Communication category: 5490 books
Intrapersonal Communication
Different Voices, Different Minds
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Intrapersonal communication is a relatively new phenomenon for communication study and still lacks the grounding of a sound theoretical base. The first to present a developed theory of this discipline, this book's goal is to provide graduate students and professionals with an organized point of departure...
Communication Among Grandmothers, Mothers, and Adult Daughters
A Qualitative Study of Maternal Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
This volume examines communication processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, emphasizing an intergenerational perspective. Using observations of and extensive interviews with six sets of middle-income, Caucasian female family members, this book offers a heuristic account of intergenerational...
Intercultural Communication for Global Business
How leaders communicate for success
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book brings together principles and new theories in intercultural communication in a concise and practical manner, focusing on communication as the foundation for management and global leadership.
Grounded in the Cultural Intelligence Model, this compact text examines the concepts associated...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
In this comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of risk communication, the field’s leading experts summarize theory, current research, and practice in a range of disciplines and describe effective communication approaches for risk situations in diverse contexts, such as health, environment, science,...
Crisis Communication
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Crises happen. When they do, organizations must learn to effectively communicate with their internal and external stakeholders, as well as the public, in order to salvage their reputation and achieve long-term positive effects. Ineffective communication during times of crisis can indelibly stain an...
The Darker Side of Family Communication
The Harmful, the Morally Suspect, and the Socially Inappropriate
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This volume advances theory and research by presenting original, empirical studies as well as theoretical and methodological overviews on dark family communication processes.
Taking an interdisciplinary and international approach, the volume includes contributions from the most respected scholars...
The Experience of Human Communication
Body, Flesh, and Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This book deals with matters of embodiment and meaning—in other words, the essential components of what Continental thought, since Heidegger, has come to consider as “communication.” A critical theme of this book concerns the basic tenet that consciousness of one’s Self and one’s body is...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
The third and final volume in the series on Communication Processes, Communication, Culture and Confrontation is a bold attempt at breaking conceptual and methodological impasses which stifle communication studies. Departing from established frameworks and dated technological metaphors such as 'transmission',...
Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication
Communicating as a Global Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Winner of the National Communication Association's International and Intercultural Communication Division's 2014 Outstanding Authored Book of the Year award
This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its...
Terrorism and Communication
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Based on the premise that terrorism is essentially a message, Terrorism and Communication: A Critical Introduction examines terrorism from a communication perspective—making it the first text to offer a complete picture of the role of communication in terrorist activity. Through the extensive examination...
Political Campaign Communication
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practice, Ninth Edition uses a speech-communication perspective to examine how elective politics contributes to our knowledge and understanding of the electoral process. Through historical and contemporary examples, this book offers readers a realistic...
by Jennifer L. Bevan
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book won the 2014 National Communication Association’s Diamond Anniversary Book Award
This book received the 2014 Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Book Award from the «Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association» and the «National Communication Association...
by Adrienne Boissy, Timothy Gilligan,
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Put relationship-centered communication at the forefront of care
Today, physicians face a hypercompetitive marketplace in which they must meet unique and complex patient needs as efficiently as possible. But in a culture prioritizing clinical outcomes above all, there can be a tendency to lose...
Communication Studies
The Essential Resource
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
This book brings together a huge range of material including academic articles, film scripts and interplanetary messages adrift on space probes with supporting commentary to clarify their imporatance to the field. Communication Studies: The Essential Resource is a collection of essays and texts for...