Takes mediation beyond the family arena into a broader context.

Offers a revised understanding of human subjectivity that avoids the extremes of both traditional humanism and cultural relativism.

Presents a theory of discursive co-construction of problems, or how characters are portrayed in the telling of events.

Leading scholars address the work of American philosopher Calvin O. Schrag.

Highlights successful communication practices at Dell, General Electric, Microsoft, and Monsanto.

Adds to our understanding of the powerful nature of texts and writing.

Drawing on examples from contemporary life, Woodward explores rhetorical conditions that create powerful moments of identification.

Tells the story of the relationship between two of the last century's foremost scholars of dialogue, philosopher Martin Buber and psychotherapist Carl Rogers.

Explores antagonistic encounters between people, both individuals and groups, and governments.

Provides cross-cultural perspectives on computer-mediated communication.

Advocates applying a spirit of play to everyday life.

Offers a narrative history of technical writing as a cultural practice and the system of scientific knowledge it controls.

Approaches recent innovations in argumentation theory from a primarily rhetorical perspective.

Offers insight and practical guidance for people interested in improving their interpersonal relationships in an age of rampant cynicism.

A practical manual for evaluating bias that will be useful to anyone who has to deal with arguments, whether in academic reading or writing, or in everyday conversation.

Questions whether the logic of language underlying Habermas's theory of communicative action is in fact the defining feature of conversational practice.

Presents a theoretical model for examining technology through a user perspective.

Provides research applications of a rules theory of mate relationships to several American cultures and two non-American cultures.

Investigates the new world of computer conferencing and details how writers use language when their social interaction is exclusively enacted through text on screens.

Summarizes the important and promising emerging theories of human communication.

A corrected and extensively annotated version of the sole meeting between two of the most important figures in twentieth-century intellectual life.

Leading scholars present the principal findings and conclusions of a long-term program of research into the nature and dynamics of human communication.

Enacts and evokes the changes and creative possibilities emerging from contemporary literary technologies (electronic media).

A useful contribution to theories of argumentation and public address criticism, this book uses a pragmatic approach to understanding conversation as a way of elucidating the use of appeals to pity and sympathy.

This multidisciplinary volume documents the resurrection of the importance of narrative to the study of individuals and groups and argues that narrative may become a lingua franca of future debates in the human sciences.