Transgressing Discourses: Communication and the Voice of Other

Huspek, Michael; Radford, Gary P., editors

ISBN 10: 0791433544 / ISBN 13: 9780791433546

Published by SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 1997

About this Item

Book in black illustrated wraps has minor shelf-wear, tight, bright, and unmarked. An introduction, postscript, and thirteen learned theory-heavy essays. In the SUNY series, Human Communication Processes. A nice copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transgressing Discourses: Communication and the Voice of Other
• Publisher: SUNY Press, Albany, NY
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791433544
• ISBN 13: 9780791433546
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

The basic theme of this volume is excellent. Readers are treated to fascinating explorations of communication at the boundaries between discourses and selves. The essays address important theoretical issues, and do so often by treating significant social issues. Most welcome is the constructive tone that is for the most part maintained throughout the volume, demonstrating an effort to understand, engage, and critically assess different discourses and selves (and others) at once, without valorizing one over the other.

An essential theme running through this volume is the idea that our efforts to engage, as well as other's efforts to engage us, have been seriously impaired because of problems which are fundamentally communicative in nature. More specifically, there is general agreement among the contributors that the voice of other has not been sufficiently heard, and this on account of how discourses of the human sciences, as well as other dominant discourses (e.g. law) have structured our interaction with other. Each of the essays helps to clarify the nature of the communicative failing and to develop an appropriate corrective action.

About the Author

Michael Huspek is Associate Professor of Communication at California State University, San Marcos Gary P. Radford is Associate Professor of Communication at William Paterson College of New Jersey.