ABSTRACT
The goal of this volume is to continually patrol the boundary between more microindividual processes and macrosocial processes. Human communication is at the root of social categories and structures. The experiences humans have in their past contacts with one another become the subjective attitudes and intentions of the future. As people talk, argue, and persuade one another, they realign resources and thereby restructure their relationships so that social groups and processes get renegotiated and reformed. This is the basis for social change and reality. This chapter demonstrates that language cannot be separated from social life, and is logically connected to it. It is critical of constructionist tendencies in communication and suggests a realist science of communication.
