Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age: Community, Hope, and Interpersonal Relationships

Ronald C. Arnett

Offers insight and practical guidance for people interested in improving their interpersonal relationships in an age of rampant cynicism. Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age offers a philosophical and pragmatic response to unreflective cynicism. Considering that each of us has faced inappropriate cynical communication in families, educational institutions, and the workplace, this book offers insight and practical guidance for people interested in improving their interpersonal relationships in an age of rampant cynicism.

Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age: Community, Hope, and Interpersonal Relationships (SUNY Series in Communication Studies)

Pat Arneson

Parenting & Relationships

State University of New York Press

This comprehensive and engaging treatment of communication ethics combines student application and theoretical engagement. Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference reviews classic communication ethics approaches and extends the conversation about dialogue and difference in public and private life. Introducing communication ethics as a pragmatic survival skill in a world of difference, the authors offer a learning model that frames communication ethics as arising from a set of goods found within particular narratives, traditions, or virtue structures that guide human life.

Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference

Politics & Social Sciences

Janie Harden Fritz

Leeanne M. Bell

Philosophy

Sage Publications, Inc.

Winner of the Everett Lee Hunt Award 2013. Winner of the National Communication Association (NCA) Philosophy of Communication Division’s award for Best Book. An Overture to Philosophy of Communication: The Carrier of Meaning explores a world beyond information accumulation, stressing meaningful engagement with existence. Meaning is composed between and among persons, ideas, and activities of communicative engagement. Meaning is central to the study and practice of philosophy of communication, providing story-laden guidance. The book examines philosophical differences between Boss and Zorba, following the development of their friendship in Zorba the Greek. Their story helps to exemplify the meaningful coordinates of philosophy of communication established in each chapter. The authors claim meaning as the pivotal conceptual terrain for philosophy of communication. This book offers a rationale for the pragmatic necessity of philosophy of communication in understanding the «how» and the «why» of orchestrating meaning from information and discourse throughout our communicative lives.

An Overture to Philosophy of Communication: The Carrier of Meaning (Peter Lang Media and Communications)

Annette M. Holba

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Communication ethics is imperative in the 21st century as the prevalence of conflicting opinions endangers successful, respectful communication.
Utilizing a dialogic approach to ethical communication, Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference provides a timely review of classic communication ethics literature and extends the conversation about dialogue and difference in public and private life. Understanding communication ethics as a pragmatic survival skill in a world of difference, this work frames communication ethics as a discipline and practice that arises from multiple understandings of goods found across diverse narratives, traditions, and virtue structures that guide human life.
Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference
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<li>Presents “The Dialogic Learning Model” as a framework offering guidelines for ethical decision making in several communicative contexts, such as interpersonal, intercultural, and organizational settings.</li>
<li>Examines communication ethics in varied arenas, such as health care settings, businesses, the electronic/digital realm, and more.</li>
<li>Applies theory to everyday life with examples drawn from multiple perspectives in personal and professional life. Incorporates Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables to further illustrate principles in each chapter and examine the ethical struggles that constitute the human condition.</li>
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Reference

Leeanne Mcmanus

Janie Fritz

Words, Language & Grammar

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

We live in an age of ethical disputes, making conflict inevitable as we meet others with contrasting ethical positions and contrary communicative expectations. An ethical position held with conviction frequently generates conflict when one encounters another with a differing ethical standpoint embraced with equal assurance. Conflict Between Persons: The Origins of Leadership conceptualizes communication and conflict as a pragmatically essential everyday education for future leadership.&nbsp; Conflict Between Persons: The Origins of Leadership emphasizes creative and constructive reactions to conflict responsiveness with three basic coordinates: (1) learn before, during, and after a conflict, (2) understand what matters to you and others, and (3) acknowledge that conflict engagement involves alertness to, and understanding of, what matters in the interplay of self and others and the immediate and larger communicative environment. Leadership begins with the study and practice of communication ethics understood as background that carries a sense of a given good that we seek to protect and promote. The study of communication ethics does not shelter us from conflict; in fact, it invites conflict, providing clarity about what is important to us and to others. Leadership frames the larger significance of behavior by announcing what matters, turning isolated conduct and conflict into meaningful action situated within a story.&nbsp; The authors conceptualize communication and conflict as an existential education for leadership that begins with a willingness to enter the fray of everyday disagreement propelled by a pragmatic objective: learning from others and difference. Communicative leadership in an era of routine contentiousness must engage and learn from diverse convictions and conceptions of what matters. Conflict Between Persons: The Origins of Leadership: <ul> <li>Examines the complex issues of ethical diversity; ethical positions can now generate conflict.&nbsp;</li> <li>Uses the insights of communication/leadership expert Gail T. Fairhurst, the book frames the reality of conflict as an ongoing pragmatic education for leadership.&nbsp;</li> <li>Examines emotion, sentiment, conflict origins, difference, the interplay of relationships and perceptions, self talk and internal conflict, the power of opinion, multiplicity of conflict styles, the danger of anachronistic responses, and alternatives to destructive conflict.&nbsp;</li> <li>Introduces the Odyssey in the final chapter as a case study to examine the interplay of conflict, ethics in dispute, and leadership in action.</li> <li>Is student friendly! The publication incorporates key terms, glossary, index, and navigational aids such as boldface terms, headings, sub-heads, and informational sidebars to serve as helpful reference points.&nbsp;</li> <li>Is instructor friendly! An instructor's manual includes chapter objectives, key terms, chapter outlines, learning activities, suggestions for supplemental movies and books, journal reflection questions, test questions (multiple choice, true/false, and essay), comprehensive Power Point presentations, and summarized Power Point presentations with discussion questions.</li> </ul>

Conflict Between Persons: The Origins of Leadership

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