Uncertainty and Communication

COLIN B. GRANT is Professor of Communication Studies and Head of School, Department of Culture and Communication at the University of Surrey, UK. He is Chair, Philosophy of Communication Section, European Communication Research and Education Association. His publications include Literary Communication From Consensus to Rupture, Functions and Fictions of Communication (co-editor with D. McLaughlin), Language-Meaning-Social Construction, Rethinking Communicative Interaction (editor).

Acknowledgements Why Communication is Not as Certain as We Might Think Intersubjectivity, Dialogue and the Limits of Sharedness The Limited Reach of Universal Pragmatics The Limited Reach of Communication Systems Uncertainty and Social Communication Theory The Communicating Subject Radical Translation and Interpretation Across Ideologies and Cultures New Communication Uncertainties and Mediapolitics Notes Bibliography Index