Communication category: 5490 books
Wedding as Text
Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
A wedding serves as the beginning marker of a marriage; if a couple is to manage cultural differences throughout their relationship, they must first pass the hurdle of designing a wedding ceremony that accommodates those differences. In this volume, author Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz documents the weddings...
The Multilingual Internet
Language, Culture, and Communication Online
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
Two thirds of global internet users are non-English speakers. Despite this, most scholarly literature on the internet and computer-mediated-communication (CMC) focuses exclusively on English. This is the first book devoted to analyzing internet related CMC in languages other than English. The volume...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This collection of essays represents a follow-up to the editors' 1994 publication, The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication. In the preface to that collection of essays, they argued that "To fully understand how people function effectively requires us to consider how individuals cope with...
Partnership for Health
Building Relationships Between Women and Health Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In the 1960s, feminists voiced their outrage about the health care system in the United States which routinely discriminated against women and, in so doing, literally jeopardized their health and well-being. Over a decade later, women's health advocates still stressed the need for reform of this male-dominated...
Confrontation Talk
Arguments, Asymmetries, and Power on Talk Radio
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Using conversation analysis to explore the nature of argument, asymmetry, and power on talk radio, this book focuses on the interplay between the structures of talk in interaction and the structures of participation on talk radio. In the process, it demonstrates how conversation analysis may be used...
by Andrew Rixon PhD, Sascha Rixon PhD PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
It's not just health professionals in Emergency Departments that need to communicate effectively under difficult conditions involving time pressure, high stress, and conflict. Executives, senior managers and leaders have this need too. Through simple, practical and effective tools validated by Emergency...
Underserved Communities and Digital Discourse
Getting Voices Heard
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Underserved Communities and Digital Discourse: Getting Voices Heard presents a series of case studies which evaluate the elevation and suppression of voices within marginalized and minority communities. It examines the use of digital media and its role in the construction of reality—specifically...
Communication for Behavior Change
Volume II: Writing and Producing for Television and Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The book demonstrates how to create TV and FILM DRAMAS that encourage people to make positive behavioral changes to improve their lives.
The book teaches people how to:
• Create SERIAL OR STAND-ALONE DRAMAS that will appeal to a select audience
• Create characters that represent...
by Lyombe S. Eko
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
This volume explores the sameness and difference between the United States and France in the matters of freedom of expression on the Internet. The United States and France are liberal democracies that are part of the Western family of nations. However, despite their many similarities, they have a...
by D. Ping, Ping Du
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This book proposes a new theoretical and methodological approach to the investigation and explanation of intercultural differences in conflict management strategies and relational (politeness) strategies in workplace settings, taking the Chinese workplace as its focus.
Speaking Our Minds
Conversations With the People Behind Landmark First Amendment Cases
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
Tinker. R.A.V. Ollman. Hustler-Falwell. Reno-ACLU. Nebraska Press Association. These names are synonymous with contemporary First Amendment litigation. To explore these landmark cases more deeply, author Joseph Russomanno interviewed the people at the core of these and other influential First Amendment...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Message Production
Advances in Communication Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The last two decades have seen the development of a number of models that have proven particularly important in advancing understanding of message-production processes. Now it appears that a "second generation" of theories is emerging, one that reflects considerable conceptual advances over...
by Felix Babatunde Ale
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Communications - Media and Politics, Politic Communications, , language: English, abstract: Twitter which is a product of Computer Science and Technology advancements, improved the connenction between Donald Trump and the citizens of...