Integrating the persons communicating: Towards a lay-oriented science of communication – defining the research agenda
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Standard
Integrating the persons communicating : Towards a lay-oriented science of communication – defining the research agenda . / Hermann, Jesper.
In: Language Sciences, Vol. 33, No. 4, 01.07.2011, p. 575-578.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Harvard
APA
Vancouver
Author
Bibtex
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrating the persons communicating
T2 - Towards a lay-oriented science of communication – defining the research agenda
AU - Hermann, Jesper
PY - 2011/7/1
Y1 - 2011/7/1
N2 - The paper presents some grounds for the working out of insights developed by Roy Harris and the fellow integrationalists, including the person-centered focus of Otto Jespersen when dealing with future communication studies. Whenever we are speaking of ‘something verbal’, immediately we are opening a Pandora’s box of thought habits and beliefs, connected with our equally inevitable inveterate notion of ‘language’. If, however, we on the contrary notice how people in their daily practices actually go about integrating their actions with their expressions and vice versa, suddenly the traditional notion of ‘language’ evaporates, and we are left solely with persons and their understandings, actions and expressions to be investigated by us professionals, collaborating with the persons under scrutiny.
AB - The paper presents some grounds for the working out of insights developed by Roy Harris and the fellow integrationalists, including the person-centered focus of Otto Jespersen when dealing with future communication studies. Whenever we are speaking of ‘something verbal’, immediately we are opening a Pandora’s box of thought habits and beliefs, connected with our equally inevitable inveterate notion of ‘language’. If, however, we on the contrary notice how people in their daily practices actually go about integrating their actions with their expressions and vice versa, suddenly the traditional notion of ‘language’ evaporates, and we are left solely with persons and their understandings, actions and expressions to be investigated by us professionals, collaborating with the persons under scrutiny.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Habits
KW - Integrationism
KW - Person-centered view of language
KW - Psychology of Language
KW - William James
U2 - doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2011.04.015
DO - doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2011.04.015
M3 - Journal article
VL - 33
SP - 575
EP - 578
JO - Language Sciences
JF - Language Sciences
SN - 0388-0001
IS - 4
ER -
ID: 33477878