Description
Inviting Understanding provides a comprehensive, coherent portrait of invitational rhetoric in a way that allows readers to understand the theory, to explore possible extensions, to see the practices of invitational rhetoric at work, and to access a comprehensive bibliography of works on the subject.
About the Author
Sonja Foss is Professor of Communication at the University of Denver. She is co-author of Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World, 3rd edition (Waveland Press, 2012), which presents an entirely new model of presentational speaking rooted in invitational rhetoric, Women Speak: The Eloquence of Women's Lives (with Karen A. Foss) (Waveland Press, 1991) and Gender Stories: Negotiating Identity in a Binary World (with Karen A. Foss and Mary E. Domenico) (Waveland Press, 2013).
Cindy Griffin is Professor of Communication at Colorado State University. She is the author of Invitation to Public Speaking, 6th edition (Cengage, 2018) and Invitation to Human Communication, 2nd edition (Cengage, 2017). She is also the coauthor (with Karma Chavez) of Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies (SUNY Press, 2012), which received the Outstanding Book Award of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender in 2012 and is completing a book on gender and communication, Beyond Gender Binaries: An Intersectional Orientation to Communication and Identities (SUNY Press)
Book Information
ISBN 9781538131039
Author Sonja K. Foss
Format Hardback
Page Count 414
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 980g
Dimensions(mm) 265mm * 187mm * 28mm
About the Author
Sonja Foss is Professor of Communication at the University of Denver. She is co-author of Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World, 3rd edition (Waveland Press, 2012), which presents an entirely new model of presentational speaking rooted in invitational rhetoric, Women Speak: The Eloquence of Women's Lives (with Karen A. Foss) (Waveland Press, 1991) and Gender Stories: Negotiating Identity in a Binary World (with Karen A. Foss and Mary E. Domenico) (Waveland Press, 2013).
Cindy Griffin is Professor of Communication at Colorado State University. She is the author of Invitation to Public Speaking, 6th edition (Cengage, 2018) and Invitation to Human Communication, 2nd edition (Cengage, 2017). She is also the coauthor (with Karma Chavez) of Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies (SUNY Press, 2012), which received the Outstanding Book Award of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender in 2012 and is completing a book on gender and communication, Beyond Gender Binaries: An Intersectional Orientation to Communication and Identities (SUNY Press)
Book Information
ISBN 9781538131039
Author Sonja K. Foss
Format Hardback
Page Count 414
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 980g
Dimensions(mm) 265mm * 187mm * 28mm
