"Communication" as a Cultural Category

Links:

How Americans Communicate: The National Communication Association (NCA) commissioned Roper Starch Worldwide to conduct a survey of how Americans communicate (Summer 1998).

Suggested Readings:

Cameron, D. (2000). Good to talk? Living and working in a communication culture. London, UK: Sage.

Carbaugh, D. (1988). Talking American: Cultural discourse on Donohue. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Carbaugh, D. (1989). Fifty terms for talk: A cross-cultural study. In S. Ting-Toomey & F. Korzenny (Eds.), Language, culture and communication: Current directions (pp. 93-120). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Carey, J. W. (1989). Communication as culture: Essays on Media and  society. Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman.

Chang, H.-C. (1997). Language and words: Communication in the Analects of Confucius. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 16, 107-131.

Chang, H.-C., Holt, G. R. (1996). The changing Chinese interpersonal world: Popular themes in interpersonal communication books in modern Taiwan. Communication Quarterly, 44, 85-106.

Grossberg, L. (1982). The ideology of communication: Post-structuralism and the limits of communication. Man and World, 15(1), 83-102.

Hall, P. M., & Hewitt, J. P. (1970, Summer). The quasi-theory of communication and the management of dissent. Social Problems, 18(1), 17-??.

Katriel, T., & Philipsen, G. (1981). 'What we need is communication':  'Communication' as a cultural category in some American speech. Communication Monographs, 48, 301-317.

Kennedy, G. A. (1997). Comparative rhetoric: An historical and cross- cultural introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kincaid, L. D. (Ed.). (1987). Communication theory: Eastern and western  perspectives. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Mattelart, A. (1996). The invention of communication (S. Emanuel, Trans.). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Mattelart, A. (2000). Networking the world, 1794-2000 (L. Carey- Libbrecht & J. A. Cohen, Trans.). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Osborne, G., & Lewis, G. (1996). Communication traditions in 20th- century Australia. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Philipsen, G. (1992). Speaking culturally: Explorations in social  communication. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Updated January 20, 2002

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