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ICI Logo The Discipline of Communicology                                  


 

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

(Continued in Précis: Communicology)
 
 

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 Upcoming 2012:  ICNAP  IV 

"Interdisciplinarity Beyond the Academy: Lived Worlds of Consequence for Academic Work"

Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists

25 - 27 May 2012

Fordham University

New York City, USA

 FOR CONFERENCE INFORMATION, GO TO the ICI "Announcements Page"

Co-Sponsored by the International Communicology Institute

 

  Upcoming 2012: International Conference—Languages in Contact 2012

Organized by the Committee for Philology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw Branch, Poland, and, the Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw, Poland

26 - 27 May 2012

Venue: The National Labour Inspectorate Training Center in Wroclaw, Poland

Principal Organizer: Piotr P. Chruszczewski, Fellow of I.C.I.

 For Conference Information go to the "Announcments Page".

 

 Upcoming 2012: The Nanjing 11th World Congress of Semiotics  

"Global Semiotics: Bridging Different Civilizations"

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SEMIOTIC STUDIES

5 - 9 October 2012

Nanjing Normal University

Nanjing, P. R. China

REDUCED FEE DEADLINE APPROACHING:  30 JUNE 2012 

Hotels are filling!

See "Announcement" page

►Call for PapersSpecial Round Table: "Semiotics in America (USA):

Current Trends", contact the ICI Director for details.

►Call for PapersSpecial Round Table: "Communicology and Semiotics:

The Phenomenological Heritage in Cultural Discursive Patterns and Practices",

contact the ICI Director for details.

                                                                              

 ICI Administration


 

ICI Logo Institute Director  

Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Communicology (Emeritus)
Southern Illinois University, USA

Executive Office — Communicology.org

CAPITOL HILL TOWER - Suite PH06
1000 NEW JERSEY AVENUE. S.E.
WASHINGTON, DC  20003-3377,  USA

 

  rlanigan@mac.com

 

ICI Logo Director of Integrated Media

Thomas D. Craig, D.Phil., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Centre for Applied Disability Studies 
Brock University
St. Catharines, ON  L2S 3A1
CANADA

  aporia@gmail.com

 

ICI Logo 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)

 

AUSTRALIA                                                  ♦ 

• Horst Ruthrof (Australia)

 

EUROPE                                                      ♦

• Jeff Bernard (Austria) [✝]

• Gloria Withalm (Austria)
• Lennart Nørreklit (Denmark)
• Winfried Nöth (Germany)
• Roland Posner (Germany)

• Zdzisław Wąsik (Poland)

• Traian D. Stanciulescu (Romania)

 

MIDDLE EAST                                               ♦

• Mehdi Mohsenian-Rad (Iran)

 

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 MEMBER, Union of International Associations

http://www.uia.be

ICI Logo Representative:  

Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D. 


 

   I A S S    

International Association for Semiotic Studies

Association Internationale de Sémiotique  

Asociación Internacional de Semiótica
Internationale Vereinigung für Semiotik

 

 MEMBER, International Association for Semiotic Studies

http://www.iass-ais.org

ICI Logo Representatives:    

Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D., Executive Committee, USA Representative; Past Vice President

Maureen Connolly, Ph.D., Executive Committee, ICI Representative

Note: Many other ICI Fellows sit on the IASS Executive Committee as representatives of their own country.


 

   MEMBER, Organization of Phenomenological Organizations

http://www.o-p-o.net

ICI Logo Representatives:

Thomas D. Craig, D. Phil., Ph.D. 

Maureen Connolly, Ph.D.

Note: Many other ICI Fellows from disciplinary research associations and societies are OPO Representatives.


 

MEMBER, Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists

www.icnap.org

ICI Logo Representative:

Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D., ICNAP Founding Member


 

     ICI Founded at SIU on 7 July 2000

ICI Logo Founding Director:

Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Communicology 
School of Communication, Department of Speech Communication