Breaking Boundaries| Toward a New Vocabulary for Political Communication Research: A Response to Michael X. Delli Carpini

Abstract

The current scientific vocabulary is one vocabulary among others . . . there is no need to give it primacy, nor to reduce other vocabularies to it. ~Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 142 Interesting philosophy is rarely an examination of the pros and cons of a thesis. Usually it is . . . a contest between an entrenched vocabulary which has become a nuisance and a half-formed new vocabulary which vaguely promises great things. ~Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, p. 9