Making Social Worlds: A Communication PerspectiveISBN: 978-1-4051-6259-3
Hardcover
272 pages
November 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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- An accessible introduction to the tools and concepts of speech
communication theory, offering a unique balance of theory and
application
- Uses examples of how practitioners work with the theory of
Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM), creating both a conceptual
framework and a set of practical tools
- 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