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Social Approaches to Communication
Edited by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
Foreword by Robert T. Craig
"The collection situates current communication research in relation t o contemporary trends in philosophy and the social sciences, thereby ending once and for all the intellectual isolation of the field that has rendered it unable to make substantial contributions to wider social theory. Social Approaches to Communication makes a significant contribution to the current rethinking of the procedures and purpose of the social sciences. It will be of special interest to communication researchers designing new research projects, those interested in theoretical debates in communication, and those of us in teaching."
-Ian Angus, Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
"...an exciting and timely collection of essays that questions the relevance of tradition al theoretical assumptions and research methods and reconstructs the interpersonal communication process as central to our understandings of practice and theory. All the chapters in this book reflect, to a greater or lesser extent, the broader philosophical revolution underway oriented to the reconceptualization of communication as the basic problematic in the human/social sciences...This book is both a statement of where we are now in communication theory and research and points provocatively and excitingly to where we could and should go."
-Robyn Penman, PhD, Director, Communication Research Institute of Australia
-Ian Angus, Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
"...an exciting and timely collection of essays that questions the relevance of tradition al theoretical assumptions and research methods and reconstructs the interpersonal communication process as central to our understandings of practice and theory. All the chapters in this book reflect, to a greater or lesser extent, the broader philosophical revolution underway oriented to the reconceptualization of communication as the basic problematic in the human/social sciences...This book is both a statement of where we are now in communication theory and research and points provocatively and excitingly to where we could and should go."
-Robyn Penman, PhD, Director, Communication Research Institute of Australia
