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The Discipline of Communicology

Communicology is the science of human communication. One of the Human Science disciplines, it uses the research methods of semiotics and phenomenology to explicate human consciousness and behavioral embodiment within global culture. Cognate subdiscipline applications include: (1) Media Communicology, (2) Clinical Communicology, (3) Art Communicology, and (4) Philosophy of Communicology.

(Continued in Definition: Communicology)

Communicology is the study of human discourse in all of its semiotic and phenomenological manifestations of embodied consciousness and practice in the world of other people and their environment. As a young discipline in Human Science research, Communicology is the critical study of discourse and practice, especially the expressive body as mediated by the perception of cultural signs and codes. Communicology uses the methodology of semiotic phenomenology in which the expressive body discloses cultural codes, and cultural codes shape the perceptive body—an ongoing, dialectical, complex helix of twists and turns constituting the reflectivity, reversibility, and reflexivity of consciousness and experience.

(Contined in Précis: Communicology)

Featured Research Conferences

(Details in Announcements and Conferences)

 Upcoming: "Across the Generations: Legacies of Hope and Meaning"

International Conference sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics in collaboration with the International Communicology Institute

Fordham University, New York, New York, USA. 11-13 September 2009.

Assisting Organizer: Corey Anton, I.S.G. Board of Directors and Fellow of I.C.I.

 Upcoming: "Culture of Communication, Communication of Culture"

10th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies in collaboration with the International Communicology Institute
La Coruña, Spain. 22-26 September 2009. Information online: http://www.semio2009.org

Principal Organizer: José María Paz Gago, Secretary General of I.A.S.S. and Fellow of I.C.I.

 In Development: "Communicology and Cognitive Science in East-West Cultures"

Fifth Biennial Summer Symposium and Professional Development Seminar

Beijing, People's Republic of China

ICI Administration

Institute Director

Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D.

University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Communicology (Emeritus)

Southern Illinois University, USA

I.C.I. Executive Office, Washington, DC

8117 Glenhurst Drive, Suite One

Fairfax Station, VA 22039-3145

USA

Voice: (703) 495-9792

rlanigan@mac.com

Director of Integrated Media

Thomas D. Craig, D.Phil., Ph.D.
Human Communication Consultant
Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Educational Technologies
Brock University
St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1
CANADA

aporia@gmail.com

ICI Bureau of Regional — Continental Coordinators

Africa
Jean-Claude Mbarga (Cameroon)
Keyan Tomaselli (South Africa)

America (North)
Paul Bouissac (Canada)
Maureen Connolly (Canada)
Thomas D. Craig (Canada)

America (South)
Fernando Andacht (Uruguay)
José Enrique Finol (Venezuela)
William B. Gomes (Brazil)
Lucia Santaella (Brazil)

Asia
Shushan Cai (P.R. China)
Ersu Ding (P.R. China)
Han-liang Chang (Taiwan)
Du-Won Lee (South Korea)
Horst Ruthrof (Australia)

Europe
Jeff Bernard (Austria)
Gloria Withalm (Austria)
Lennart Nørreklit (Denmark)
Winfried Nöth (Germany)
Roland Posner (Germany)