ABSTRACT
The two primary hermeneutic discursive resources are Gadamer's conversation model of communication from his philosophical hermeneutics and Habermas's discourse model of communication derived from his theory of communicative action. This chapter focuses on to the new model of communication based on Gadamer's and Habermas's works as the dialogue model of communication. For Gadamer, the process of substantive hermeneutic understanding—the process of 'coming-to-an-understanding' and 'coming-to-an-agreement' through genuine conversation—is,' in essence, communication. In fact, it is not accurate to call Gadamer's conversation model of communication a new discourse. Historically, the transmission model came later than the dialogue model of communication. The act of communication is co-created by both interlocutors acting and reacting to each other's utterances, with each utterance creating the conditions for the next. Gadamer's 'common language' required for successful cross-language conversation turns out to be a 'common horizon'. It can be argued that, unfortunately, there will never be a full fusion of horizons between two incompatible P-languages.
