Product Description: Written by the leading gender communication scholar, this text introduces students to theories, research, and pragmatic information that demonstrates the multiple, often interactive, ways in which our views of masculinity and femininity are shaped within contemporary culture. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Third Edition of this highly respected and widely cited text takes an applied, problem-solving approach that recognizes the creative potential of the individual. It serves as a handbook on a variety of small-group communication activities, including conducting meetings (using the standard agenda) and handling conflict...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This text is a sophisticated and comprehensive integration of current theory and research on communication and relationships. It emphasizes communication as the primary process through which individuals create, develop, and sustain intimate relationships while exploring the many ways gender, culture, and social context affect communication in personal interactions...read more

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Product Description: This book offers a holistic approach to the field of communication by first explaining the basic processes central to all communication contexts (e.g. listening, perceiving, using verbal and nonverbal communication, establishing climate) and then applying these processes to various contexts (interpersonal, small group, public, organizational, intercultural, electronically mediated communication, and mass communication)...read more

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Growing out of a six-year process of reflection, deliberation and writing, and involving over 100 members of the discipline, the chapters comprising this book indentify and launch reflection about primary questions that must be engaged by research and pedagogy if the field of speech communication is to remain vital in academe and the social world. Four questions were identified as fundamental to future research and teaching which reflect the heritage of speech communication and involve the discipline in vigorous dialogue about consequential intellectual and cultural issues. They are: what do technological developments and changes in the mission and means of communication imply for future teaching and scholarship on speech communication?; what and whose purposes within and beyond the field do definitions of speech communication serve?; how does increasing interest in cultural diversity affect research and teaching in speech communication; and what relationships exist among communication, power and order, and how should these issues individually and in tandem be reflected in scholarship and teaching? A group of chapters is devoted to exploring each of these questions. In recognising what is shared by scholars and teachers in diverse areas, and in calling attention to the four issues that will become increasingly prominent in the cultural landscape, the chapters spotlight themes and foci germane to the field's health and identity in the years ahead.

Product Description: The diverse and emergent forms of relationships, increasingly evident in today's society, are the focus of this volume. Outstanding researchers discuss relationships that are often overlooked in the literature, including: lesbian and gay; cultural minority; long-lasting marriages; non-marital cohabitation; long-distance; friendships developed through computer networks; and work relationships which are simultaneously hierarchical and friendly...read more

Product Description: Even in the closest of relationships, things can go wrong. This volume takes an honest look at difficulties, dilemmas and challenges in relationships and examines useful management and tolerance skills. Topics explored include: anger; having enemies; the family after divorce; interpersonal violence; codependency; HIV//AIDS; chronic illness; and bereavement...read more

Product Description: This work is a synthesis of the experiences of four academic communication professors at different points in their careers. They reflect on issues such as promotion and tenure, the philosophy of the profession, the future of the academy and the concerns of groups new to the academic community...read more

Product Description: Offering a theoretically coherent and integrated introduction, the book examines how communication (symbolic activity) occurs in a range of contexts from individual perception and thought to interpersonal and public situations. It provides solid theoretical grounding for understanding the centrality of communication, integrating research on gender throughout so that it is understood as a primary screen on communicative behavior...read more

Product Description: The essays and their authors are: "Speech Communication after 75 Years: Issues and Prospects" by Dennis S. Gouran; "Constituted by Agency: The Discourse and Practice of Rhetorical Criticism" by Sonja Foss; "Contemporary Developments in Rhetorical Criticism: A Consideration of the Effects of Rhetoric" by Richard A...read more