The clearest focus of our discipline is human symbolic activity; its scope in practice includes little if anything that is not related to that activity; and its coherence can be achieved by recognition that the study of human symbolic activity is its distinguishing feature. Such recognition would demarcate a domain in which we may profess expertise without straining the credulity of academic administrators or offending the territoriality of those in related disciplines, and it would help to resolve the excessive controversy that presently rages among our various research perspectives
Quarterly Journal of Speech
Volume 72, 1986 - Issue 3
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