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Communication in Everyday Life Steve Duck

Communication in Everyday Life By Steve Duck

Communication in Everyday Life by Steve Duck

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Ideal for the digital age, this book provides up-to-date insight into the communication topics central to everyday life. Direct examples apply communication research to students' own lived experiences.

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Communication in Everyday Life: A Survey of Communication by Steve Duck

This text remains the only introductory communication book to explore fundamental concepts, theories and skills aimed at helping readers to apply material to their personal and professional lives - with a thematic integration of the relational perspective and a focus on demonstrating its direct relevance to their own everyday communication. Readers develop a strong foundation in communication concepts, theory and research, as well as practical communication skills such as listening, critical thinking, using technology to communicate, understanding nonverbal communication, creating persuasive strategies and managing group conflict.

Communication in Everyday Life Reviews

The easy-to-read, conversational style of the writing, which has carried over from the first edition...has been very well-received by our students. -- Martha Antolik

I still believe this is one of the best textbooks for an introduction to communication class!!!

-- Donna L. Halper

Clear, clean, interesting and practical - an enjoyable, intellectual read across every chapter. Duck and McMahan do a wonderful job of incorporating the fundamentals/core research, theories, and perspectives of the discipline with clarity, accessibility, and creative applications to the personal and social lives of our students. This text is more than an introduction to our discipline and its subsumed areas of specialization (i.e., health, org, family/interpersonal, media); it is a great starting point for framing one's thinking for a career of communication theory and research scholarship and practice. There is no other text that better addresses the everyday communication that creates and recreates our personal and relational identities across a variety of contexts.

-- Christine E. Rittenour * West Virginia University *

Duck and McMahan's text is an excellent book for the undergraduate introductory course surveying the discipline of communication studies. The writing style and level of presentation are appropriate for the undergraduate audience.

-- Natalia Rybas

Incredibly relevant easy to use starter text

-- Tracy Schorle
Communication in Everyday Life is an excellent textbook for first year students in communication disciplines. It provides students with an understanding of how communication processes work and play and how it is important to use communication skills depending of different context or scenarios. The book includes practical exercises and challenging questions suitable for the networked society we currently live in. -- Lina Gomez

This text provides depth and breadth of information for new COMM scholars. It provides relevant thought-pieces that could create valuable class discussion tied to course concepts.

-- Carla J. Harrell

I think it's a great text for an introductory course. It is accessible, easy to read, and complete.

-- Vicki L. Karns

About Steve Duck

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, 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 co-founded 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 hopes to sit on the Iron Throne and be famous. David T. McMahan has taught courses that span the discipline of communication, including numerous courses in interpersonal communication and personal relationships, media and technology, communication education, theory, and criticism. McMahan's research interests also engage multiple areas of the discipline with much of his research devoted to bridging the study of relationships, technology, and media. This work encompasses discussions of media and technology in everyday communication, the incorporation of catchphrases and media references in everyday communication, and the relational aspects of the Internet and digital media. His diverse research experiences also include studies on symbolic displays of masculinity and violence in rural America, media-based political transformations of the world's nation-states, the reporting of mass-murder suicide in The New York Times, and primetime animated series. In addition to authoring numerous books, his work has appeared in such journals as Review of Communication, Communication Education, and Communication Quarterly, as well as edited volumes. A tremendously-active member of the discipline, McMahan's endeavors include serving on a number of editorial review boards, serving as editor of the Iowa Journal of Communication, and serving as president of the Central States Communication Association. He has also received multiple awards for his work in the classroom and has been the recipient of a number of public service and academic distinctions, including being named a Centennial Scholar by the Eastern Communication Association. He hopes to someday win the singles championship at Wimbledon.

Table of Contents

Preface A Personal Note to Readers Acknowledgments About the Authors PART I. COMMUNICATION FOUNDATIONS Chapter 1 An Overview of Communication Everyday Communication and the Relational Perspective What Is Communication? Communication Is Symbolic Communication Requires Meaning Communication Is Cultural Communication Is Relational Communication Involves Frames Communication Is Both Presentational and Representational Communication Is a Transaction Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections Chapter 2 Histories and Contexts of Communication The Challenges of Writing History The Development of a Discipline The Emergence of Areas of Study Coming Together (Kind of) as Communication Studies Future of Communication and the Relational Perspective Methods of Studying Communication Social Scientific Approach Interpretivist Approach Critical Approach Improving Communication Studies Through the Relational Perspective Where Next? Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections PART II. COMMUNICATION SKILLS Chapter 3 Identities, Perceptions, and Communication Do People Have Core Selves? Identities and Perceptions Identities and Communication Transacting Identity and Other People Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections Chapter 4 Verbal Communication How Is Verbal Communication Symbolic? Verbal Communication Involves Meaning Verbal Communication Is Relational Verbal Communication Is Cultural Verbal Communication and Frames Verbal Communication Is Presentational Functions of Verbal Communication Relationships and Everyday Talk Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections Chapter 5 Nonverbal Communication Misconceptions About Nonverbal Communication What Is Nonverbal Communication? The Functions of Nonverbal Communication Types of Nonverbal Communication Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections Chapter 6 Culture and Communication How Can Culture Be Identified and Studied? Structure-Based Cultural Characteristics Transacting Culture Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections Chapter 7 Listening Why Is Listening Important? Active Listening Engaged and Relational Listening Critical Listening Recognizing and Overcoming Listening Obstacles Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections PART III. COMMUNICATION CONTEXTS Chapter 8 Personal Relationships What Are Personal Relationships? Benefits of Personal Relationships Initiating Relationships: The Relationship Filtering Model Transacting and Maintaining Personal Relationships Coming Apart Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections Chapter 9 Family Communication Families as . . . Change and Development in Family Processes Families Communicate! Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections Chapter 10 Groups and Leaders What Is a Group? Characteristics of Groups Group Development and Decision Making Group Decision Making Is About Relationships Leadership Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections Chapter 11 Communication in the Workplace Learning About the Workplace Going to Work: The Workplace as a Special Frame The Workplace as a Culture The Workplace as Relationships Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections Chapter 12 Health Communication Patient and Provider Relationships Social Networks and Health Media, Technology, and Health Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections Chapter 13 Technology and Media in Everyday Life Perceptions of Technology and Media The Relational Uses of Technology and Media Smartphones: Constructing Identities and Relationships Constructing Identities and Maintaining Relationships Online Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections Chapter 14 Public and Personal Influence Public Address and Relating to Audiences Sequential Persuasion Emotional Appeals Compliance Gaining Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections Chapter 15 Interviewing Preparing for an Interview Interviews Pre-Interview Responsibilities Beginning an Employment Interview Asking the Questions During an Employment Interview Answering the Questions During an Employment Interview Concluding an Employment Interview Post-Interview Responsibilities Focus Questions Revisited Key Concepts Questions to Ask Your Friends Media Connections Glossary References Index

Additional information

CIN150631516XVG
9781506315164
150631516X
Communication in Everyday Life: A Survey of Communication by Steve Duck
Steve Duck
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
20170414
392
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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