The theory of communicative language: Political economy for multiple civilizations

Abstract

The main stream economic paradigm generates some cultural conflicts, un-sustainability of Earth resources and conceptual distortions. This paper introduces the theory of communicative language (TCL) to address negative effects of economic value making on political and social relations. It adopts a conceptual perspective and elaborates economic, political and social relations with regard to means of communication. Having put the theoretical foundation, the paper builds alternative futures in which communicative language identifies co-existence of multiple civilizations stemming from sustainability, where as extensive use of dominative language in economic and political actions, leads to social decay, results in un-sustainability, and generates conflicts between cultures and civilizations. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. © 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.