Creating Conversations: Improvisation in Everyday Discourse (Perspectives on Creativity)

Conversation is one of those everyday, commonsense abilities that we can all do without thinking. But paradoxically, understanding how conversation works is one of the most difficult problems for scientists - for example, even after decades of research, computers are still miserable conversationalists. This text explores this paradox: how can conversation be so difficult, and at the same time come to us so naturally. The answer to the paradox is found in the creativity of everyday conversation. The author, a psychologist and an expert in the sciences of creativity of everyday conversation, shows that the same basic creativity - improvisational creativity - is found in conversation, jazz, children's play, and theatre.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sawyer, R. Keith

Social Sciences

Hampton Press, Inc.

Instead of examining the impact of media on society, Tilted Mirrors explores how society shapes media coverage. How do communities affect the way media build different issue perspectives or frames? The book adopts an innovative community structure approach, arguingand finding that inequality in cities significantly drives coverage of critical events.

Tilted Mirrors: Media Alignment with Political and Social Change [Hampton Press Communication Series (Mass Media & Journalism Subseries)]

John C. Pollock

It has been called the world's worst recorded natural disaster and the largest earthquake in 40 years, galvanizing the largest global relief effort in history. For those involved in the discipline and/or practice of communications, it presented a unique case study from a number of perspectives. The overwhenlming significance of this volume comes from its being a combination of both academic scholars and development practitioners in the field. Its poignancy becomes underscored from their wide-ranging perspectives, with 21 chapters representing some 14 countries. Their realities provide not only credibility but also an unprecedented sensitivity to communication issues.

Tsumani Communication (Communication, Globalization and Cultural Identity)

Linda Fuller

Imagined Interactions are a type of daydreaming in which individuals think about conversation in their minds. This volume reports on a number of fascinating studies on imagined interactions. Among the topics covered are conflict and physical violence, physiology and road rage, breavement following the death of a spouse and imagined interactions within organizations.

Imagine That: Studies in Imagined Interactions (The Hampton Press Communication: Interpersonal Communication)

James Honeycutt

This volume examines the nature and influence of oral teacher narratives in a single instructional unit. The analyses focus on narrative data that the author generated during a 6-week thematic unit that was taught by a third year teacher in a public school. The topic of the Holocaust was chosen because it was well suited for the exploration of oral narrative. Because teaching is analyzed through a rhetorical lens, the book is situated at the intersection of classroom discourse studies, rhetoric and composition, and sociolinguistic approaches to narrative

The Rhetoric of Teaching: Understanding the Dynamics of Holocaust Narratives in an English Classroom (Discourse and Social Processes)

Reference

Mary Juzwik

Words, Language & Grammar

How are ethics, morals, and laws related to communication and communication technologies? In what ways--and to what degree--do communication technologies shape, maintain, and/or alter moral practices and sensibilities regarding justice and the good? In this provocative and engaging collection, noted scholars and media ecologists address these questions and many more. A must have anthology for anyone seeking to understand how communication and communication technologies bear upon valuation and life more generally

Valuation and Media Ecology: Ethics, Morals, and Laws (Hampton Press Communication Series: Media Ecology)

Corey Anton

The Word and the World: The Cultural Politics of Literacy in Brazil (Understanding Education and Policy)

Education & Teaching

Lesley Bartlett

Schools & Teaching

The Elephant in the Classroom: Race and Writing (Research and Teaching in Rhetoric and Composition)

While many works have been written about African American students and composition, they tend to examine the students themselves: their language, attitudes toward education, and successes and difficulties with writing. This collection examines the social construct of the classroom itself. In examining the classroom as a social construct, the authors consider the academy's traditions and expectations for writing and the teaching of writing; the role of Standard American English as a language that is typically privileged; the importance of understanding African American English (both its grammar and rhetoric); the effects of evaluation of student writers; and ultimately, strategies and approaches that are more likely to help both instructors and students create a classroom community.

Jane Bowman Smith

Over the last decade, colleges and universitits have begun to pay significant attention to "multimodal rhetoric" - rhetoric that uses not just words, but a wide range of compositional elements, including still images, moving images, charts, graphs, illustrations, annimations, layout schemes, colors, music, ambient noise and other media components. This book explores how multimodal rhetoric may prompt foundational changes in writing centers, which have proven themselves, over the last several decades, to be a highly effective means of providing peer-based support for writers.

Multiliteracy Centers

James A. Inman

David M Sheridan

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Writing in the Research University: A Darwinian Study of WID With Cases from Civil Engineering (Research and Teaching in Rhetoric and Composition)

How do engineers learn to think and write like engineers? How do art historians learn to think and write like art historians? How do journalists or biologists learn to think and write like the professionals that they become? Do we learn to think and write primarily by enculturation-or can we be taught how to write in various disciplines? If anything can be taught, what practices stand out as best practices? Needed to address these questions is a cohesive theory of writing in the disciplines (WID), one that accounts for both discipline-specific features of writing and features that cut across many disciplines. To that end, this book re-examines contemporary sociohistoric theories of writing from an evolutionary perspective. An evolutionary perspective of WID suggests that disciplines (complexes of academic arguments) not only change, but they evolve much like species do via a dual process of variation and selection in forums of competition. An Evolutionary perspective puts a spotlight on what endures as well as what changes in complexes of academic arguments.

Writing in the Research University: A Darwinian Study of WID with Cases from Civil Engineering (Research and Teaching in Rhetoric and Composition)

Martha Davis Patton

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