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Deconstructing Communication

Representation, Subject, and Economies of Exchange
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  • Deconstructing Communication by Briankle Chang
  • Deconstructing Communication by Briankle Chang
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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.
Release date Australia
February 21st, 1996
Pages
280
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
ISBN-13
9780816626458
Product ID
27157173

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