Metaphors of Identity

By Thomas K. Fitzgerald
Subjects: Anthropology And Archaeology
Series: SUNY series, Human Communication Processes

Placing identity within its cultural context, Fitzgerald offers ethnographic case material to examine the meaning and changing metaphors of ethnicity, male and female identity, and aging and identity. ...

Organizational Communication and Cultural Vision

By Mary L. Mohan
Subjects: Business And Economics
Series: SUNY series, Human Communication Processes

This book provides a review and synthesis of contemporary theory and research on organizational culture. Chapters focus on a wide variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to culture, identifying ...

Interpersonal Communication in Friend and Mate Relationships

By Anne Maydan Nicotera
Subjects: Communication
Series: SUNY series, Human Communication Processes

A concentration on communication processes is essential to sorting out fundamental problems in interpersonal relationships. This book provides a general theory of the role of communication in interpersonal ...

Organizational Communication and Management

Edited by Andrzej Kozminski & Donald P. Cushman
Subjects: Business And Economics
Series: SUNY series, Human Communication Processes

Political Communication

Edited by Sarah Sanderson King & Donald P. Cushman
Subjects: Communication
Series: SUNY series, Human Communication Processes

Using the theatric metaphors of a passion play in Poland, simultaneous ethnic dramas in Yugoslavia, a heroic poem in Armenia, and a bunraku puppet play in the People's Republic of China, the authors of ...

Speaking Culturally

By Gerry Philipsen
Subjects: Communication
Series: SUNY series, Human Communication Processes

Speaking Culturally presents case studies of two cultures, focusing on how speaking is thematized and enacted in each. The Teamsterville culture is drawn from the author's studies of the spoken life of ...

Communal Webs

By Tamar Katriel
Subjects: Anthropology And Archaeology
Series: SUNY series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies, SUNY series, Human Communication Processes

This book brings together insights derived from a detailed exploration of Israeli cultural patterns of communication, highlighting their role in the processes of culture formation, maintenance, and change. ...

Human Communication as a Field of Study

Edited by Sarah Sanderson King
Subjects: Communication
Series: SUNY series, Human Communication Processes

The authors analyze and discuss the field of communication from a multidimensional point of view. Divided into three parts, the first traces its history from scientific, humanistic, and technological ...

Letting Go

By Dudley D. Cahn
Subjects: Communication
Series: SUNY series, Human Communication Processes

While many books in the popular press deal with relationships, Letting Go is among the first to draw upon scholarly research to offer a theoretical perspective with practical implications. Cahn examines ...

Cognitive Foundations of Calculated Speech

By Robert Sanders
Subjects: Communication
Series: SUNY series, Human Communication Processes

In Cognitive Foundations of Calculated Speech, Robert E. Sanders shows that whether one communicates to get a response or to make one, the cognitive problem is the same—to calculate whether intended ...

Communication in Interpersonal Relationships

Edited by Donald P. Cushman & Dudley D. Cahn
Subjects: Communication
Series: SUNY series, Human Communication Processes

This book discusses communication principles, processes, and skills from four different perspectives by explaining four related propositions. First, human communication is guided by socially established ...