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题名/责任者:

The work and workings of human communication / Robert E. Sanders.

出版发行项:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, [2021]

ISBN:

9781119706489

ISBN:

1119706483

载体形态项:

xxxi, 272 pages ; 23 cm.

其他载体形态:

Online version: Sanders, Robert E., 1944- The work and workings of human communication. Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2021. 9781119706526

丛编说明:

Foundations of communication theory

丛编统一题名:

Foundations of communication theory.

个人责任者:

Sanders, Robert E., 1944- author.

论题主题:

Communication-Study and teaching (Higher)

论题主题:

Communication in social work-Study and teaching (Higher)

中图法分类号:

G206

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (unnumbered page 264-page 269) and index.

内容附注:

Preface -- Section one: Preliminaries : 1. Communication among animate creatures, especially us humans -- 2. The overall effectiveness of human communication -- Section two: Fundamentals of human communication : 3. Human-made environments we create and participate in communicatively -- 4. Our expressive means and communication media -- 5. Making communication work in the human-made environment -- Section three: The communication discipline and its place in the social sciences : 6. The communication discipline's foundation and evolution -- 7. The communication discipline's subject areas -- 8. Positioning the communication discipline among the social sciences -- Section four: Scientific inquiry in the social sciences and in communication : 9. The practice of scientific inquiry in general -- 10. Scientific inquiry in the social sciences -- 11. Social scientific inquiry in the communication discipline -- Bibliography -- Index.

摘要附注:

"Written in four sections, The Work and Workings of Human Communication identifies the underlying fundamentals of human communication that make it distinctively human. They make us the only creature who can, and has to, reflect on the workings of its own communication, and engage in special efforts to make it work. They are the common ground that ties together the many topics and subject matters covered by the Communication discipline. Researcher and theorist Robert E. Sanders starts by pointing out that communication matters, but that there is much we still have to find out about how it does and why. He moves on to examine its workings as the engine of our human-made environment, and then how greatly the Communication discipline's topics have broadened, and may evolve further, as we try to capture that. Sanders positions communication at the center of the ways of life we create and participate in together, which is the basis of the unique contribution to knowledge that the Communication discipline makes among the other social sciences. This original way of representing our discipline and our subject matter empowers readers to engage in independent thought about: the importance of communication in creating, sustaining, changing and participating in our ways of life on an interpersonal and societal level; human communication as inherently collaborative, where people affect situations by interacting with others, not acting on others; the history, current agendas, and possible future of the social science side of the Communication discipline. A perfect resource for new graduate students in introductory Communication courses who have an interest in the social science side of the discipline, The Work and Workings of Human Communication is also highly valuable for undergraduate Communication and liberal arts students, and for thinkers both within academia and outside it who have become interested in how and why communication plays the central role it does in our lives"--page 4 of cover.

摘要附注:

"This book interweaves two main topics. One topic is the work and workings of human communication that make it a fit subject for scientific inquiry within an independent discipline, the Communication discipline. The other topic is the history, current agendas, and possible future interests of the social science side of our discipline. The book concludes with attention to how social science inquiry goes about being scientific, and then how our discipline does, when our subject matter is the actions of a self-driving, self-regulating being, an intelligent being with agency. It complicates matters that we social scientists are ourselves beings of the kind we study, making the achievement of scientific detachment a particularly thorny matter. This book assumes that such detachment is possible; probably not by individuals at a time, but at least by scientific communities over time. The book was written to socialize and professionalize graduate students in introductory, gateway Communication courses who are headed for a career on the social science side of the Communication discipline-whether a career as a researcher or theorist, or (along with students on other side(s) of the discipline) scholar, teacher, trainer, or professional communicator. The book can be used as the primary text in such courses, optionally supplemented by primary readings on selected topics; or it can be used as a supplement to more traditional textbooks. In addition, the book's treatment of the workings and work of human communication, and how the Communication discipline has undertaken to examine those, can support the interests of advanced undergraduate students who have elected to concentrate their studies on communication"--

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