基本説明
Explores the significance of real-world communication concerns that people today are confronted with. Situations such as raising and educating children in families and schools, structuring work environments, and coping with and helping others to face significant illnesses are covered in the context of the applied communication discipline.
Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication Research provides a state-of-the-art review of communication scholarship that addresses real-world concerns, issues, and problems. This comprehensive examination of applied communication research, including its foundations, research methods employed, significant issues confronted, important contexts in which such research has been conducted, and overviews of some exemplary programs of applied communication research, shows how such research has and can make a difference in the world and in people's lives.
The sections and chapters in this Handbook:
explain what constitutes applied communication scholarship, encompassing a wide range of approaches and clarifying relationships among theoretical perspectives, methodological procedures, and applied practices
demonstrate the breadth and depth of applied communication scholarship
review and synthesize literature about applied communication areas and topics in coherent, innovative, and pedagogically sound ways
set agendas for future applied communication scholarship.
Unique to this volume are chapters presenting exemplary programs of applied communication research that demonstrate the principles and practices of such scholarship, written by the scholars who conducted the programs.
As an impressive benchmark in the ongoing growth and development of communication scholarship, editors Lawrence R. Frey and Kenneth N. Cissna provide an exceptional resource that will help new and experienced scholars alike to understand, appreciate, and conduct high-quality communication research that can positively affect people's lives.
Contents
Part 1: Foundations of Applied Communication Research Part 2: Methods of Applied Communication Research Part 3: Issues in Applied Communication Research Part 4: Contexts of Applied Communication Research Part 5: Exemplary Programs of Applied Communication Research
