Notes for an Ontology of Communication II: On the "Materialities of Communication"

Abstract

This paper aims to encourage an “epistemological turn” in the theoretical reflections on the theories of communication. It addresses issues and perspectives that, according to the readers and to communication specialists, are li le considered or taken into account in the field of theoretical production in Spanish and Portuguese. e long years of empirical research and reflection about the theories of communication have rarely expanded the field of thought towards theoretical perspectives including an ontological foundation about the complexities and multidimensionality of communication processes. e school of materialities of communication provides a very important perspective about the training of Communication students and about the reflections for the construction of theory on the field. e article presents a three-dimensional approach to reference processes in communication.