Winner of the Everett Lee Hunt Award 2013. Winner of the National Communication Association
(NCA) Philosophy of Communication Division's award for Best Book. An Overture to Philosophy of
Communication: The Carrier of Meaning explores a world beyond information accumulation
stressing meaningful engagement with existence. Meaning is composed between and among persons
ideas and activities of communicative engagement. Meaning is central to the study and practice
of philosophy of communication providing story-laden guidance. The book examines philosophical
differences between Boss and Zorba following the development of their friendship in Zorba the
Greek. Their story helps to exemplify the meaningful coordinates of philosophy of communication
established in each chapter. The authors claim meaning as the pivotal conceptual terrain for
philosophy of communication. This book offers a rationale for the pragmatic necessity of
philosophy of communication in understanding the «how» and the «why» of orchestrating meaning
from information and discourse throughout our communicative lives.
