This article aims to speculate on how the nature of communication is changing with respect to the production, manipulation and distribution of signs on various digital platforms by making a detour to the reviewing of the traditional paradigm of communication on the basis of Jacque Derrida’s critique of Austin’s speech act theory. The Derridian notion of iterability can be a clue to inquire into the contextual limit on the singularity of an event which Austin promulgates as the essence of linguistic performativity. As Derrida argues, communication must be iterable, that is, both repeatable and alterable, since it always tends toward the possibility of moving from one context to another. The interface in digital communication can be understood in terms of the Derridian sense of iterability in communication, in the sense that the interface functions basically as a transmutable platform where a digital sign performs its reciprocal acts of sending and receiving. And the iterable mechanism of digital communication can provide a useful clue to pinpoint the significance of the Digital Humanities in our time, since the most fundamental task of this new hybridized discipline would be how to montage various sets of database for the maximized qualitative use in humanities research and education. Thereby, digital communication tends toward an epistemological mapping by intersecting various layers of virtual time and space.
목차
1. Digital Culture and Communication 2. Traditional Concepts of Communication: Condillac and Austin 3. Iterability: Derrida’s Critique of Singularity in Communication 4. Communication and Digital Semiosis 5. Communication in the Context of the Digital Humanities Works Cited Abstract
국제언어인문학회 [INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMANISTIC STUDIES IN LANGUAGE]
설립연도
2000
분야
인문학>언어학
소개
국제언어인문학회는 '언어를 통한 인문학 연구'의 필요성에 동감하는 여러 전공분야 학자들의 뜻을 담고 있습니다. 언어에 초점을 맞추는 것은, 다양한 전공분야의 참여에서 생겨날 수 있는 '이질적 집합'의 상황을 극복하기 위한 장치입니다. 현재로서는 작은 불씨를 지핀 것에 불과합니다. 그러나 이렇게 일구어진 불꽃이 새로운 학풍의 바람결에 커다란 섬광으로 빛나게 될 날이 올 것을 우리는 확신합니다. 우리의 학회와 학술지는 인문학 불변의 가치와 시대적 사명을 인식하는 국내외의 학자들을 향해 활짝 개방되어 있습니다. 특정 전공의 범위를 넘어서서 철학, 문학, 언어학, 종교, 역사, 문화, 예술 등의 시각에서 언어의 본질을 토론할 기회가 될 것입니다.