The epistemological challenge of theoretical praxis in the construction of theories of communication

Abstract

This text aims to bring reflections and debates about the theoretical, academic and scientific work in communication sciences. It works three agglutinating aspects, first, the theoretical praxis and its contribution to the investigation; secondly, the epistemological challenge of continuity and rupture to confront the theoretical fragmentation in the field; and, finally, it affirms the necessary construction of theories of communication, as an indispensable practice to break the logocentrism and intellectual neocolonialism, which are preponderant in the current peripheral academic life. The text is constructed from the knowledge generated in theoretical and empirical investigations, carried out by the author in more than three decades, that express a transmethodological perspective of knowledge construction.