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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1976 - 6/30/1977

Funding Totals

$14,500.00 (approved)
$14,500.00 (awarded)

Philosophical Foundations and Implications of a Universal Pragmatics of Human Communication

FAIN: FB-12978-76

Thomas W. Bridges
Montclair State University (Montclair, NJ 07043-1600)

To study the literature in philosophy and other fields which are relevant to the conception and development of a universal pragmatics of human communication. Included in the study will be writings in sociolinguistics by Hymes and Garfinkel, communicative psychotherapeutic theory by Sullivan and Bateson, the most recent works by Habermas and Apel, and naturalistic theories of communication developed by John Dewey and George Mead.