Abstract
Recently, an increasing number of people, including college students, company recruiters and career counselors are preferably using the term "communication skills." While some scholars of communication studies are pursuing the structure and function of communication, others are discussing social events from a viewpoint of 'knowledge/power' as in Michel Foucault's Panopticism, regarding communication as topos for critical thought and practice. This paper deals with the critical approach, in which we attempt to make reflective thinking to relativize rigid thought patterns that could force us to think or act in a particular or restricted way. We discuss the potentiality of rhetoric research and education that would provide a backbone to communication studies and communication education.
