W. Barnett Pearce

Making Social Worlds (eBook, PDF)

A Communication Perspective

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective offers the most accessible introduction to the tools and concepts of CMM - Coordinated Management of Meaning - one of the groundbreaking theories of speech communication.

• Draws upon advances in research for the most up-to-date concepts in speech communication
• 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
• Questions how we can intervene in dangerous or undesirable patterns of communication that will result in better social worlds

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470766408
• Artikelnr.: 38211107

Autorenporträt

W. Barnett Pearce is Professor in the School of Human and Organization Development, Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California. Dr. Pearce has published extensively on communication theory and is one of the principal developers of the theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) currently in use by scholars and practitioners.

Inhaltsangabe

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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Rezensionen

"Making Social Worlds is an exciting and gutsy volumereadable by a range of audiences. The focus on critical interactionmoments allows intelligent probing communication-basedanalyses of everything from couples fighting to wars andinternational relations. The conversational writing style kept meengaged from beginning to end." Stanley Deetz. ProfessorDirector of Peace and Conflict Studies NationalCommunication Association Distinguished ScholarInternational Communication Association Past-President andFellow

"This is not only a marvelously lucid updating of CMM theory, italso demonstrates the broad applicability of this importantconceptual work to problems and potentials of human communication."Kenneth J. Gergen, author of An Invitation to SocialConstruction