Professional Communication: The Social Perspective / Edition 1

by Nancy Louise Roundy Blyler, Charlotte Thralls

Overview

This volume examines socially-based theory and research, pedagogy and practice in professional communication. The contributors provide a comprehensive overview of the social perspective which emphasizes the context of communication, and then distinguish it from positivistic, cognitive and other competing approaches. After establishing a broad framework for situating developments in professional communication research, the book then moves on to: explore more particular topics, issues and problems within the perspective; examine the historical and theoretical traditions in rhetoric, semiotics, literary criticism, philosophy of science, social psychology and cultural anthropology; discuss implications for classroom practice in professional com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803939356
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/21/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	0.70(w) x 5.50(h) x 8.50(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword - Charles Bazerman
PART ONE: HISTORY, THEORY AND RESEARCH
Overviews
The Social Perspective and Professional Communication - Charlotte Thralls and Nancy Roundy Blyler
Diversity and Directions in Research
Rhetoric Unbound - Bruce Herzberg
Discourse, Community and Knowledge
Interpretations
Ideology and the Map - Ben F Barton and Marthalee S Barton
Toward a Postmodern Visual Design Practice
Formalism, Social Construction and the Problem of Interpretive Authority - Thomas Kent
Generic Constraints and Expressive Motives - Joseph J Comprone
Rhetorical Perspectives on Textual Dialogues
You Are What You Cite - Carol Berkenkotter and Thomas N Huckin
Novelty and Intertextuality in a Biologist's Experimental Article
The Role of Law, Policy and Ethics in Corporate Composing - James E Porter
Toward a Practical Ethics for Professional Writing
Conflict in Collaborative Decision-Making - Rebecca E Burnett
Validity and Reliability as Social Constructions - Janice M Lauer and Patricia Sullivan
PART TWO: PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE
Overviews
Collaboration and Conversation in Learning Communities - Jone Rymer
The Discipline and the Classroom
Postmodern Practice - Richard C Freed
Perspectives and Prospects
Interpretations
Gender Studies - Mary M Lay
Implications for the Professional Communication Classroom
The Group Writing Task - Meg Morgan
A Schema for Collaborative Assignment Making
Viewing Functional Pictures in Context - Charles Kostelnick