On the Quest for a Coherent and Unitary Theory for the Interdisciplinary Field of Communication Studies

Abstract

The field of communication studies is an extremely various one, this diversity
being generated by each and every science which deals in a specific manner with the object of
communication or language in itself. However, there are great efforts nowadays to build or to
identify a coherent and unitary theory or even a paradigm in order to guide, in a transdisciplinary
way, the sciences of such a vast domain. One of the relevant proposals in this regard, coming
from Ioan S. Cârâc, is that of considering semiotics as a transdisciplinary method or of taking as
a paradigm Eugenio Coseriu’s integral linguistics.