Toward a hermeneutic phenomenologyof communication

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1977, Pages 30-41

  Hawes, Leonard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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EID: 84925909658     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463377709369261     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Joseph J. Kockelmans, ed., Phenomenology (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967).
2. For an indication of Merleau-Ponty's interest in language, see Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Signs (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964), pp. 39-113.
3. For a provocative treatment of Heidegger's interest in language and linguisticality, see Martin Heidegger, On the Way to Language (New York: Harper & Row, 1971);
4. Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. A. Hofstadter (New York: Harper & Row, 1971).
5. For an attempted rapprochement between British analytic philosophy's concern with linguistic analysis and Continental philsophy's interest in phenomenology, see Wolfe Mays and S. C. Brown, eds., Linguistic Analysis and Phenomenolgy (Bucknell University Press, 1970).
6. For an introduction to Schutz's treatment of communication and the social, see Alfred Schutz, The Phenomenology of the Social World (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1967);
7. Helmut R. Wagner, ed., Alfred Schutz on Phenomenology and Social Relations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970).
8. For an earlier piece by this author which adumbrates some of the issues addressed in this essay, see Leonard C. Hawes, “A Response to Grossberg and O'Keefe: Building a Human Science of Communication,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 61 (1975), 209-219.
9. For a treatment of phenomenology as criticism, see Richard M. Zaner, The Way of Phenomenology: Criticism as a Philosophical Discipline (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970).
10. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Mac-quarrie and Edward Robinson (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), § 7, p. 51.
11. Richard C. Palmer, Hermeneutics (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1969), p. 128.
12. Palmer, p. 129.
13. Palmer is a good introduction to hermeneutics. Palmer studied with Gadamer for a time, consequently the similarities between the positions of Palmer and Gadamer ought not be surprising. See Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method (New York: The Seabury Press, 1975);
14. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Philosophical Hermeneutics, trans, and ed. David E. Linge (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976).
15. For a more structuralist approach to hermeneutics, see Paul Ricoeur, Freedom and Nature:. The Voluntary and the Involuntary, trans. Erazim V. Kohak (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1966);
16. Paul Ricoeur, The Conflict of Interpretations: Essays in Hermeneutics, ed. Don Ihde (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974).
17. For a more positivist approach to hermeneutics, one perhaps more familiar to people in the communication discipline, see E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Validity in Interpretation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967).
18. Palmer, p. 134.
19. Martin Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. Ralph Manheim (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959), 13.
20. Palmer, p. 139.
21. For an intellectual history of phenomenology, see Herbert Spiegelberg, The Phenomenological Movement: A Historical Introduction (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1969), Vols. I & II.
22. Perhaps the best known sociological works in this vein include Aaron V. Cicourel, Cognitive Sociology: Language and Meaning in Social Interaction (New York: The Free Press, 1974);
23. Jack D. Douglas, ed., Understanding Everyday Life: Toward the Reconstruction of Sociological Knowledge (Chicago: Aldine, 1970):
24. Hans Peter Dreitzel, ed., Recent Sociology No. 2: Patterns of Communicative Behavior (New York: Macmillan, 1970):
25. Harold Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976);
26. Hugh Mehan and Houston Wood, The Reality of Ethnomethodology (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1975);
27. George Psathas, Phenomenological Sociology (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1973);
28. Maurice Roche, Phenomenology, Language and the Social Sciences (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973);
29. Stephan Strasser, Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (Pittsburgh: Duquense University Press, 1974);
30. David Sudnow, ed., Studies in Social Interaction (New York: The Free Press, 1972);
31. Roy Turner, ed., Ethnomethodology (Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1974). The most widely read “purportedly” anthropological works are those of Castaneda;
32. see Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (New York: Pocket Books, 1974);
33. Carlos Castaneda, A Separate Reality (New York: Pocket Books, 1972);
34. Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan (New York: Pocket Books, 1974);
35. Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974).
36. For critiques of Castaneda's work, see Richard DeMille, Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory (Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976);
37. Daniel Noel, ed., Seeing Castaneda: Reactions to the “Don Juan” Writings of Carlos Castaneda (New York; G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1976).
38. Kockelmans, p. 440.
39. For a disclosure of the poetic-rhetorical as the primordial constitutive feature of discourse, see Paul N. Campbell, “Poetic-Rheorical, Philosophical, and Scientific Discourse,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, 6 (1973), 1-29;
40. for a somewhat related discussion of the relation between rhetoric and ontology, see Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, “The Ontological Foundations of Rhetorical Theory,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, 3 (1970), 97-108.
41. Palmer, p. 14.
42. Palmer, p. 19.
43. See Hugh Dalziel Duncan, Communication and Social Order (London: Oxford University Press, 1962);
44. Hugh Dalziel Duncan, Symbols in Society (London: Oxford University Press, 1968).
45. See Maurice Natanson, ed., Alfred Schutz Collected Papers I: The Problem of Social Reality (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973);
46. Helmut R. Wagner, ed., Alfred Schutz on Phenomenology and Social Relations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970);
47. Alfred Schutz, The Phenomenology of the Social World (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1967).
48. For a critical analysis of the rational properties of positivistic science, see Harold Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology (Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice-Hall, 1967), pp. 262-284.
49. Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (New York: Ballantine, 1972).
50. David Sudnovv, “Temporal Parameters of Interpersonal Observation,” in Sudnow, ed., Studies in Social Interaction, pp. 259-279.
51. Donna Jurick is currently working on the phenomenon of “information”
52. how it is conversationlly constituted, what its ontological properties are, how members recognize it, how it is used conversationally and how it is “used up.” See Donna Jurick, “The Communicative Constitution of Information,” unpublished manuscript, Department of Communication, The Ohio State University, 1976.
53. See Leonard C. Hawes, “How Writing is Used in Talk: A Study of Communicative Logic-in-Use,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 62 (1976), 350-360.