Professional Communication: The Social Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780803939356 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 296 str.

Nancy Roundy Blyler; Charlotte Thralls; Charles Bazerman

Opis

This volume examines socially-based theory and research, pedagogy and practice in professional communication. The contributors provide a comprehensive overview of the social perspective which emphasizes the context of communication, and then distinguish it from positivistic, cognitive and other competing approaches. After establishing a broad framework for situating developments in professional communication research, the book then moves on to: explore more particular topics, issues and problems within the perspective; examine the historical and theoretical traditions in rhetoric, semiotics, literary criticism, philosophy of science, social psychology and cultural anthropology; discuss implications for classroom practice in professional com