Interpersonal Communication: Making Social Worlds

By W. Barnett Pearce

Book Overview

Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective offers the most accessible introduction to the tools and concepts of CMM - Coordinated Management of Meaning - one of the groundbreaking theories of speech communication.

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405162600
• ISBN13: 9781405162609
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"