CMN3109- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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"communication is a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed. " (p. 43) Reality is not given, not humanly existent, independent of language and toward which language stands as a pale refraction. Rather, reality is brought into existence, is produced, by communication by, in short, the construction, apprehension, and utilization of symbolic forms. (p. 44) [w]e must likewise maintain what we have produced, for there are always new generations coming along for whom our productions are incipiently problematic and for whom reality must be regenerated and made authoritative. (p. 46) Reality must be repaired for it consistently breaks down: people get lost physically and spiritually, experiments fail, evidence counter to the representation is produced, mental derangement sets in (p. 46) Finally, we must, often with fear and regret, toss away our authoritative representations of reality and begin to build the world anew. (p. 46) In the semiotic tradition, communication is typically theorized as intersubjective mediation by signs.
