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Peter Jones
Sheffield Hallam University
Peter E Jones is Emeritus Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University where he worked from 1989 until 2024. His research efforts have been divided between different but ulitmately interconnected areas of interest in linguistics and communication theory, Marxist theory and cultural-historical psychology. Recent publications where these interconnections are addressed are:
Jones, P E (2018) ‘Karl Marx and the language sciences – critical encounters: introduction to the special issue’, Language Sciences 70, 1-15.
Jones, P E (2020) ‘Psychology and psychologies “from the language end”: critical reflections’. In M Fleer, F González Rey, P E Jones (eds), Cultural-Historical and Critical Psychology: Common ground, divergences and future pathways. Springer: 113-132.
Jones, P E (2022) ‘Integrationism in context: the integrationist tradition in the contemporary landscape of linguistic research – towards a “critical communication studies”, in Integrationism and Language Ideologies, Forum Linguistico 7178-7189.
Talk Information:
Marx and communication: an integrationist perspective
February 21, 2025 | 9:00 AM
In this presentation, I intend to ask questions about Marx’s views of language and communication, focussing particularly on the significance of his notion of Verkehr, in the context of his overall views on sociality and social transformation. More particularly, I aim to examine Marx’s views in relation to the contemporary integrationist approach to communication based in the work of the late Roy Harris. I hope to show that integrationism offers important insights on communication which are compatible with, and may indeed enhance, a Marxian view of social organisation and transformation as well as throwing new light on communicational and linguistic principles developed in the works of V N Voloshinov and L S Vygotsky.