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Situated at the intersection of current debates regarding meaning
and representation, this text casts doubt on the seeming innocence
of the activity of communication. Using poststructuralist literary
theory and philosophy, Chang argues that modern communication
theories fail to provide an adequate explanation for how
communication is possible. Through a detailed examination of the
basis of the idea of communication - with its semantic core of
"commonality" or the transcendence of difference - Chang argues
against the tendency of theorists to value understanding over
misunderstanding, clarity over ambiguity, order over disorder. To
this end the author revisits the thought of Derrida and considers
deconstruction in general. Specifically, he uses the critique of
the phenomenological tradition emerging from poststructuralism to
clarify the commitments and assumptions inherent in models of
communication.
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Ian McEwan
Lynn Wells
Hardcover
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Discovery Miles 26 800
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