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International Communicology Institute

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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.

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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. 

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ICI logo International Research Conferences Featuring Communicology  


 

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  ANNOUNCEMENTS, Conferences Calls, Calls for Papers

 

2013:  International Conference — USA

 

EMBODIMENT IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey

24 — 26 MAY 2013

Principal Organizer: Jacqueline M. Martinez, Fellow of I.C.I.

 

Sponsor:

The Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists

 

► NEW Submission Deadline:  1 MARCH  2013

► See Announcements for New Venue Details 

 

 2013: International Conference — Poland

 

WAYS TO PROTOLANGUAGE 3

Wrocław, POLAND

25 — 26 MAY 2013

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

 

► NEW Submissions Deadline:  31 March 2013

 

Sponsors: 

Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw, Poland 

Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna we Wrocławiu

 

Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

 

Centre for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

 

Katedra Filologii Angielskiej oraz CLES, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń

 

Committee for Philology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw Branch, Poland

Komisja Nauk Filologicznych, Polska Akademia Nauk, Oddział we Wrocławiu              

 

2013: International Conference — USA

 

PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION

6th ICI Summer Conference and First Annual Duquesne Conference

Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

9 — 13 JULY 2013  

 

Principal Organizers:  Ronald C. Arnett, Isaac E. Catt, Richard L. Lanigan, Fellows of I.C.I.

 

Sponsor:

Dept. of Communication & Rhetorical Studies

Duquesne University

Pittsburgh, Pennsyllvania, USA

 

 See ANNOUNCEMENTS for full venue details

New Information on the Hotel Discount and Book Display

 Abstracts Due 1 May 2013

 

2013: International Conference — USA

 

SEMIOTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA

38th Annual Meeting

Dayton, Ohio, USA

24 — 27 October 2013

 

Principal Organizer: Elliot Gaines, Fellow of I.C.I.

 

Abstracts Due:  1 June 2013

Details on the Announcements Page

 

 

 ICI Administration


 

ICI Logo Institute Director  

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

Executive Office — Communicology.org

CAPITOL HILL TOWER - Suite PH06
1000 NEW JERSEY AVENUE, S.E.
WASHINGTON, DC  20003-3377
USA
 
DC Transportation: "Navy Yard" Metro Station (by  Metro train or Circulator bus from "Union Station")

 

  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)

• Isaac E. Catt (USA)

• Deborah Eicher-Catt (USA)

 

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)

 

  I C I  ACCREDITATIONS and CERTIFIED AFFILIATIONS


 

 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 (ICNAP)

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
Southern Illinois University: main campus at Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA