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Challenging current work in communication and social psychology
that assumes face-to-face interaction can be adequately understood
without attending to discourse expression, this volume examines how
people's goals, concerns, and intentions can be related to
discourse expression. The text discusses discourse-goal linkages in
specific face-to-face encounters such as courtroom exchanges,
marital counseling, and intellectual discussions, as well as in
more general theoretical dilemmas. Because it poses a new set of
questions about social actors' motivations and pre-interactional
goals, this volume offers a new direction for discourse study --
one that seriously considers the thinking and strategy involved in
human communication.
Challenging current work in communication and social psychology
that assumes face-to-face interaction can be adequately understood
without attending to discourse expression, this volume examines how
people's goals, concerns, and intentions can be related to
discourse expression. The text discusses discourse-goal linkages in
specific face-to-face encounters such as courtroom exchanges,
marital counseling, and intellectual discussions, as well as in
more general theoretical dilemmas. Because it poses a new set of
questions about social actors' motivations and pre-interactional
goals, this volume offers a new direction for discourse study --
one that seriously considers the thinking and strategy involved in
human communication.
Karen Tracy examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in
state supreme courts as they debated the legality of existing
marriage laws. Exchanges in state appellate courts are juxtaposed
with the talk that occurred between citizens and elected officials
in legislative hearings considering whether to revise state
marriage laws. The book's analysis spans ten years, beginning with
the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of sodomy laws in 2003 and
ending in 2013 when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the federal
government's Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, and
it particularly focuses on how social change was accomplished
through and reflected in these law-making and law-interpreting
discourses. Focal materials are the eight cases about same-sex
marriage and civil unions that were argued in state supreme courts
between 2005 and 2009, and six of a larger number of hearings that
occurred in state judicial committees considering bills regarding
who should be able to marry. Tracy concludes with analysis of the
2011 Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on DOMA, comparing it to
the initial 1996 hearing and to the 2013 Supreme Court oral
argument about it. The book shows that social change occurred as
the public discourse that treated sexual orientation as a
"lifestyle " was replaced with a public discourse of gays and
lesbians as a legitimate category of citizen.
Grounded Practical Theory: Investigating Communication Problems
provides readers with an introduction to grounded practical theory
(GPT), a framework for doing research about the problems people
encounter when they engage in particular communicative practices,
techniques for managing those problems, and normative ideas for how
to communicate wisely in situations that involve tensions and
dilemmas. Readers learn about the philosophy behind GPT and how its
application can strengthen and improve existing communication
practices. They review a detailed road map and practical examples
for conducting GPT research, including how to analyze discourse.
They also learn how past researchers have creatively adapted GPT to
study and reconstruct a variety of communicative practices. The
text compares GPT with other qualitative approaches and offers
guidance for how to choose among different methods. The book
concludes with considerations of how GPT may be used in the future.
Grounded Practical Theory is an ideal book for graduate-level
courses in qualitative methods or communication theory and an
excellent resource for practicing communication scholars and
researchers.
Is there any place in America where passionate debate plays a
more vital role in democratic discourse than local school board
meetings? Karen Tracy conducted a thirty-five-month study of the
board meetings of the Boulder Valley School District between 1996
and 1999 to analyze just how democracy operates in practice. In
Challenges of Ordinary Democracy, she reveals the major role that
emotion plays in real-life debate and discerns value in what might
easily be seen as negative forms of discourse--voicing platitudes,
making contradictory assertions, arguing over a document's wording,
speaking angrily, attacking a person's character. By illuminating
this one arena of "ordinary democracy," Tracy hopes to engender a
new appreciation for how what she calls "reasonable hostility" can
be a desirable ideal of communication for debating public policy
issues.
In academic colloquia the most privileged and noble mission of
universities is exercised: the advancing and testing of ideas, the
production of truth and knowledge, an activity that is nothing less
than the "the essential sound for a place of thought." But, as
ideas advance and are tested, what are people doing? What is the
role for emotions and relationships? What worries do faculty and
graduate students bring to this occasion? What problems do
participants face as they talk with each other? How are problems
made visible in talk and given attention through talk? Colloquium
speaks to these questions by analyzing tape recorded discussions of
several academic groups, and interviews in which academics reflect
about their colloquium participation. Colloquium addresses three
key questions: (1) What are the communicative problems that face
graduate student and faculty participants? (2) What conversational
strategies are used in response to these problems? and (3) How
ought academics talk with each other? This book develops how the
academic colloquium is best conceived as a dilemmatic situation-a
communicative occasion involving tensions and contradiction. With a
dilemmatic perspective, colloquium problems experienced as diffuse
and hard to articulate become recognizable, various conversational
"trivia" become sensible, and specific moral/practical proposals
emerge as defensible and desirable courses of action. The work
covers views that colloquium problems form the perspective of
individual participants in their roles as presenters and
discussants, and graduate students and faculty members; dilemmas
discourse practices of the academic colloquium are examined from a
group perspective; and aphilosophical and pragmatic reconstruction
of practice.
This engaging text explores how everyday talk--the ordinary kinds
of communicating that people do in schools, workplaces, and among
family and friends--expresses who we are and who we want to be. The
authors interweave rhetorical and cultural perspectives on the
"little stuff" of conversation: what we say and how we say it, the
terms used to refer to others, the content and style of stories we
tell, and more. Numerous detailed examples show how talk is the
vehicle through which people build relationships. Students gain
skills for thinking more deeply about their own and others'
communicative practices, and for understanding and managing
interactional difficulties. New to This Edition *Updated throughout
to incorporate the latest discourse analysis research. *Chapter on
six specific speech genres (for example, organizational meetings
and personal conversation). *Two extended case studies with
transcripts and discussion questions. *Coverage of digital
communication, texting, and social media. *Additional
cross-cultural examples. Pedagogical Features *A preview and
summary in every chapter. *Accessible explanations of core
concepts. *End-of-book glossary. *Endnotes that identify key
authors and suggest further reading.
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