Language, Communication and the Gift Economy: A Semioethic Approach

Abstract Maternal gift-giving sustains life and creates positive human relations. Addressing important issues in the theory of language communication, Genevieve Vaughan associates mothering to free gift economy. A fundamental hypothesis is that maternal gift-giving, mothering/being-mothered forms a non-essentialist, but core process material verbal communication has been neglected by Western view world. The paradigm thematized framework logic, which otherness logic. Restoring such offers new light on language, relations, contributing recovery “properly human” terms economy values, ultimately end affecting social praxis for radical change creating better worlds. second part this text titled “For Sake Other” presents an exchange ideas with form written conversation. This structured around following titles: 1. Otherness Gifting as Basis Communication: 1.1. Semiosis, Language, Gift Economy; 1.2. Speaking “Mother Work Schema”; 1.3. Material gifting, Verbal Nurturing, Imagination; 1.4. New Perspectives Studies Language Communication; 2. For Other, Vaughan.