Context and Communication Behavior

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Context and Communication Behavior

Editor: James L. Owen

Description: Communication researchers have become interested in contextualistic philosophy and pragmatic thinking to release their field from the hold of mechanism and mentalism. In this ground-breaking volume some of the best known communication theorists and researchers from around the world consider the role of context in the analysis of human speech and communication.

Contents:

  • World Views as Context for Communication Studies by James L. Owen
  • Objectivism as the Basic Context for Theory and Research in Communication by Nancy Grant Harrington & Robert N. Bostrom
  • From Modernity to Postmodernity: Recontextualizing Communication Theory by Alan D. DeSantis
  • Pragmatism and Context: A Matter of Pattern by Katherine L. Adams
  • The Meaning and Use of "Context" in the Theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning by Jonathan G. Shailor
  • Theories of Culture, Communication, and Context by Bradford "J" Hall
  • Social Contexts for Communication: Communicative Power as Past and Present Social Consequences by Bernanrd Guerin
  • Communication as History and Evolution: Comparing Contextualism and Symbolic Interactionism by Dennis C. Alexander
  • Vygotsky's Contextualism: Cultural Historical Psychology by Tom Whelan
  • Cognitive Representation of Rhetorical Situations by Gary Cronkhite
  • An Impersonal Basis for Shared Interpretations of Messages in Context by Robert E. Sanders
  • Context\'s "Culture": Speech by Frank E. X. Dance
  • The Behavior-Context Interface in Interethnic Communication by Young Yun Kim
  • Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales: Human Communication in Evolutionary Context by Jo Liska
  • The Concept of Context in Social Communication Theory by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
  • The Researcher in Communication: The Primary Research Position by Robyn Penman
  • Context and Conversational Processes by Robert E. Nofsinger
  • Contingency Analysis Applied to the Pragmatics and Semantics of Naturally Occurring Verbal Interactions by Ullin T. Place>Rhetorical Contexts and Scholarly Inquiry by Jeanine Czubaroff
  • Narrative and Context: Communication's Milieu by Deborah S. Ballard-Reisch & Barbara C. Thornton
  • Culture as Communication Context: Finnish Cultural Characteristics in Political Television Programs by Maili Porhola, Aino Sallinen, & Pekka Isotalus
  • Between Challenge and Burden: Changing Contexts in East Germany after Democratization by Romy Frohlich
  • Shifts in Identity: The Contextualizing Function of Communication Technologies by Denice Yanni

ISBN: 1-878978-28-4
Publication date: 1997
Pages: 465
Binding: Hardcover

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