Hi Lubomir and Francois,
There is a long debate about the nature of communication in communication theory and the philosophy of language which touches on the issue of communication as on the one hand, as an instrumental activity—a means of achieving specific outcomes in the world, and communication on the other hand as foundational—constructing the social fabric of the world. Many of us in the field have moved to the latter view. That this is happening in design is to be expected and welcomed.
In discourse about this we have moved from talking about language to languaging—from language as a thing we use to “languaging" as an activity, something we do. So, for example, instead of talking about metaphors, we should be talking about metaphorising. You can see the parallel changes in some design areas such as moving from interface design to user experience design, and so on. This move opens up an extraordinary rich vein for new work.
But in the English language we have a confounding problem to do with the way we describe communication as having it’s own properties like any other ’thing' in the world. This leads to some strange and ultimately pointless debates, many of which have been rerun in this list.
Perhaps one day…
Warm greetings from wintery Melbourne
David
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