Mickunas, Algis. (2007). Maurice Merleau-Ponty:
Communicative Practice. In P. Arneson (Ed). Perspectives on Philosophy of
Communication. West Layfayette: Purdue University Press.
Prevailing Claim
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Communication is founded in historical situatedness
of Human Life.
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Farmed in a particular form of language interpretation
and understanding.
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Impossible to extricate experienced phenomena
from their historical context and linguistic interpretation to make a universal
claim.
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The context includes common usage, means, norms
customs validations.
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The individuals awareness is a direct example of
the context
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A sphere of commonality.
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Considered to be as objective as any empirical
account or historical effective consciousness.
Implications of a singular culture.
Ponty’s theories transcend transmission theory.
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Meaning is generally derived from subject.
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For Ponty
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Subject to object and object to subject are
meaningless.
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Ponty takes bodily primacy that is always
oriented toward the phenomenological field.
o
The Phenomenal field consists of various levels.
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Diacritical or differentiated character
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Color and brightness are determined relative to
each other.
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Meaning is defined by differentiation between
phenomena.
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The lived experienced body signifies the very
structure of the practical world, spatially and with other relationships.
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The body functions as center, and as here.
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It orients body and language conceptually
forward.
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Body works with all phenomena
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Body significations are inescapable in any
discourse as the very fabric of communication.
The practical world opens and oriented structure e in
correlations to other placed and regions of the world.
The oriented space is intertwined with a temporal field that
is equally dynamic and flexable.
The lived body, as a situation, allows for tightening and
loosening of the situation and can establish a flexible space and time for
itself and the phenomena that is involved.
One’s engagement is an interaction and being interrogated by
the intersecting of the phenomena.
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