Abstract
In the vein of Peirce’s communication philosophy, language communication inevitably suffers from its vagueness and uncertainty. Paradoxically, what enables this vagueness and uncertainty to be solved, and the condition of communication to be sufficiently met, is not language itself, but “collateral experience” communicators may weave, exchange, and share in communication. Collateral experience is forceful in penetrating the “universe,” in which communicators may be engaged, and in helping them in the wake of communication to acquire knowledge current in the community. Consequently, generality for a communicative act becomes established as the final goal of communication. Generality overcomes the vagueness and uncertainty arising from local and partial contingencies of context, and transcends beyond it. Due to communication, people become capable of finally resolving puzzlement, and of establishing their beliefs, with a guidance for their action.
Acknowledgements
This research was funded with the grants of “The Push-Pull factors and their Impact on the Promotion of Chinese Language in the Social Domains of the Countries Involved in the Belt and Road Initiative” (15JJD740005), and “Theory Reconstruction and Policy Optimization of Chinese International Communication” (16JJD740005), which are major projects of the University Key Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, China.
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