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The Discipline of Communicology
Communicology is the science of human communication. One of the Human Science disciplines, it uses the logic based research methods of semiotics and phenomenology to explicate human consciousness and behavioral embodiment as discourse within global culture. Cognate subdiscipline applications include: (1) Art Communicology, (2) Clinical Communicology, (3) Media Communicology, and (4) Philosophy of Communicology.
(Continued in Definition: Communicology)
Communicology is the study of human discourse in all of its semiotic and phenomenological manifestations of embodied consciousness and practice in the world of other people and their environment. As a young discipline in Human Science research, Communicology is the critical study of discourse and practice, especially the expressive body as mediated by the perception of cultural signs and codes. Communicology uses the logic based research method of semiotic phenomenology in which the expressive body discloses cultural codes, and cultural codes shape the perceptive body—an ongoing, dialectical, complex helix of twists and turns constituting the reflectivity, reversibility, and reflexivity of consciousness and experience.
(Continued in Précis: Communicology)
Featured International Research Conferences
ALL UPDATED LISTINGS 
ANNOUNCEMENTS, Conferences Calls, Calls for Papers
Just Concluded:
International Conference: METAMIND—Research Arts Project
“Metamorphoses of the Absolute”
7 - 10 October 2010
Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga, Latvia
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE I.C.I.
Organizer: Daina Teters, Academy Vice-Rector, Fellow of I.C. I.
Upcoming 2011:
International Conference: Management Communicology
"People and the Value of an Organization: Social, Human, and Intellectual Capital"
16 - 17 June 2011
Sociology and Psychology of Management Department
Czestochowa University of Technology
Czestochowa, Poland
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE I.C.I.
Organizer: Leszek Cichoblazinski, Scholar of I.C.I.
Upcoming 2011: Details Now on Announcements Page
Fifth ICI Summer Conference:
Research Symposium and Professional Development Seminar
JELENIA GORA, SILESIA, POLAND 15 - 22 JULY 2011
Hosted by the Department of Linguistic Semiotics and Communicology,
Philological School of Higher Education, Wrocław, Poland.
Principal Organizer: Zdzisław Wąsik, School Rector, Fellow of I.C.I. and Bureau Member
Upcoming 2012: The Nanjing 11th World Congress of Semiotics
"Global Semiotics: Bridging Different Civilizations"
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SEMIOTIC STUDIES
5 - 9 October 2012
Nanjing Normal University
Nanjing, P. R. China
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS on the "Announcement" page
In Development:
"Communicology and Cognitive Science in East-West Cultures"
ICI Summer Conference: Symposium and Professional Development Seminar
Beijing, People's Republic of China
ICI Administration
Institute Director
Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Communicology (Emeritus)
Southern Illinois University, USA
I.C.I. Executive Office, Washington, DC
8117 Glenhurst Drive, Suite One
Fairfax Station, VA 22039-3145
USA
Voice: +1 (571) 439-6290
Fax: +1 (703) 495-9792
rlanigan@mac.com
Director of Integrated Media
Thomas D. Craig, D.Phil., Ph.D.
Occasional Instructor
Centre for Applied Disability Studies
Brock University
St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1
CANADA
aporia@gmail.com
ICI Bureau of Regional — Continental Coordinators
AFRICA ♦
• Jean-Claude Mbarga (Cameroon)
• Keyan Tomaselli (South Africa)
AMERICA (NORTH) ♦
• Paul Bouissac (Canada)
• Maureen Connolly (Canada)
• Thomas D. Craig (Canada)
AMERICA (SOUTH) ♦
• Fernando Andacht (Uruguay)
• José Enrique Finol (Venezuela)
• William B. Gomes (Brazil)
• Lucia Santaella (Brazil)
ASIA ♦
• Shushan Cai (P.R. China)
• Ersu Ding (P.R. China)
• Han-liang Chang (Taiwan)
• Du-Won Lee (South Korea)
AUSTRALIA ♦
• Horst Ruthrof (Australia)
EUROPE ♦
• Jeff Bernard (Austria) [✝]
• Gloria Withalm (Austria)
• Lennart Nørreklit (Denmark)
• Winfried Nöth (Germany)
• Roland Posner (Germany)
• Zdzisław Wąsik (Poland)
• Traian D. Stanciulescu (Romania)
MIDDLE EAST ♦
• Mehdi Mohsenian-Rad (Iran)
I C I ACCREDITATIONS and CERTIFIED AFFILIATIONS
MEMBER, Union of International Associations
http://www.uia.be
Representative:
Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D.
I A S S
International Association for Semiotic Studies
Association Internationale de Sémiotique
Asociación Internacional de Semiótica
Internationale Vereinigung für Semiotik
MEMBER, International Association for Semiotic Studies
http://www.iass-ais.org
Representatives:
Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D., Executive Committee, USA Representative; Past Vice President
Maureen Connolly, Ph.D., Executive Committee, ICI Representative
Note: Many other ICI Fellows sit on the IASS Executive Committee as representatives of their own country.
MEMBER, Organization of Phenomenological Organizations
http://www.o-p-o.net
Representatives:
Thomas D. Craig, D. Phil., Ph.D.
Mauren Connolly, Ph.D.
Note: Many other ICI Fellows from disciplinary research associations and societies are OPO Representatives.
MEMBER, Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists
www.icnap.org
Representative:
Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D., ICNAP Founding Member
ICI Founded at SIU in 2000
Founding Director:
Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Communicology
