interview. It was originally recorded on VHS tape and is unedited except to add titles and transitions. Richard spoke for about 25 minutes in response to my questions about Peirce and learning. Then I pause to ask another question about facts and opinions and Richard responded for about four minutes. The recording ends with a brief moment of Richard talking with John Deely and Alan Harris in the lobby of Victoria College between conference sessions. I am very grateful to Richard Lanigan for granting this interview, for his brilliant scholarship, mentoring, support, and friendship. Elliot Gaines
BOOKS by Richard L Lanigan
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Several individuals and groups actively contributed to making the seminar both possible and a stimulating, beneficial experience. Only a few can be recognized here. Valuable financial assistance for the seminar came from the Graduate School and from the College of Conmunications and Fine Arts at SIUC. A grant from the Research Board of the Speech Conmunicat ion Associat ion was instrumental in the production and distribution of this volume. Len Hawes, Richard Lanigan, Michael McGuire, Joe Pilotta, and Larry Rosenfield all gave generously of their time and energy in serving as senior critics. Professor Lanigan further helped in the selection process and in innumerable other ways.
Members of the Department of Speech Communication at SIUC both collectively and individually consistent ly came through wi th resources and help when needed. In particular, Ed McGlone, Chairman, provided the encouragement, counsel, and, at times, sheer work necessary to carry the seminar and publica tion of this volume through.
The real credit for this volume, however, must go to Pansy, Doris, Sandi, and Beth who went well beyond any reasonable call of duty to help with the seminar and prepare the final manuscript for publication. I am, of course, responsible for any errors or omissions. Stanley Deetz
BOOK CHAPTERS by Richard L Lanigan
Emotion displays on your face are an iconic sign of comportment—your disposition to act in a particular way. Most importantly, these nonverbal kinemes suggest the semiotic system (Peirce’s tone, token, type) that will contextually code the action impact of your verbal message. In short, how your face looks (tone) when you speak (token) will set the meaning frame (type) for what your listener hears you say (a translation with value significations). These phenomenological facts are most obvious to persons who engage in transcultural communication. At this level of interaction, the full dynamic system of (1) intra-personal, (2) inter-personal, (3) intra-group, and (4) inter-group communication is on visual display. The analysis uses the basic model of space (proxemics) and kinesics (human body motion). Communicology includes research and application on the emotion cycle of face displays (Happiness > Surprise > Fear > Anger > Disgust > Sadness > [Happiness] ). I review the cross-cultural research on the technology of “face recognition software” now current as a growing ethical and political concern for communication policy where there is a cultural perception preference. The analysis compares and contrasts Egocentric (US America) and Sociocentric (PR China) cultures of communication.
YouTube Online Description: This interview was recorded in October 2001 at the annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America at the University of Toronto, Victoria College. A four-minute excerpt from this interview titled “Richard Lanigan: The Difference Between Fact and Opinion,” is also posted. This 30 minute video is the full interview. It was originally recorded on VHS tape and is unedited except to add titles and transitions. Richard spoke for about 25 minutes in response to my questions about Peirce and learning. Then I pause to ask another question about facts and opinions and Richard responded for about four minutes. The recording ends with a brief moment of Richard talking with John Deely and Alan Harris in the lobby of Victoria College between conference sessions. I am very grateful to Richard Lanigan for granting this interview, for his brilliant scholarship, mentoring, support, and friendship. Elliot Gaines
AFTERWARD by Thomas J. Pace
PETER LANG PUBLISHERS, INC.
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Paperback Edition—ISBN 978-1-4331-4115-7;
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DOI 10.3726/b10835;
Pages 514;
Appendix——Richard L. Lanigan BIBLIOGRAPHY and VITA
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BOOK AWARD –– OUTSTANDING EDITED BOOK FOR 2018,
PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION DIVISION,
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Several individuals and groups actively contributed to making the seminar both possible and a stimulating, beneficial experience. Only a few can be recognized here. Valuable financial assistance for the seminar came from the Graduate School and from the College of Conmunications and Fine Arts at SIUC. A grant from the Research Board of the Speech Conmunicat ion Associat ion was instrumental in the production and distribution of this volume. Len Hawes, Richard Lanigan, Michael McGuire, Joe Pilotta, and Larry Rosenfield all gave generously of their time and energy in serving as senior critics. Professor Lanigan further helped in the selection process and in innumerable other ways.
Members of the Department of Speech Communication at SIUC both collectively and individually consistent ly came through wi th resources and help when needed. In particular, Ed McGlone, Chairman, provided the encouragement, counsel, and, at times, sheer work necessary to carry the seminar and publica tion of this volume through.
The real credit for this volume, however, must go to Pansy, Doris, Sandi, and Beth who went well beyond any reasonable call of duty to help with the seminar and prepare the final manuscript for publication. I am, of course, responsible for any errors or omissions. Stanley Deetz
Emotion displays on your face are an iconic sign of comportment—your disposition to act in a particular way. Most importantly, these nonverbal kinemes suggest the semiotic system (Peirce’s tone, token, type) that will contextually code the action impact of your verbal message. In short, how your face looks (tone) when you speak (token) will set the meaning frame (type) for what your listener hears you say (a translation with value significations). These phenomenological facts are most obvious to persons who engage in transcultural communication. At this level of interaction, the full dynamic system of (1) intra-personal, (2) inter-personal, (3) intra-group, and (4) inter-group communication is on visual display. The analysis uses the basic model of space (proxemics) and kinesics (human body motion). Communicology includes research and application on the emotion cycle of face displays (Happiness > Surprise > Fear > Anger > Disgust > Sadness > [Happiness] ). I review the cross-cultural research on the technology of “face recognition software” now current as a growing ethical and political concern for communication policy where there is a cultural perception preference. The analysis compares and contrasts Egocentric (US America) and Sociocentric (PR China) cultures of communication.
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Communicology is the science of human communication. This definition derives from the use of semiotic phenomenology as a logic based method to determine how human beings come to endow (Husserl's sense of Stiftung) themselves and found their world with meaning. Such an analysis inevitably leads to a description of certain metaphysical and epistemological absolutes: (1) Edmund Husserl's absolute that " subjectivity is intersubjectivity " , (2) Maurice Merleau-Ponty's subsequent absolute that " the body is our general medium for having a world " , and the combinatory absolute suggested by Merleau-Ponty that (3) " It is by communicating with the world that we communicate beyond all doubt with ourselves. We hold time in its entirety, and we are present to ourselves because we are present to the world. " These three eidetic absolutes can be demonstrated empirically by describing the communicological extinction (a phantasm: mental representation of a real object) of the pain in a human " phantom limb " as explicated by neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran.
Pepper is the transitional scholar linking the two generations. He is not as publicly known as Dewey, but Pepper is certainly a continuing major influence inasmuch as his textbook Ethics (1960) is a philosophical classic still in popular use. This textbook summarizes his major work The Sources of Value, which is a fundamental systemic statement of Contextualist philosophy as first explicated in his World Hypothesis (1942).2
English and Mandarin Chinese. Summary report of Lanigan research on Netizen Communicology.
American semiotics derives much of its success with applied communication because it is grounded in Peircian logic and rhetoric theory. Peirce believes human communication is a semiotic relation that we commonly name “creativity”. The logic combines Probability (Tychism), Continuity (Synechism), and our capacity to be mistaken (Fallibilism). The theory is illustrated by a review of the Peircian logic and its contemporary model used by Michel Foucault. The applied aspects are explicated through the methodology models of the architect Buckminster Fuller, the business organization consultant William Gordon, and the community organizer Saul Alinsky. The problematic of “cultural perception” in creativity is addressed using Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty who suggest how perspective shifts as between East and West. Included are detailed color figures illustrating the perception models of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.
Keywords: aesthetics, chiasm, ethics, communicology, idealism, phenomenology, rhetoric, tropes
Richard L. Lanigan,, “Franklin H. Knower (1901–1993)—A Model for Communicology”: edited reprint with an introduction, Review of Communication, 18, no. 4 (2018), pp. 391-413. DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2018.1517276
The foundation of disciplines is often associated with initial books and their authors. The discipline of speech–communication– communicology is no exception. Books by Albert Craig Baird, Lester Thonssen, and Franklin Hayward Knower serve as the definition of our early discipline. This article is about foresight— the anticipation of future developments for what was initially called “general speech,” whose practitioners have ever since been known as generalists. Departments and schools of communicology are now emerging worldwide as a synthesis of problematics and thematics that used to be called general speech. Knower suggested in 1962 that the beginning of theoretical and applied coherence must begin with a descriptive single-term name. Long overlooked, if known at all, and certainly never reprinted, is Knower’s candidate for a name and definition of a discipline he called communicology. This article is an edited
Key Words: Chiasm, Double-Bind, Labor, Leisure, Play, Rhetoric, Tropic Logic, Work
Data Note: In the applied example, the “Opinion, Belief, Fact” Apposition is Kant used by Peirce. See: (1) Richard L. Lanigan,“Immanuel Kant on the Philosophy of Communicology: The Tropic Logic of Rhetoric and Semiotics”, Semiotica 227, pp. 273-315 (2019); (2), Richard L. Lanigan, “Charles S. Peirce on Phenomenology: Communicology, Codes, and Messages, or, Phenomenology, Synechism, and Fallibilism”, The American Journal of Semiotics, 30, nos. 1-2, (2014), pp. 139-158.
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Note: sound begins after 35 seconds. This interview was recorded in October 2001 at the annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America at the University of Toronto, Victoria College. A four-minute excerpt from this interview titled “Richard Lanigan: The Difference Between Fact and Opinion,” is also posted. This 30 minute video is the full interview. It was originally recorded on VHS tape and is unedited except to add titles and transitions. Richard spoke for about 25 minutes in response to my questions about Peirce and learning. Then I pause to ask another question about facts and opinions and Richard responded for about four minutes. The recording ends with a brief moment of Richard talking with John Deely and Alan Harris in the lobby of Victoria College between conference sessions. I am very grateful to Richard Lanigan for granting this interview, for his brilliant scholarship, mentoring, support, and friendship. For more about Richard Lanigan, see Communicology.Org For more about Elliot Gaines, see www.wright.edu/~elliot.gaines. Elliot Gaines, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Wright State University, Semiotic Society of America Past President, International
Communicology Institute Fellow. Email: [email protected]
Communicology as a Science of Human Discourse; Semiotic Self in Modelling Systems of Reality; Diversities of Semiospheres in Biocene & Anthropocene; Semiotic Manifestation of Prejudices & Stereotypes; Semiotic Adaptability & Resilience of Living Systems; Indoctrination & Propaganda Through Media Literacy; Linguistic Phenomenology in Education & Communication; Semiotics as an Art of Lie: Fake & Counterfactuality;
Ethics & Morality in Public & Private Lifeworld Domains; Epistemic Divides in Phenomenal Worlds Beyond Words; Multiple Identity in Interlingual & Intercultural Contacts; Semiocrisis, Semioethics, Technoethics & Netiquette.
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