Communication and Humanties: a post-conventional approac

Correia, João Carlos

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Communication and Humanties: a post-conventional approac

2017-12-20Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Correia, João Carlos
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dc.date.issued	2017-12-20
dc.description.abstract	What do humanities bring to the study of communication? What concept of humanities can help us understand communication? Do communication studies belong to the humanities or to the social sciences field? In spite of a recent turn in communication research towards empirical data that seems to be supported by a generation of young researchers, communication sciences have almost always maintained, in their many branches, the existence of critical approaches highlighting a powerful link to the role of language and symbols and their many connections to social structures, placing particular emphasis on the phenomena of meaning and relation. Human life is essentially a life of meaning, of reflexive thought and communication. My hypothesis involves considering this concern with relation as a social phenomenon as what distinguishes it epistemically. I also believe that this distinction involves extensive attention on the nature of the human, helping maintain a productive bridge with humanities and culture. Issues such as the role of symbols in social life are related to the constitution of subjectivity and the transmission of cultural heritage in life-world, bringing questions concerning truth, rationality, the conditions necessary for autonomy of the self and the nature of human agency to an on-going theoretical debate. Following this tradition, attempts are made to establish communication as a discipline which finds its foundations in the concept of mediated interaction and as the discipline that expresses the relational nature of human agency. Following this perspective, the field of communication studies, in a somewhat similar way to cultural studies, has redefined itself by dealing with new cultural approaches, with the help of American cultural studies (particularly James Carey), critical theory, hermeneutics, symbolic interactionism, and critical realism as theoretical keys to unveiling the dialogue between humanities and social sciences that crosses through the communications field	pt_PT
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dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
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dc.subject	Communication	pt_PT
dc.subject	Humanities	pt_PT
dc.title	Communication and Humanties: a post-conventional approac	pt_PT
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oaire.citation.endPage	152	pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue	25	pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage	143	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	Estudos em Comunicação	pt_PT
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person.givenName	João Carlos Ferreira
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