Dialogue : theorizing difference in communication studies / edited by Rob Anderson, Leslie A. Baxter, Kenneth N. Cissna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Rob, 1945-

Baxter, Leslie A.

Cissna, Kenneth N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialogue analysis.

Communication--Philosophy.

Communication.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 315 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2004]

Summary:

Dialogue: Theorizing Difference in Communication Studies is the first anthology of work on dialogic approaches to communication that offers a state-of-the-art collection of original essays in this emerging research area. Editors Rob Anderson, Leslie A. Baxter, and Kenneth N. Cissna have gathered the most respected scholars in the field to describe their research projects, discuss critical elements of dialogue, and anticipate the evolution of the study of dialogue. With a foreword by Julia T. Wood, contributors include James R. Taylor, Stanley Deetz and Jennifer Simpson, Sheila McNamee and John Shotter, and Mark McPhail.

Contents:

Foreword: Entering Into Dialogue / Julia T. Wood xv

1. Texts and Contexts of Dialogue / Rob Anderson, Leslie A. Baxter, Kenneth N. Cissna 1

Part I Exploring the Territories of Dialogue 19

2. Relationships Among Philosophies of Dialogue / John Stewart, Karen E. Zediker, Laura Black 21

3. Taking a Communication Perspective on Dialogue / W. Barnett Pearce, Kimberly A. Pearce 39

4. The Ontological Workings of Dialogue and Acknowledgment / Michael J. Hyde 57

5. A Dialogic Ethic "Between" Buber and Levinas: A Responsive Ethical "I" / Ronald C. Arnett 75

6. Dialogue, Creativity, and Change / Sheila McNamee, John Shotter 91

Part II Personal Voices in Dialogue 105

7. Dialogues of Relating / Leslie A. Baxter 107

8. Dialogue as the Search for Sustainable Organizational Co-Orientation / James R. Taylor 125

9. Critical Organizational Dialogue: Open Formation and the Demand of "Otherness" / Stanley Deetz, Jennifer Simpson 141

10. Dialectical Tensions and Dialogic Moments as Pathways to Peak Experiences / H. L. Goodall, Jr., Peter M. Kellett 159

11. Double Binds as Structures in Dominance and of Feelings: Problematics of Dialogue / Leonard C. Hawes 175

Part III Public Voices in Dialogue 191

12. Public Dialogue and Intellectual History: Hearing Multiple Voices / Kenneth N. Cissna, Rob Anderson 193

13. Race and the (Im)possibility of Dialogue / Mark Lawrence McPhail 209

14. When is Communication Intercultural? Bakhtin, Staged Performance, and Civic Dialogue / Mary S. Strine 225

15. Media Studies and the Dialogue of Democracy / John J. Pauly 243

16. Concluding Voices, Conversation Fragments, and a Temporary Synthesis / Rob Anderson, Leslie A. Baxter, Kenneth N. Cissna 259.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-303) and index.

ISBN:

0761926704

0761926712

OCLC:

52348927