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uncertainty and Communication Also by the author LITERARY COMMUNICATION FROM CONSENSUS TO RUPTURE: Practice and Theory in Honecker's GDR FUNCTIONS AND FICTIONS OF COMMUNICATION LANGUAGE - MEANING - SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION: Interdisciplinary Studies (editor with D. McLaughlin) RETHINKING COMMUNICATIVE INTERACTION: New Interdisciplinary Horizons (editor) Uncertainty and Communication New Theoretical Investigations Colin B. Grant University of Surrey Palgrave macmillan * © Colin B. Grant 2007 Softcover reprint ofthe hard cover 1st edition 2007 978-0-230-51762-2 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin's Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-35525-9 ISBN 978-0-230-22293-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230222939 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Grant, Colin B. Uncertainty and communication : new theoretical investigations I Colin B. Grant. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-349-35525-9 (alk. paper) 1. Communication. 2. Uncertainty (Information theory) I. Title. P91.G693 2007 302.2-dc22 2007017070 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 Transferred to Digital Printing 2011. For Beatriz, Anna and Eva Table of Contents List of Figures viii Acknowledgements ix Chapter 1 Why Communication Is Not as Certain as We Might Think 1 Chapter 2 Intersubjectivity, Dialogue and the Limits of Sharedness 33 Chapter 3 The Limited Reach of Universal Pragmatics 55 Chapter 4 The Limited Reach of Communication Systems 81 Chapter 5 Uncertainty and Social Communication Theory 104 Chapter 6 The Communicating Subject 128 Chapter 7 Radical Translation and Interpretation across Ideologies and Cultures 145 Chapter 8 New Communication Uncertainties and Mediapolitics 164 Notes 185 General Bibliography 189 Index 201 vii List of Figures 2.1 Organon model of language functions 39 viii Acknowledgements Part of Chapter 4 was published in Soziale Systeme in 2004. The remaining chapters in this book are published here for the first time. They derive from papers and seminars I have presented between 2000 and 2006 at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and the uni versities of Sheffield, Oxford, Rio de Janeiro, Parana, Vi\osa, Ghent, Amsterdam, Shanghai and Warsaw. I am grateful to John Benjamins for permission to reproduce the diagram of Karl Buhler's organon model of language functions, to Christopher Gauker for permission to quote from his manuscript 'Zero Tolerance for Pragmatics' and to Lucius and Lucius for permis sion to quote from my 2004 article 'Uncertain Communication: Uncertain Systems'. ix
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