Communication research in Russia: distinctive features and approaches
... characterised by an expansive understanding of communication, in which social culture and personality are seen as complementary communicative entities by their very nature. Research focuses on several specific topics: meaning-making and understanding; apophatic semiosis and the role of subjectness; interdisciplinarity and convergence of a wide range of methods and approaches, both in the sciences and the humanities. Contemporary Russian communication studies are characterised by widely varying theoretical approaches ...