ISBN:
9780415820370
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (321 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version A Century of Communication Studies : The Unfinished Conversation
DDC:
302.207/073
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume chronicles the development of communication studies as a discipline, providing a history of the field and identifying opportunities for future growth. Editors Pat J. Gehrke and William M. Keith have assembled an exceptional list of communication scholars who, in the thirteen chapters contained in this book, cover the breadth and depth of the field. Organized around themes and concepts that have enduring historical significance and wide appeal across numerous subfields of communication, A Century of Communication Studies bridges research and pedagogy, addressing themes that connect
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Brief History of the National Communication Association; 1. Discovering Communication: Five Turns toward Discipline and Association; 2. Paying Lip Service to "Speech" in Disciplinary Naming, 1914-1954; 3. The Silencing of Speech in the Late Twentieth Century; 4. Epistemological Movements in Communication: An Analysis of Empirical and Rhetorical/Critical Scholarship; 5. The Scholarly Communication of Communication Scholars: Centennial Trends in a Surging Conversation
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Sexing Communication: Hearing, Feeling, Remembering Sex/Gender and Sexuality in the NCA7. Liberalism and its Discontents: Black Rhetoric and the Cultural Transformation of Rhetorical Studies in the Twentieth Century; 8. A Critical History of the "Live" Body in Performance within the National Communication Association; 9. Listening Research in the Communication Discipline; 10. Conceptualizing Meaning in Communication Studies; 11. Communicative Meeting: From Pangloss to Tenacious Hope; Afterword: What Next?; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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