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French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. | | French term or phrase: le tout-communicationnel | The term occurs in the following context:
Projet d’article sur le «tout-communicationnel» et le tout-fictionnel» dans la théorie contemporaine
It seems to be a catch phrase to do with theories of postmodernism which has passed me by. Can someone help me? |
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| | the all-communicating | Explanation:
My guess is that this is originally a French term, because it seems to plays on different senses of "tout" (whole/all/everything) that don't work in English, and hover between being an adjective and a noun (the all-communicating and the communicating all).
The "all-communicating" seems to get used in the same kind of contexts as the "tout-communicationnel", ie in talking about the contemporary era of communications, or the contemporary theory of that era, eg.
Research - News Centre: The 'all-communicating' world
European Commission - Research. This special edition of magazine RTD Info is dedicated to the thematic priorities of the Sixth Framework programme ...
ec.europa.eu/research/news-centre/en/inf/02-11-inf01.html
Under comprehension
In the all-communicating society large segments. of. economic. behaviour are dictated by news-feeding far more than by economic fundamentals. ...
www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1989....
The "tout-fictionnel" also seems to be about a kind of "pan-fictionalism" rather than a "fictional whole", eg. "Mais on jugera que la fermeté des arguments proposés par D. Cohn contre le « tout fictionnel » ou le « tout subjectif » des déconstructions « post-modernes » du récit." (Le partage des eaux, www.fabula.org/revue/cr/6.php)
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Melissa McMahon
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