This collection of 25 essays distills the best thinking about communication principles, messages, and relationships penned by more than two dozen award-winning communication scholars.
By positioning the words communication and wisdom side by side, this book provides insights into the intersection of these two critical elements for living a good life. Recognizing that contemporary communication is increasingly fraught with frustration and disagreement, contributors offer wise insights into how to identify and address communication challenges. Through personal examples of what the study of communication means to them, contributors offer perspectives and advice on crafting ethical purposeful messages, listening, and connecting with people. In doing so, each essay presents a thoughtful commentary about what others can do to become knowledgeable and skillful communicators.
An array of truly expert voices celebrating what works and what is effective in enhancing the quality of human communication, this book is an important companion text for Introduction to Communication courses as well as a primary resource for Capstone courses. It will also be of interest to anyone who seeks to enhance their application of communication principles and practices to their lives.
This collection of twenty-eight essays distills the best thinking about communication principles, messages, and relationships penned by more than two dozen award-winning communication scholars. It will also be of interest to anyone who seeks to enhance their application of communication principles and practices to their lives.
Introduction Steven A. Beebe Part 1: Wisdom About Communication
Principles
1. Five Principles for Good Communication Sherwyn Morreale
2. We
All Can Be Better Communicators! Philip Backlund
3. Communication Basics Don
Boileau
4. How Do You Know When Youve Communicated? It Depends!
5. Mechayeh:
Yiddish for Life Sustaining, a Blessing
6. Finding Wisdom and Telling
Stories in a 4-Tier Model of Communication
7. Speculations on Communication
Wisdom
8. Understanding Communication as a Process Part 2: Wisdom About
Communication Messages
9. Communication is the Beginning of Understanding
10.
Lessons Learned About Communication
11. Using Rhetoric to Frame
Communication: Symbols and Their Consequences
12. Two Lessons Learned: The
Teacher is Taught
13. Communication and Your Popular Culture Collage
14.
Gravitating Toward Communications Gray Zone: Seven Lessons for Productive
Dialogue
15. About the Usefulness of Cooperative Argumentation and
Dissociations
16. Everything I Know about Life I Learned in Debate Part 3:
Wisdom About Communication Relationships
17. Its Not About You
18. The Wise
Communicators Caring Presence
19. Socio-Emotional Intelligence,
Communication, and Enhanced Quality of Life
20. Communication Wisdom:
Reducing Uncertainty
21. Humanity, Integrity, Optimism, and Communication:
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao
22. Communication Wisdom:
Symbols, Decentering, Active Listening, and Facework
23. Bridging the Trust
Gap
24. The Ultimate Benefits of Affectionate Communication Epilogues:
Reflections by the Editors About Communication Wisdom
25. Reflections on
Wisdom
26. Commencement Wisdom
27. Going for Gold Wisdom
28. Pearls of Wisdom
Philip Backlund is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication at Central Washington University, USA.
Steven A. Beebe is Regents and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication Studies at Texas State University, USA. He is a Past President of the National Communication Association.
Ronald D. Gordon is Professor of Communication at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA. He is a Past President of the Pacific and Asian Communication Association.
Sherwyn P. Morreale is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA. She is a Past Associate Director of the National Communication Association.
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