This first anthology of its kind offers a new way of thinking about communication that moves beyond normative perspectives. the eight essays presented in Communicology are examples of communicology, committed to bracketing the dominant paradigm's commonsense understanding of communication as merely a fact of life. Exhibiting post-modern theory, communicology is an idea whose time has come. The extraordinary depth of philosophical and interdisciplinary theoretical grounding of the communicologists who contributed to Communicology is readily apparent in a brief perusal of the bibliographies of each chapter of this book. Each contributor makes a unique and erudite contribution, illustrating communicology's range of inquiry to be identical with the range of conscious experience and human behavior.
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