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Communication in Everyday Life (Paperback, New)
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Communication in Everyday Life (Paperback, New)
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Communication in Everyday Life is the first survey of communication
textbook to explore fundamental communication concepts, theories,
skills, and contexts with a thematic integration-the relational
perspective-to everyday life that allows all of these things to
cohere. The book's approach is to make the topics
covered-self-development; interpersonal communication; group
communication; public speaking; media/technology; communicating in
the workplace and in public; etc.-coalesce by pointing out the
relational basis of all communication as a major feature of
students' lives. This text provides a basic introduction to the
usual topics that are covered in a survey text but does so in a
number of different ways by emphasizing the importance of
relationship contexts in the enactment of social life. In addition,
Communication in Everyday Life extends the topical coverage with
chapters on family communication, health communication,
communication in the workplace, and communication in the public
arena. The authors explore the ways relationships (between each
other, between family members, between media and end-user or
consumer, and between self and the community) affect communication,
and vice versa. When communicational life is seen as an everyday
experience-and not some compilation of unusual or extraordinary
sorts of activity that are usually offered in the separate and
segregated topic chapters in most textbooks-then it becomes
possible to explain many communication processes in a systematic
and unified way, based on the fundamental relevance of human
relationships to everyday experience. Even such activities as media
consumption are moderated by the relationships with which people
experience their daily lives. Hence, the underlying theme of
relationships usefully connects many aspects of a survey text that
will give it a coherence and a relevance to students that has been
previously missing, obscure, or under emphasized.
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