ABSTRACT
The aim of this book is to provide a distinctive, comprehensive, and suggestive approach to communication by presenting a structured selection of the scholarly work produced by Klaus Krippendorff. It is a distinctive approach because it is the product of a particular scholar, but also because it feeds from an intellectual tradition situated far from the mainstream of communication scholarship. It is comprehensive because it touches upon all the fundamental issues surrounding communication, such as language, meaning, otherness, and information.And it is suggestive because it offers opportunities for engaging in fruitful dialogue with other approaches to communication and for revising some of the basic tenets of the field at a time when this revision seems necessary, and even urgent.
