W. Barnett Pearce (Fielding Graduate University)

Broschiertes Buch

Making Social Worlds

A Communication Perspective

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781405162609
• ISBN-10: 1405162600
• Artikelnr.: 22953921

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