Emerging Theories of Human Communication (SUNY series, Human Communication Processes) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791434524 ISBN 13: 9780791434529

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1997

Synopsis

Summarizes the important and promising emerging theories of human communication.

This book summarizes the important and promising emerging theories of human communication that go beyond received traditions. It includes essays on emerging theories of communication and culture; relational communicative competence; conflict communication; communication and peace; agenda setting and the role of mass media in democratic political processes; new rhetoric and new social movements; and communication and management of public-sector competitiveness.

Contributors to this volume include Deborah Blood, Dudley D. Cahn, Donal Carbaugh, Ron B. Cullen, Donald P. Cushman, William A. Donohue, Timothy Gibson, Gerard A. Hauser, Trudy Milburn, Hiroshi Ota, Jiro Takai, Susan Whalen, John M. Wiemann, Mary O. Weimann, and Jian H. Zhu.

About this title

About the Author

Branislav Kovacic is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Hartford. He is editor of New Approaches to Organizational Communication, and coeditor of Watershed Research Traditions in Human Communication Theory both published by SUNY Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791434524
• ISBN 13: 9780791434529
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: Kovacic Branislav