Communication in Everyday Life - Softcover

Duck, Steve; McMahan, David T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412969573 ISBN 13: 9781412969574

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2009

Synopsis

Communication in Everyday Life is the first survey of communication textbook to explore fundamental concepts, theories, and skills with a thematic integration―the relational perspective―aimed at helping students apply the material to their own lives. This book provides students with a strong foundation in communication concepts, theory, and research, while helping them master practical communication skills, such as listening and critical thinking, using technology to communicate, understanding nonverbal communication, creating persuasive strategies, and managing group conflict. Ideal for 21st-century classrooms, this text provides up-to-date insight into the communication topics students increasingly want and need.

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Duck taught in the United Kingdom before taking up the Daniel and Amy Starch Distinguished Research Chair in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. He has been a professor of communication studies, an adjunct professor of psychology, and a former Dean’s Administrative Fellow and is now Chair of the Rhetoric Department. He has taught interpersonal communication courses, mostly on relationships but also on nonverbal communication, communication in everyday life, construction of identity, communication theory, organizational leadership, and procedures and practices for leaders. More recently, he has taught composition, speaking, and rhetoric, especially for STEM students. By training an interdisciplinary thinker, Steve has focused on the development and decline of relationships, although he has also done research on the dynamics of television production techniques and persuasive messages in health contexts. Steve has written or edited 60 books on relationships and other matters and was the founder and, for the first 15 years, the editor of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. His book Meaningful Relationships: Talking, Sense, and Relating won the G. R. Miller Book Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Steve cofounded a series of international conferences on personal relationships. He won the University of Iowa’s first Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in 2001 and the National Communication Association’s Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award in 2004 for “dedication to excellence, commitment to the profession, concern for others, vision of what could be, acceptance of diversity, and forthrightness.” He was the 2010 recipient of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Helen Kechriotis Nelson Teaching Award for a lifetime of excellence in teaching, and in the same year was elected one of the National Communication Association’s Distinguished Scholars. He received the NCA’s 2019 Mark L. Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication for career contributions to the study of interpersonal communication. He hopes to make it to the Iowa State Fair one day.

Review:

“[I liked] the organization of the material as a hybrid text without the heavy emphasis on public speaking, the inclusion of topics such as health communication and technology in communication, and the author′s focus on a relational perspective.” Author: Martha Antolik Published On: 2010-10-18

"Communication in Everyday Life′ is a well-written and comprehensive text for introductory communication courses, and a must for learning about communication in institutions with separate public-speaking courses." Author: Martha Antolik Published On: 2010-10-18

“I like the relational approach―communicating in and understanding relationships could be the most important stuff our students learn.” Author: Dale Burke Published On: 2009-08-25

“This text, better than others I have reviewed, is a more comprehensive review of the field and introduces students to the gamut of the discipline―this is a true introduction to communication in everyday life.” Author: Jerry E. Fliger Published On: 2009-08-25

“A true relational approach that has real world applicability....Students reading this text should easily see the practical application of the concepts to their own lives.”

Author: Martin Hatton Published On: 2009-08-25

“It was definitely engaging, and every sentence made me want to continue....This text is very organized, easily understood, has great pictures (with text that relates the picture with what is being taught).... I love how [this book] relates to the reader.”

Author: Student Published On: 2009-08-25

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1412969573
• ISBN 13: 9781412969574
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480