32611
Graduate Course
WiSe 17/18: Pragmatics of Communication
Harald Wenzel
Comments
This course offers an overview, discussion and evaluation of different strategies to build a theory of communication for the social sciences. Two approaches are obvious candidates to be covered: first, theories of the pragmatics of communication (in contrast to syntactics and semantics) – e.g. the theory of communicative action (Jürgen Habermas) and its sources, particularly speech act philosophy;. second, pragmatist theories of communication, e.g. the social psychology of George Herbert Mead and its extension into Symbolic Interactionism. -----
But these approaches are only a starting point. The course will provide insight into a variety of additional theories of communication from a pragmatist perspective, asking: In which way is communication conceptualized as a process of social action and as an element of the structures of society? -----
Literature: Jürgen Habermas (1979), Communication and the Evolution of Society, Boston: Beacon Press, Mead, George Herbert (1934), Mind, Self and Society: Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2017-10-16 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2017-10-23 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2017-10-30 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2017-11-06 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2017-11-13 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2017-11-20 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2017-11-27 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2017-12-04 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2017-12-11 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2017-12-18 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2018-01-08 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2018-01-15 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2018-01-22 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2018-01-29 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2018-02-05 16:00 - 18:00
Mon, 2018-02-12 16:00 - 18:00