Postfeminist News

Mary Douglas Vavrus

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• Examines the representation of women in the media. Winner of the 2003 Diamond Anniversary Book Award presented by the National Communication Associati... Lees meer

Rhetorical Hermeneutics

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• Examines the nature of rhetorical theory and criticism, the rhetoric of science, and the impact of poststructuralism and postmodernism on contemporary... Lees meer

Organizing Silence

Robin Patric Clair

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• A thought-provoking look at how silence is embedded in our language, society, and institutions. Sexual harassment is explored as an example. Winner of... Lees meer

The Martin Buber - Carl Rogers Dialogue

Rob Anderson, Kenneth N Cissna

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• A corrected and extensively annotated version of the sole meeting between two of the most important figures in twentieth-century intellectual life. Lees meer

Moments of Meeting

Kenneth N Cissna, Rob Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• Tells the story of the relationship between two of the last century's foremost scholars of dialogue, philosopher Martin Buber and psychotherapist Carl... Lees meer

Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• Looks at the critical role of community members and other interested parties in environmental policy decision making. The contributors to this volume ... Lees meer

A New Beginning

Joanne Morreale

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• This book is a postmodern analysis of Ronald Reagan's 1984 film, A New Beginning, which marked the coming-of-age of the televisual political campaign ... Lees meer

Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization

Stanley a Deetz

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• According to Deetz, our obsolete understanding of communication processes and power relations prevents us from seeing the corporate domination of publ... Lees meer

Family Violence

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• Contributors engage the communication issues associated with violence in families, including interspousal violence and violent parents and children. A... Lees meer

The Theory and Practice of Political Communication Research

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• Provides insight into the world of political communication through its explication of theory and research methodology. Focusing on theoretical and met... Lees meer

The DAO of Rhetoric

Steven C Combs

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• Examines the ways Daoist (Taoist) thought may contribute to an understanding of human communication. In the first book to systematically deal with Dao... Lees meer

Peaceful Persuasion

Ellen W Gorsevski

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• Offers a conceptual foundation for nonviolent rhetoric. Lees meer

Language as Articulate Contact

John Stewart

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• John Stewart is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Washington. Lees meer

Telling the Success Story

Pamela J Benoit

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• How do individuals tell their success stories when they want to secure recognition, but avoid appearing arrogant? By examining success stories of Nobe... Lees meer

Talking Problems

Richard Buttny

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• Presents a theory of discursive co-construction of problems, or how characters are portrayed in the telling of events. Using discursive constructionis... Lees meer

Accounts, Excuses, and Apologies

William L Benoit

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• Because responding to complaints is such an important part of human relations, this type of discourse has been studied in various disciplines. However... Lees meer

Rhetoric and Civility

Harold Barrett

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• This book relates the concept of civility to rhetorical disposition, and incivility to indisposition. The author discusses classical rhetorical theory... Lees meer

Silencing the Opposition

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• This volume examines major challenges to the First Amendment using illustrative case studies of the various forms of governmental suppression in our h... Lees meer

Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age

Ronald C Arnett, Pat Arneson

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age offers a philosophical and pragmatic response to unreflective cynicism. Considering that each of us has faced inapp... Lees meer

Plausible Argument in Everyday Conversation

Douglas Walton

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• This book provides a practical and accessible way of evaluating good and bad arguments used in everyday conversations by applying normative models of ... Lees meer

If Life Is a Game, How Come I'm Not Having Fun?

Paul Brenner

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• In this lively and enlightening book, Paul Brenner suggests that treating life's events and everyday activities as a game would lead to a more sociall... Lees meer

Zen in the Art of Rhetoric

Mark McPhail

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• Explores relationships between classical and contemporary approaches to rhetoric and their connection to the underlying assumptions at work in Zen Bud... Lees meer

Beyond the Symbol Model

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• This interdisciplinary conversation discusses the nature of language. Beyond the Symbol Model: Reflections on the Representational Nature of Language ... Lees meer

Warranting Assent

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Communication Studies
• This book brings together essays that demonstrate the art of argument evaluation. The essays apply a variety of theoretical approaches to specific, hi... Lees meer