Abstract
One of main currents in recent social theory is that consideration on communication process, a field in which actors interact with one another, have become a prime subject with “meanings” posited as a fundamental concept. In this paper I make the point that a precursor of such “communicologic turn” is Ferdinand de Saussure. According to him, meanings of language must be understood as “relation” between one item and another. And such a relationalistic approach to them is verified in terms of social action theory ; meanings of action must be comprehended as relation between preceding action and following one.
I propose a general schema of communication process on the basis of the above and try to show as follows : given the selection of actions by actors and their meanings in the process of interaction chains, each meaning of actions is indeterminable and communication necessarily faces its ineffectibility ; thus the determination of meaning is just temporary. In this sense the situation where communication succeed, I conclude, is no more than provisional or pseudo.
