ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the "communication-information relationship" and its place in contemporary metatheoretical discourse in three ways. The first is the concept of the communication-information relationship from the perspective of the participants whose speech and texts comprise the metatheoretical discourse. A second perspective is to view the communication-information relationship as a product of particular practices and institutions and to address the nature of the practices through which the relationship can come to be expressed as a valid domain of scholarly inquiry. The third perspective is the Foucauldian, following the "archaeological" studies of Michel Foucault. The chapter outlines a potential Foucauldian study. The T. S. Kuhnian discourse of the paradigm is an integral part of the metatheoretical discourse of communication and information and is actively deployed by them in the production and legitimation of knowledge claims. As one particular way of speaking about science, Kuhn's account has found a central place in the metatheoretical discourses of the social sciences.
