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Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective (PDF eBook)


Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective (PDF eBook)

eBook by Pearce, W. Barnett

Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective (PDF eBook)

£93.95

ISBN:
9780470766408
Publication Date:
09 Feb 2009
Publisher:
Wiley
Imprint:
Wiley-Blackwell
Pages:
272 pages
Format:
eBook
For delivery:
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Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective (PDF eBook)

Description

Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective offers the most accessible introduction to the tools and concepts of CMM O Coordinated Management of Meaning O one of the groundbreaking theories of speech communication. O Draws upon advances in research for the most up-to-date concepts in speech communication O Defines the 'critical moments' of communication for students and practitioners; encouraging us to view communication as a two-sided process of coordinating actions and making/managing meanings O Questions how we can intervene in dangerous or undesirable patterns of communication that will result in better social worlds

Contents

Preface. 1. Critical moments that shape our social worlds. 2. Taking a communication perspective on social worlds. 3. Paradigms and the physics of social worlds. 4. Communication: Coordinating Actions and Making/Managing Meanings. 5. Doing things in communication: Speech acts. 6. Episodes and patterns of communication. 7. Selves and forms of consciousness. 8. Relationships and relational minds. 9. Afterword: Something of a guide for using CMM. .

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