Understanding communication means grasping others’ purposes hermeneutically

Evidence

The objective of doing all this—of looking at the practices that organize communications, the concepts such practices presuppose, and the social rela- tions they bring into existence—is a hermeneutic one: to try to find out what other people are up to, or at least what they think they are up to; to render transparent the concepts and purposes that guide their actions and render the world coherent to them; to extend the human conversation, to incorporate into our world other actors tending other dramas by comprehending what they are saying. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 383

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the hermeneutic goal of cultural studies as extending the human conversation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 383
• XREF: connects to: Mass media resists the theoretical models that work for interpersonal communication — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 334; The real divide in communication studies is objectivist versus expressivist worldview — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 348; The transmission view defines communication as sending messages across distance for control — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 150 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Collective intellectual work requires respectful dialogic engagement to manage conflicting perspectives #expands (0.55)
• Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange #expands (0.55)
• Positive science supplied a model of uncoerced communication supporting democracy #corroborates (0.50) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 425