Ideal speech community: Habermas's ideal speech community is a hypothetical community in which all members have equal opportunity to participate in rational discourse without coercion or manipulation. See also Communication theory, Communication, J. Habermas, Deliberative Democracy, Discourse, Discourse theory._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. |