Greetings, @zest. Great posts. I'm just catching on with the series. I'm interested in history and literature (especially American and children's lit) and how the two disciplines overlap.
I think that these dissertations on communication serve as springboard for interdisciplinary studies. I also think that literature encapsulates the different forms of communication and as teachers of literature we find ourselves guiding our students to read between the lines to fully understand both characters and texts.
With some luck, students can further apply/extrapolate those principles to their own daily interactions and "read" people better; by extension communicate better.
If the literature studied is historical, it is a bonus.
If communication is germane for the "development and transmission of culture", the study of literature as the highest point of development of our languages and therefore of our cultures as communicators should gain greater importance.
I am very excited at having found you in this community which is precisely communicating so much and in so many different media that is overwhelming.
I'll be following your posts.