This synthesis of communication theory, research and experience describes how the dialectical tension between the expression and suppression of conflict can be transcended in ways that lead to personal growth and productive patterns of social action.
This synthesis of communication theory, research and experience describes how the dialectical tension between the expression and suppression of confli...
Written from the authors' experience in conflict intervention in their private consulting practice, Engaging Communication in Conflict uses a communication perspective to address insights and methods in private mediation, small group facilitation, system design, large-scale interventions, and public-issue management. This book offers encouragement for a world sometimes overwhelmed by conflict and presents an expanded and pragmatic definition of peace.
Stephen Littlejohn and Kathy Domenici discuss numerous methods and principles in conflict resolution. They explore transformative...
Written from the authors' experience in conflict intervention in their private consulting practice, Engaging Communication in Conflict uses a commu...
Written from the authors' experience in conflict intervention in their private consulting practice, this book addresses insights and methods in private mediation, small group facilitation, system design, large-scale interventions, and public-issue management. It discusses numerous methods and principles in conflict resolution.
Written from the authors' experience in conflict intervention in their private consulting practice, this book addresses insights and methods in privat...
Written in a clear, engaging style Facework: Bridging Theory and Practice introduces a new paradigm that identifies facework as the key to communication within the management of difference. Authors Kathy Domenici and Stephen W. Littlejohn illustrate how facework is a central process in the social construction of both identity and community.
Written in a clear, engaging style Facework: Bridging Theory and Practice introduces a new paradigm that identifies facework as the key to communicati...
Written in a clear, engaging style Facework: Bridging Theory and Practice introduces a new paradigm that identifies facework as the key to communication within the management of difference. Authors Kathy Domenici and Stephen W. Littlejohn illustrate how facework is a central process in the social construction of both identity and community.
Written in a clear, engaging style Facework: Bridging Theory and Practice introduces a new paradigm that identifies facework as the key to communicati...
With more than 300 entries, these two volumes provide a one-stop source for a comprehensive overview of communication theory, offering current descriptions of theories as well as the background issues and concepts that comprise these theories. This is the first resource to summarize, in one place, the diversity of theory in the communication field.
Key Themes
Applications and Contexts
Critical Orientations
Cultural Orientations
Cybernetic and Systems Orientations
Feminist Orientations
Group and Organizational...
With more than 300 entries, these two volumes provide a one-stop source for a comprehensive overview of communication theory, offering current desc...
This book honors the life and work of the late W. Barnett Pearce, a leading theorist in the communication field. The book is divided into four sections. The first section will lead with an essay by Barnett Pearce. This will be followed by sections on (1) practical theory, (2) dialogue, and (3) social transformation. In the broadest sense, these are probably the three general themes found in the work of Pearce and his colleagues. In another sense, these categories also identify three important dimensions of Pearce's major contribution, the theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning.
This book honors the life and work of the late W. Barnett Pearce, a leading theorist in the communication field. The book is divided into four section...