Communication
Mediation
Takes mediation beyond the family arena into a broader context.
Being Made Strange
Offers a revised understanding of human subjectivity that avoids the extremes of both traditional humanism and cultural relativism.
Talking Problems
Presents a theory of discursive co-construction of problems, or how characters are portrayed in the telling of events.
Experiences between Philosophy and Communication
Leading scholars address the work of American philosopher Calvin O. Schrag.
Communication Best Practices at Dell, General Electric, Microsoft, and Monsanto
Highlights successful communication practices at Dell, General Electric, Microsoft, and Monsanto.
Writing Power
Adds to our understanding of the powerful nature of texts and writing.
The Idea of Identification
Drawing on examples from contemporary life, Woodward explores rhetorical conditions that create powerful moments of identification.
Moments of Meeting
Tells the story of the relationship between two of the last century's foremost scholars of dialogue, philosopher Martin Buber and psychotherapist Carl Rogers.
Counterpublics and the State
Explores antagonistic encounters between people, both individuals and groups, and governments.
Culture, Technology, Communication
Provides cross-cultural perspectives on computer-mediated communication.
If Life Is a Game, How Come I'm Not Having Fun?
Advocates applying a spirit of play to everyday life.
Spurious Coin
Offers a narrative history of technical writing as a cultural practice and the system of scientific knowledge it controls.
Acts of Arguing
Approaches recent innovations in argumentation theory from a primarily rhetorical perspective.
Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age
Offers insight and practical guidance for people interested in improving their interpersonal relationships in an age of rampant cynicism.
One-Sided Arguments
A practical manual for evaluating bias that will be useful to anyone who has to deal with arguments, whether in academic reading or writing, or in everyday conversation.
Order Without Rules
Questions whether the logic of language underlying Habermas's theory of communicative action is in fact the defining feature of conversational practice.
User-Centered Technology
Presents a theoretical model for examining technology through a user perspective.
The Mate Relationship
Provides research applications of a rules theory of mate relationships to several American cultures and two non-American cultures.
Electronic Discourse
Investigates the new world of computer conferencing and details how writers use language when their social interaction is exclusively enacted through text on screens.
Emerging Theories of Human Communication
Summarizes the important and promising emerging theories of human communication.
The Martin Buber - Carl Rogers Dialogue
A corrected and extensively annotated version of the sole meeting between two of the most important figures in twentieth-century intellectual life.
Developing Communication Theories
Leading scholars present the principal findings and conclusions of a long-term program of research into the nature and dynamics of human communication.
Bookend
Enacts and evokes the changes and creative possibilities emerging from contemporary literary technologies (electronic media).
Appeal to Pity
A useful contribution to theories of argumentation and public address criticism, this book uses a pragmatic approach to understanding conversation as a way of elucidating the use of appeals to pity and sympathy.
Memory, Identity, Community
This multidisciplinary volume documents the resurrection of the importance of narrative to the study of individuals and groups and argues that narrative may become a lingua franca of future debates in the human sciences.