Elements of Speech Communication
- Textbook
Elements of Speech Communication
- Textbook
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Since its inception, The Elements of Speech Communication has been predicated on several beliefs about teaching and learning in communication. Good communication pedagogy combines insights gained from scholarship of all types as well as personal experience. Communication competence cannot be achieved by precept, it is a combination of understanding, sensitivity, skills, and ethical responsibility, and it is developed by a combination of theory, practice, and analysis.
People understand and practice communication in many ways, and since the first edition of the book, the field of communication has expanded immensely its offering of useful concepts and ideas. This new edition has been affected by the growing literature in the field and by authors' expanding awareness of possibilities.
Many of features that have always given The Elements of Speech Communication its character have been retained, so that the 'feel' of the book is about the same. Every chapter begins with a story or provocative allusion. Relevant photographs add interest and give pause for thought. And, of course, the image shifts, which have been unique to this book from its inception, still challenge students to look at the subject in new ways. To make the text easier the authors have added a complete glossary.
A Collegiate Press book
Table of Contents
Part 2 PART I: CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES
Part 3 Chapter 1: Communication and Society
Chapter 4 Communication Competence
Chapter 5 Tools for Improving Communication
Chapter 6 Three Basic Perspectives on Communication
Chapter 7 A Fourth Approach: The Transactional Perspective
Chapter 8 Summary
Part 9 Chapter 2: Basic Elements: Language and Nonverbal Communication
Chapter 10 The Coding Process
Chapter 11 Verbal Coding: Language
Chapter 12 Nonverbal Coding
Chapter 13 Problems of Coding
Chapter 14 Summary
Part 15 Chapter 3: Basic Elements: Meaning and Thinking
Chapter 16 The Nature of Meaning
Chapter 17 The Nature of Thinking
Chapter 18 Communication Problems: Meaning and Thinking
Chapter 19 Summary
Part 20 Chapter 4: Basic Elements: Information and Persuasion
Chapter 21 The Uses and Processing of Information
Chapter 22 Persuasion as Change
Chapter 23 Problems of Information and Persuasion
Chapter 24 Summary
Part 25 PART II: COMMUNICATION SETTINGS
Part 26 Chapter 5: Understanding and Improving Interpersonal Communication
Chapter 27 Rules and Relationships: A Transactional Perspective
Chapter 28 Interpersonal Conflict
Chapter 29 Communicating with Family and Friends
Chapter 30 Summary
Part 31 Chapter 6: Understanding and Improving Professional Communication
Chapter 32 Entering a Career
Chapter 33 Interviewing
Chapter 34 Supportiveness and Assertiveness
Chapter 35 Summary
Part 36 Chapter 7: Understanding and Improving Group Communication
Chapter 37 Understanding Group Communication
Chapter 38 Communicating Effectively in Groups
Chapter 39 Assuming Leadership Functions
Chapter 40 Summary
Part 41 Chapter 8: Public Communication: Analysis
Chapter 42 Perspectives and Concepts of Public Communication
Chapter 43 Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation
Chapter 44 Bridging Communicative Gaps
Chapter 45 Summary
Part 46 Chapter 9: Public Communication: Synthesis
Chapter 47 Developing the Central Idea
Chapter 48 Organization
Chapter 49 Delivery
Chapter 50 Summary
Part 51 Chapter 10: Mass Communication: Reception and Analysis
Chapter 52 Basic Issues and Concepts in Mass Communication
Chapter 53 Improving Media Receivership
Chapter 54 Summary
Part 55 Notes
Part 56 Glossary
Part 57 Index
Product details
| Published | 01 Jan 1996 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 3rd |
| Extent | 372 |
| ISBN | 9780742577978 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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