ICA session of interest

[Christian Nelson]

Hi ICAers:

For those of you attending the very upcoming ICA convention in DC this
coming weekend, I would like to alert you to a session I will be
chairing, which is scheduled for Sunday at 2:30 (and sponsored by the
Philosophy of Communication Division). PLEASE NOTE that this session is
scheduled at the SAME TIME as the Languager and Social Interaction
Division business meeting. I an NOT recommending that you skip that
meeting for the one I'm chairing; however, that meeting MIGHT be moved
due to this conflict, so please look at the program alterations sheet
they hand you at registration to see if this conflict has been averted.

Anyway, as it states in the online program
<http://www.icahdq.org/conference/2001/search.ihtml>: "This panel will
focus on Briankle Chang's (1996) book _Deconstructing Communication_ and
Talbot Taylor's (1992) _Mutual Misunderstanding_ and the work of both
authors since. These authors focus on intertwined concepts central to
most communication researchers' understandings of communication -
intersubjectivity and understanding. The authors present compelling
reasons for questioning the assumption of intersubjective understanding
discernable in most communication scholarship, but also question
theorizing about understanding, at least as currently conceived and
performed."

I think this panel will be of interest to LSI folks on these lists not
only because Talbot's work argues that we understand "understanding" but
studying the use of the term in social interaction, but also because
Briankle's critique of the common theoretical position on understanding
is a critique that might be seen to apply to the position advocated by
many social interaction researchers.

Cheers,
Christian Nelson