ABSTRACT
Experienced and confident students of Communication Studies assert that it is misleading to distinguish between theory and practice. Nevertheless many commentators find such a distinction useful. One way of characterising the discipline is that it consists of practices which are informed by theory. As Communication Studies students we subject the world of communication to various kinds of analysis prompted, guided and shaped by those theoretical pioneers who have gone before. Given the multi-disciplinary character of the subject this results in our drawing on the broadest range of useful theoretical work: philosophical, linguistic, anthropological, psychological, sociological, aesthetic. Because the discipline draws on work originally written in languages other than English we are thus at the mercy of translators.
