Communication Studies

The book examines the system used to produce professional communicators in the United States, compares the system to that of other countries, and examines the impact of the system on the field of mass communications. In addition, it explores the...

From Language to Communication focuses on the structure of texts and on the social and psychological aspects of language. Utilizing current thinking and research, this volume provides an overview of issues in linguistics, sociolinguistics, cognition,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893914745Author Brenda L. DervinFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Drawing widely on sociological, economic, and political theory cominbined with detailed attention to technical, business, and sociological evidence, this critical scholarly work offers a comprehensive analysis both of the significance of computing and...

Focusing on the adoption of color television standards in France, this work notes the degree to which technical standards are the result of political and economic phenomena and demonstrates how small technical differences are exploited for large gains...

This, the 15th annual volume of the Index, contains data from public opinion polls in more than 180 countries and regions, including 18 countries in Eastern and Central Europe. Among the highlights of this volume are significant amounts of data on such...

Focusing on pioneers in journalism, contemporary media professionals, and scholars in interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication, this book provides full profiles of 48 outstanding women in communication. Each profile examines the woman's...

This book is the first scholarly exploration of the daytime serial television drama. The primary focus is on the social world as reflected in soap operas. Among the major areas examined within the society of daytime drama are the people, their problems,...

Talking Science discusses the role of language in teaching and in communication of scientific and technical subjects. It identifies and analyzes the many strategies teachers and students use to communicate about science and to influence one another's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893915520Author Bruce A. AustinFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The chapters in this volume represent an approach to the notion of language transfer which reflects the paradigm shift originating from cognitive science. The perception and expression of ideas and events in one language in terms of another language is...

This book identifies, documents, and analyzes the major dimensions of U.S. prime-time TV content. By exmining fictional TV series run in prime-time and on Saturday mornings over three seasons, the author and his research team have put together a...

This volume examines the role of social factors in the nature and development of written communication. Unlike previous works, the volume is dedicated to examining the ways in which written communication affects and is affected by the community of...

This book exmines the 1978 Mass Media Declaration of UNESCO, not only for its historical and diplomatic implications, but for its importance to the basic professional training and lifelong education of journalists. It is the first comprehensive book to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893916114Author Brian WeinsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893915834Author Harris WinitzFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Has the relationship between the media and international relations undergone a fundamental change since Bernard Cohen wrote the 1962 classic, The Press and Foreign Policy? Using data from three years of empirical research at the highest level of the U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893910990Author Deborah TannenFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Focusing on the role communication plays in the process of student socialization at the elementary and secondary school levels, this text examines the underlying theoretic framework. It contains chapters that explore the socialization process by...

Teaching Revising and Editing is devoted to the many facets of the writing, revising, and publication process. It provides a comprehensive overview of the literature over the past 25 years and applies to writing activities in K-12, undergraduate,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780275903169Author Christopher H. SterlingFormat HardbackPage Count 457Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893913496Author Susanna BarberFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book reviews research in linguistics, psychology, reading and writing, and brings this work to bear on the problem of readable writing. The research supports the theory that two factors in text are crucial to its readable quality: psycholinguistic...

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This text challenges the quantitative, social science perspective on intercultural communication by examining critical issues from diverse perspectives. Key topics include historical and religious perspectives; racial and ethnic issues; cross-cultural...

This third annual report presents comparative year-to-year data on the nature of violence on television across programme genres and channel types in the United States. It contains an analysis of how the new television rating system was initially...

The growing connections between media, culture and religion are increasingly evident in contemporary society, but until now have rarely been theoretically linked. The contributors to this volume effectively combine these areas into a coherent whole. The...

In this fascinating volume Kenneth O Doyle provides a conceptual framework for understanding the social meanings of money and property, and the psychological, cultural, economic and political variables which contribute to these meanings. The author...

`The book makes a successful attempt to map the potentially transformative effects of new media on various aspects of political insitiutions and culture, both at a theorectical and empirical level. Barrie Axford's discussion of the changing nature of...

In this perceptive analysis, Dana Cloud traces the replacement of social and political activism by the pursuit of personal, psychological change. She identifies the new movement as the `rhetoric of therapy', where a persuasive cultural discourse that...

Like its predecessor, the bestselling CyberSociety, published in 1994, Cybersociety 2.0 is rooted in criticism and analysis of computer-mediated technologies to assist readers in becoming critically aware of the hype and hopes pinned on computer-mediated...

This volume provides an up to date overview and assessment of intercultural communication theories. Advancements stimulated by empirical research resulting from the 1983 title in the same series, Intercultural Communication Theory, are reflected in this...

Written by renouned professionals in the fields of information and communication technologies, this volume explores the subject matter through the discussion of theory and field studies as well as insights from other research. Students and researchers...

''Over the past three decades, United States foreign policy, new immigrant communities, and increasing global economic interdependence have contributed to an increasingly complex political economy in AmericaAEs major cities. For instance, recent...

Research and study in argumentative communication has been one of the most dominant lines of communication research for the past two decades. Argumentative and Aggressive Communication is the first book entirely devoted to the theory-building, research...

This volume is a comprehensive analysis of research and theory on verbal communication and social influence. It examines a variety of empirical studies, theoretical positions, methodological matters and substantive issues pertaining to the use of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994150202Author Geoffrey R. MarnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Burdock BooksPublisher Burdock Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893914929Author Donald CarbaughFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book is about young children and their writing and reading development during their first few years of life. It stops at the point where most books on beginning writing and reading start: when the child is 5-6 years old and is able to write and read...