「コミュニケーション重視」の大学英語教育に対する社会からの期待が高まる一方で、既存の理論フレームワークは言語至上主義的なモデルに傾倒している等、必ずしも十分な「コミュニケーション観」に基づいた評価ができていない。このような問題意識を背景に、これからの英語教育が立脚すべき「次世代コミュニケーション論」を素描し、示唆と試論を提示した。この論考は「言語の限界」を複数の観点から理論的に明らかにし、メタ・コミュニケーションレベルでの分析が、広義のコミュニケーション論の概念化には不可欠なことを論じている。  This paper proposes a new theory of communication incorporating next generation media and its application to English education at the university level. Recently in Japan, need for so-called communicative English education is growing stronger, in correspondence with which there have been some interesting theories of communication. However, such theories are far from being functionally adequate, because they are confined to language alone without realizing the limitation of the role of language in communication. This paper attempts to correct these existing theoretical frameworks for a more functional model of communication. There are several important issues highlighted in this paper including "meta-communicative dimension", which is considered essential for the conceptualization of communication thus defined.

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