American Pragmatism and Communication Research (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Perry, David K.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This monograph examines the past, present, and potential relationship between American pragmatism and communication research. The contributors provide a bridge between communication studies and philosophy, subjects often developed somewhat in isolation from each other.

Addressing topics, such as qualitative and quantitative research, ethics, media research, and feminist studies, the chapters in this volume:
*discuss how a pragmatic, Darwinian approach to inquiry has guided and might further guide communication research;
*advocate a functional view of communication, based on Dewey's mature notion of transaction;
*articulate a pragmatist's aesthetics and connect it to Deweyan democracy;
*discuss the similarities and differences between Dewey's notion of inquiry and the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer;
*apply accommodation theory, linked to symbolic interactionism and more generally to the social behaviorism of George H. Mead and his followers, to media research;
*interpret media-effects evidence in light of pragmatist ideas about inquiry; and
*argue that pragmatism theorizes about despair and life's sense of the tragic.

This book is written to be readily accessible to students and professional academics within and outside the field of communication studies without extensive training in specialized areas of communication study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135657949
• Artikelnr.: 38243704

Autorenporträt

David K. Perry

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. P. Simonson
Varieties of Pragmatism and Communication: Visions and Revisions From Peirce to Peters. V.E. Cronen
J. Chetro-Szivos
Pragmatism as a Way of Inquiring With Special Reference to a Theory of Communication and the General Form of Pragmatic Social Theory. W. Woodward
Transactional Philosophy and Communication Studies. W.J. Leonhirth
William James and the Uncertain Universe. J. Jensen
Art
the Public
and Deweyan Cultural Criticism. R.T. Craig
Dewey and Gadamer on Practical Reflection: Toward a Methodology for the Practical Disciplines. J.S. Horne
Truth or Consequences: Pragmatism
Relativism
and Ethics. T. Meyer
Pragmatism and Mediated Communication. D.K. Perry
Shattering the Mirror: Linking Media-Effects Research and American Pragmatism. S. Shuler
M. Tate
Intersections of Feminism and Pragmatism: Possibilities for Communication Theory and Research. T.L. Jacobson
Habermas
Dewey
and Pragmatism. G.J. Shepherd
Pragmatism and Tragedy
Communication and Hope: A Summary Story.