Examining Conceptualizations of Communication

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*We would like to thank Helen Fraser, Andrea Schalley and Dorothea Cogill-Koez for organizing the HSCNet Workshop on Conceptualising Communication from which this volume arises.

Notes

*We would like to thank Helen Fraser, Andrea Schalley and Dorothea Cogill-Koez for organizing the HSCNet Workshop on Conceptualising Communication from which this volume arises.

¹This is summarized by Saussure's (1916) statement ‘la linguistique a pour unique et véritable objet la langue envisagée en elle-même et pour elle-même’ [‘linguistics has as its sole, true object language viewed in itself and for its own sake’], an idea which was taken from Bopp (1816).

²It is worth noting that such conceptualizations do not necessarily entail an understanding of communication as being somehow inherently cooperative or as always meaning ‘agreement’. Communication often involves a degree of uncertainty (Grant 2007), and can involve diverging as well as converging understandings of what is being communicated (Arundale 1999; Haugh 2008a,b).