Dialogue : Theorizing Difference in Communication Studies

by Rob Anderson

• ISBN13: 9780761926702
• ISBN10: 0761926704
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-30
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

Dialogue: Theorizing Difference in Communication Studies is the first anthology of work on dialogic approaches to communication that offers a state-of-the-art collection of original essays in this emerging research area. Editors Rob Anderson, Leslie A. Baxter, and Kenneth N. Cissna have gathered the most respected scholars in the field to describe their research projects, discuss critical elements of dialogue, and anticipate the evolution of the study of dialogue. With a foreword by Julia T. Wood, contributors include James R. Taylor, Stanley Deetz and Jennifer Simpson, Sheila McNamee and John Shotter , and Mark McPhail .

Table of Contents

About the Editors	vii
About the Contributors	ix
Foreword: Entering Into Dialogue	xv
Julia T. Wood
Texts and Contexts of Dialogue	1	(18)
Rob Anderson
Leslie A. Baxter
Kenneth N. Cissna
PART I: EXPLORING THE TERRITORIES OF DIALOGUE	19	(86)
Relationships Among Philosophies of Dialogue	21	(18)
John Stewart
Karen E. Zediker
Laura Black
Taking a Communication Perspective on Dialogue	39	(18)
W. Barnett Pearce
Kimberly A. Pearce
The Ontological Workings of Dialogue and Acknowledgment	57	(18)
Michael J. Hyde
A Dialogic Ethic ``Between'' Buber and Levinas: A Responsive Ethical ``I''	75	(16)
Ronald C. Arnett
Dialogue, Creativity, and Change	91	(14)
Sheila McNamee
John Shotter
PART II: PERSONAL VOICES IN DIALOGUE	105	(86)
Dialogues of Relating	107	(18)
Leslie A. Baxter
Dialogue as the Search for Sustainable Organizational Co-Orientation	125	(16)
James R. Taylor
Critical Organizational Dialogue: Open Formation and the Demand of ``Otherness''	141	(18)
Stanley Deetz
Jennifer Simpson
Dialectical Tensions and Dialogic Moments as Pathways to Peak Experiences	159	(16)
H. L. Goodall Jr.
Peter M. Kellett
Double Binds as Structures in Dominance and of Feelings: Problematics of Dialogue	175	(16)
Leonard C. Hawes
PART III: PUBLIC VOICES IN DIALOGUE	191	(78)
Public Dialogue and Intellectual History: Hearing Multiple Voices	193	(16)
Kenneth N. Cissna
Rob Anderson
Race and the (Im)possibility of Dialogue	209	(16)
Mark Lawrence McPhail
When is Communication Intercultural? Bakhtin, Staged Performance, and Civic Dialogue	225	(18)
Mary S. Strine
Media Studies and the Dialogue of Democracy	243	(16)
John J. Pauly
Concluding Voices, Conversation Fragments, and a Temporary Synthesis	259	(10)
Rob Anderson
Leslie A. Baxter
Kenneth N. Cissna
References	269	(36)
Index	305