Communication Studies

This book is a first attempt to map the broad context of performance studies from a multimodal perspective. It collects original research on tradit...

'Discourse Power Address' identifies the existence of 'directive' address, a form of strategic communication which is employed in a number of domin...

Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 14501690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of womens letter-writing in En...

Communication Yearbook 38 continues the tradition of publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. Editor Elisia Cohen presents...

This book examines the materiality of writing. It adopts a multimodal approach to argue that writing as we know it is only a small part of the myri...

Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613, shows how rhetorical invention, elocution and ethos combined to create plausible represen...

How we understand, protect, and discharge our rights and responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society committed to the principle of politic...

Why? This question drives scientific inquiry, not least in the social sciences: why war, revolution, racism and inequality? Asking and debating abo...

In this new study, Farrelly gives a critical examination of democracy as it is conceived and practiced in contemporary advanced liberal nations. Th...

This book analyzes the role that human forms play in visualizing practical information and in making that information understandable, accessible, i...

Arguing, Reasoning, and Thinking Well offers an engaging and accessible introduction to argumentation and critical thinking. With a pro-social focu...

Communication Yearbook 37 continues the tradition of publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. Editor Elisia Cohen presents...

This Handbook is the first major work to comprehensively map state-of-the-art scholarship on electoral debates in comparative perspective. Leading ...

This book focuses on the uses of scientific evidence within three types of environmental discourses: popular nonfiction books about the environment...

Communication and relationships sit at the centre of our hyper-connected lives, and their effective management is a strategic necessity for all org...

Communication and relationships sit at the centre of our hyper-connected lives, and their effective management is a strategic necessity for all org...

Fearless Editing clearly articulates the basic concepts underlying editing techniques and demonstrates their application for newspapers, public rel...

Thanks to the rise of neoliberalism over the past several decades, we live in an era of rampant anxiety, insecurity, and inequality. While neoliber...

This title was first published in 2003:This book offers a bold reading of Protestant tradition from a rhetorical and literary perspective. Arguing ...

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning ...

How can cartoon images aid in understanding bacterial biological processes? What prompts physicists to blur their images before showing them to bio...

Originally published in 1971. On May 4th, 1970, shots fired by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University were heard around the world. People...

Promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of disease are inextricably linked to cultural understandings of health and well-being. Health commun...