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Sage Publications Ltd (London, 2006) (eng) English9781483329055UnknownUnknownCOMMUNICATION-PHILOSOPHY; Description based on print version record.; Includes bibliographical references and index; What does it mean to argue that communication is organizing? Or ritual? Or failure? What is at stake in choosing one metaphor or stance over another? What is gained and what is lost - for the field, for the theories themselves, and especially for humans communicating in everyday contexts? In Communication as…: Perspectives on Theory, editors Gregory J. Shepherd, Jeffrey St. John, and Ted Striphas bring together a collection of 27 essays that explores the wide range of theorizing about communication, cutting across all lines of traditional division in the field.
The essays in this text are written by leading scholars in the field of communication theory, with each scholar employing a particular stance or perspective on what communication theory is and how it functions. In essays that are brief, argumentative, and forceful, the scholars propose their perspective as a primary or essential way of viewing communication with decided benefits over other views.
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Summary / review / table of contents
Making. Relationality / Celeste M. Condit --
Ritual / Eric W. Rothenbuhler --
Transcendence / Gregory T. Shepherd --
Constructive / Katherine Miller --
Practice / Robert T. Craig --
Materializing. Collective memory / Carole Blair --
Vision / Cara A. Finnegan --
Embodiment / Carolyn Marvin --
Raced / Judith N. Martin, Thomas K. Nakayama --
Social identity / Jake Harwood --
Techné / Jonathan Sterne --
Contextualizing. Dialogue / Leslie A. Baxter --
Autoethnography / Arthur P. Bochner, Carolyn S. Ellis --
Storytelling / Eric E. Peterson, Kristin M. Langellier --
Complex organizing / James R. Taylor --
Structuring / David R. Seibold, Karen Kroman Myers --
Politicizing. Political participation / Todd Kelshaw --
Deliberation / John Gastil --
Diffusion / James W. Dearing --
Social influence / Frank Boster --
Rational argument / Robert C. Rowland --
Counterpublic / Daniel C. Brouwer --
Questioning. Dissemination / John Durham Peters --
Articulation / Jennifer Daryl Slack --
Translation / Ted Striphas --
Communicability / Briankle G. Chang --
Failure / Jeffrey St. John.