Full Description
This volume chronicles the development of communication studies as a discipline, providing a history of the field and identifying opportunities for future growth. Editors Pat J. Gehrke and William M. Keith have assembled an exceptional list of communication scholars who, in the thirteen chapters contained in this book, cover the breadth and depth of the field. Organized around themes and concepts that have enduring historical significance and wide appeal across numerous subfields of communication, A Century of Communication Studies bridges research and pedagogy, addressing themes that connect classroom practice and publication.
Published in the 100th anniversary year of the National Communication Association, this collection highlights the evolution of communication studies and will serve future generations of scholars as a window into not only our past but also the field's collective possibilities.
Contents
Introduction. A Brief History of the National Communication Association
Pat J. Gehrke & William M. Keith
Discovering Communication: Five Turns toward Discipline and Association
J. Michael Sproule
Paying Lip Service to "Speech" in Disciplinary Naming, 1914-1954
Gerry Philipsen
The Silencing of Speech in the Late 20th Century
Joshua Gunn & Frank E.X. Dance
Epistemological Movements in the Field of Communication: An Analysis of Empirical and Rhetorical/Critical Scholarship
James A. Anderson & Michael K. Middleton
The Scholarly Communication of Communication Scholars: Centennial Trends in a Surging Conversation
Timothy D. Stephen
Sexing Communication: Hearing, Feeling, Remembering Sex/Gender and Sexuality in NCA
Charles E. Morris III & Catherine Helen Palczewski
Liberalism and its Discontents: Black Rhetoric and the Cultural Transformation of Rhetorical Studies in the 20th Century.
Reynoldo Anderson, Marnel Niles Goins, & Sheena Howard
A Critical History of the "Live" Body in Performance within the National Communication Association
Tracy Stephenson Shaffer, John M. Allison Jr., & Ronald J. Pelias
Listening Research in the Communication Discipline
David Beard & Graham Bodie
Conceptualizing Meaning in Communication Studies
Brian L. Ott & Mary Domenico
Communicative Meeting: From Pangloss to Tenacious Hope
Ronald C. Arnett
Afterword. What's Next?
William F. Eadie
