title: Communication (action with communicative content).
abstract: The term Communication generally designate the transmission of a message of concepts, feelings or needs from a speaker to a receiver by means of verbal or no verbal language. The pragmatic approach to human communication has put in evidence a further implication of this concept: every behaviour therefore has a value even when it is not intentional. Recently, a more dynamic concept of communication has been elaborated where communication means communicative action. This interpretation is the starting point for the theory of the "communicative acting" and subsequently of the so called discourse ethic elaborated by J. Habermas.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Philosophy of Scientific and Technological Activity, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy. m.russo@unicampus.it
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Russo
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D004014:Dictionaries as Topic; D006801:Humans