Communication category: 5490 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
What is intercultural communication? How does perspective shape a person’s definition of the key tenets of the term and the field? These are the core questions explored by this accessible global introduction to intercultural communication. Each chapter explores the topic from a different geographic,...
by James C Mccroskey
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
An Introduction to Rhetorical Communication offers a true integration of rhetorical theory and social science approaches to public communication.
This highly successful text guides students through message planning and presentation in an easy step-by-step process. An Introduction to Rhetorical...
Inside Relationships
A Creative Casebook in Relational Communication
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book of original case studies allows students in interpersonal and relational communication classes to engage with creative stories about lives and relationships, helping them understand how communication processes work. Written in literary format—essays, short stories, scripts, photographs,...
by Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
THE MODERN CONCEPT OF COMMUNICATION explores the meaning of this term in modernity. From the Philosophy of Language, developed by Karl-Otto Apel, progress towards a conception beyond a technical definition, and then, we define the communication to consider human factors, which they were left out of the...
Case Studies in Sport Communication
You Make the Call
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Case Studies in Sport Communication: You Make the Call goes beyond the box scores by offering readers the opportunity to evaluate popular and diverse issues in sport—including management, crisis, health, ethics, gender, race, and social media. Each chapter incorporates theory and communication principles...
Teaching and Training for Global Engineering
Perspectives on Culture and Professional Communication Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Provides a foundation for understanding a range of linguistic, cultural, and technological factors to effectively practice international communication in a variety of professional communication arenas
An in-depth analysis of how cultural factors influence translation, document design, and visual...
Critical Environmental Communication
How Does Critique Respond to the Urgency of Climate Change?
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
How do contemporary critical thinkers find a way to work between the doubt that grounds their thinking and the knowing needed to ground emancipatory political struggles? In this overview of four contemporary thinkers’—Timothy Morton, Peter Sloterdijk, Slavoj Žižek, and Bruno Latour—approaches...
Optimizing Language Learners Nonverbal Behavior
From Tenet to Technique
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
This book highlights the pivotal role that nonverbal behavior plays in target language communication, affect and cognition. It integrates research tenets and video demonstrations of nonverbal behavior with structured activities that will guide teachers and learners of any language to capitalize on...
Race(ing) Intercultural Communication
Racial Logics in a Colorblind Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Race(ing) Intercultural Communication signals a crucial intervention in the field, as well as in wider society, where social and political events are calling for new ways of making sense of race in the 21st century. Contributors to this book work at multiple intersections, theoretically and methodologically,...
The Situated Organization
Case Studies in the Pragmatics of Communication Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The Situated Organization explores recent research in organizational communication, emphasizing the organization as constructed in and emerging out of communication practices. Working from the tradition of the Montreal School in its approach, it focuses not only on how an organization’s members...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book examines the notions of ethics and equity in relation to language and communication in intercultural relations. Although these notions are often discussed, they are not always addressed with regard to specifi c subjects. Much intercultural discourse and dialogue in recent times has been...
Non-Western Perspectives on Human Communication
Implications for Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2002
What it means to be a self - and a self communicating and being in a particular culture - are key issues interwoven throughout Min-Sun Kim's impressive text, Non-Western Perspectives on Human Communication. Going beyond cultural descriptions or instructions on adapting to specific cultures, the author...
Communication and Democracy
Exploring the intellectual Frontiers in Agenda-setting theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Exciting intellectual frontiers are open for exploration as agenda-setting theory moves beyond its 25th anniversary. This volume offers an intriguing set of maps to guide this exploration over the near future. It is intended for those who are already reasonably well read in the research literature...
Digital Transformations in Turkey
Current Perspectives in Communication Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Digital Transformations in Turkey analyzes the genesis, dynamics, and operations of different communication contexts in relation to digital transformations in Turkey. The contributors tackle such topics as the impact of social networking channels like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter and the changing...