"This is a profound and even revolutionary treatise that will challenge all those disciplines centrally or marginally concerned with discourse. The range of knowledge drawn upon to make the book's argument is simply breathtaking. Scholars in communication, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies must read this absolutely new and refreshing philosophy of discourse. Without doubt, this book advances the human sciences."---Isaac E. Catt.<BR><BR>visting scholar, Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University, and fellow, International Communicology Institute<BR><BR>"In this erudite and yet strikingly original contribution to the philosophy of communication, Igor E. Klyukanov theorizes communication as an experience of meaning that unfolds through a series of dialectical transformations. Following the author's journey through five `stagings' of communication ---from instrumental objectivity to blissful unity---we gather nuggets of epigram, etymology, and theoretical insight along the way. Klyukanov addresses the notoriously fragmented field of communication theory as a whole and offers a unifying vision."---Robertt. Craig, University of Colorado at Boulder<BR><BR>"A meditation on the most fundamental issues of communication, Igor E. Klyukanov's book is imbued with a rich spirit of humanity. It is an Odyssean wandering through the thickets of thought with several surprises and treasures along the way. The reader will reemerge wiser than before."---John Durham Peters, University of lowa<BR><BR>"This book provides a systemic way of thinking about communication that is lacking in recent theory. By emphasizing the multidimensional and integrated manifestations of communication, how one `staging' takes precedence over others under certain guises, or overlaps in other guises, Igor E. Klyukanov reveals what is so often taken for granted or otherwise glossed over as essential to meaningful communication."---Andrew R. Smith, Edinboro University<BR><BR>A Communication Universe: Manifestations of Meaning, Stagings of Significance puts forth a new theoretical understanding of communication as a continuous process of meaningful spatiotemporal transformations. Igor E. Klyukanov discusses several perspectives on communication, each of which highlights a certain staging of communication where and when some of its meaningful characteristics are manifest. As a result, communication is presented as a moving, constantly transformative and transformed, experience. Overall, the process of communication is viewed as a universe, meaning "whole," "entire," and "turned into one."