This paper asks in turn: (1) What is phenomenology? (2) What is a phenomenology of communication? and (3) What is a phenomenology of human communication? The progressive application of the three questions represents an explicit use of the phenomenological method, involving description, reduction and interpretation. The phenomenological reduction of the conscious experience of human communication yields the conclusion that rhetorical ethics (speech acts) are the relation between persons and their lived worlds. The phenomenological interpretation leads to the conclusion that human communication is a sign of conscious experience and, conversely, that the union of consciousness and experience constitutes human communication. In other words, our rhetoric generates our ethics; our conscious experience communicates the person we are and the world we live. (AA)