Welcome to the metamodel: A reply to Pablé. Issue 1 (1st June 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Craig, Robert T.
• Is Part Of: Empedocles. Volume 10:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 101
• Page End: 108
• Publication Date: 2019-06-01
• Subjects: Communication -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; 302.201
• DOI: 10.1386/ejpc.10.1.101_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-1952

Abstract

In 2017, Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication published an article by Adrian Pablé, an integrationist linguist, which considers the contribution that Roy Harris' theory of sign can make to communication theory in terms of the constitutive metamodel of communication theory. This brief response to that contribution concludes that integrationism is a useful but limited perspective and that its claim to exclusive validity should be rejected by communication theorists.