This new "unbound" product provides all the content, learning activities, and pedagogy for the basic communication course in an exciting and active... format-online! Taking advantage of an online format, this text is rich with interactive resources-video, Web activities, study quizzes, review-oriented crossword puzzles, an electronic journal, and more-that enrich and enhance students' learning. Students begin by reading the basic text content either online or from the printed text, and then use the additional online features to reinforce and apply concepts. Providing the same type of content that instructors would expect to see in a traditional text for this course, Communication Unbound emphasizes the "relational community" in three main types of relationships: interpersonal, professional, small group, and speaker-audience. While its primary focus is the application of communication principles to face-to-face interactions, Communication Unbound also discusses how people interact through electronic channels in a way that only this type of product can. This product is equally appropriate for use in a traditional, classroom-format basic communication class or in a distance learning environment.

In this highly readable and well-arranged compilation-including his much-celebrated "The Practice of Reading Good Books" and award-winning "Playing with... Bateson"-Corey Anton brings together some of his most accessible and well-received essays. The collection, in addition to advancing and integrating the fields of media ecology and general semantics, will be of great interest to people who are concerned over the changing role of reading and literacy in contemporary life. A stimulating and provocative book having wide relevance to scholars and students in the areas of semiotics, rhetorical theory, orality/literacy studies, philosophy of communication, pedagogical theory, and communication theory, Communication Uncovered offers countless insights and broad-based orientations regarding the nature of language, linguistic and communicative habits, communication technologies, and symbolic practices more generally. This is a "must have" resource for anyone interested in multidisciplinary communication theory.

Communication Works 11e applies a new critical thinking framework to its core content, now in a more user-friendly 15-chapter organization. We have... retained and revised the text’s practical approach to communication, with a focus on the ways in which diversity, technology, social media, and ethical concerns both enrich and complicate our world. Students will learn what role communication plays in their lives today, in the classroom, and tomorrow, in the working world. And with Connect Communication, instructors and students have a print and digital solution to meet the needs of their course.

Written for the introductory communication course, Communication Works presents communication principles, interpersonal communication, group... communication, and public speaking in an engaging and highly interactive manner. Its use of questions in the narrative, margins, boxes, and captions support instructors who prefer to lead a discussion-oriented and engaging course. Recognizing the challenges that our world presents for the communication students of the 21st century, the new edition includes enhanced ESL coverage and coverage of ethical, cultural, and technological issues, while also reemphasizing the focus on skill-building to promote the development of personal and professional relationships in real world and virtual settings.

Relevant for children and adults at all stages of communication development, this work should be useful for speech therapists, educators, and... rehabilitation professionals who work with Augmentative and Alternative Communication users. It presents research and theory and guides readers through four skill areas important to the development of communicative competence. The skill areas consist of linguistic competence, operational competence, social competence, and strategic competence. Linguistic competence teaches about issues such as the impact of AAC on an individual's natural speech production, the development and use of picture-based communication systems, and the relationship between spoken language and the "language" of AAC systems. Operational competence considers issues related to technical operation of AAC systems, and social competence explores factors such as the effect of developmental disabilities on social communication. Strategic competence examines operational, linguistic, and social constraints faced by AAC users.

This is the fourth edition of a comprehensive classroom text successfully used for over a quarter of a century to train and orient professional graduate... students of speech pathology and audiology to manage and conduct clinical research in the area of communicative disorders related to cleft lip and palate and related craniofacial disorders. It includes 23 integrated chapters developed by 25 contributing authors, 14 of whom are new contributors to this edition. The book reviews more than 40 years of important contributions to the prevention and management of related language, speech, and hearing disorders common up to publication of the first edition of this text. The updated book covers the "state-of-the-art-and-science" of that body of knowledge developed through long-refined clinical research emphasizing early intervention, scientific differential diagnosis of problems, and the team approach. New topics developed in this edition include: The altered anatomy of muscle insertions in clefting, velolingual and velolaryngeal coarticulation coordination in speech production, and muscle fatigue and compensatory muscle functions in cleft palate speech; Listing and description of genetic and chromosomal bases of syndromes of craniofacial disorders; The theory of stigmatization as it relates to understanding and helping individuals with clefts and craniofacial anomalies; The basic current techniques and preferred timing of primary surgical reconstruction of palatal clefts; and much more.

Communicative Language Teaching in Action: Putting Principles to Work is designed as a basic text that intends to demonstrate principles and practices... of communicative language teaching and task-based instruction. Its primary purpose is to serve as a guide for second and foreign language teachers in training or for those who have embarked on a new career as language teachers.

Bringing together prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines, Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions: Cultural Perspectives on... the Regulation of Discourse and Organizations offers readers an engaging set of essays on the complicated relationship between discourse and the many institutions within which people act. Each author brings a unique theoretical perspective to conceptualizing how discourse is regulated and how it regulates when human activity is organized for such purposes as work or belonging to a profession. Together, the contributors to this collection offer a provocatively complex picture of what regulation means and the means of regulation. The workplaces or professional sites used as illustrations in these studies are diverse, covering such organizations as an Internet start-up company, an international energy company, an urban hospital, a university, and a telecommunications corporation. The perspectives the contributors bring to their work are likewise diverse, covering a range of prominent thinkers, including Bourdieu, Giddens, Latour, Spivak, Bakhtin, and Burke. In total, the perspectives offered in this volume are invaluable for researchers who want to gain greater insight into routine or regularized discourse and its connections to the many institutions within which people act. Following a general introduction to the idea of regulation and communicative practices, the book is divided into three sections. The first focuses on offering readers an understanding of regulative processes, practices, and effects. The essays in the second section focus on the possibilities for action, addressing the issues of agency, power, and empowerment. The collection concludes with chapters that outline critical research perspectives for examining regulation and communicative practices.

Communicative Sexualities: A Communicology of Sexual Experience, by Jacqueline M. Martinez, provides an argument for and illustration of how to pursue... the direct study of students' lived-experiences of sexuality in a classroom or academic setting. It illustrates how communicology, and its methodological practice of semiotic phenomenology, allows for a sustained and rigorous study of the meaningfulness of sexual experience as it manifests in the immediate, concrete, and embodied realities in the lives of those taking up such a study. Examples from actual classroom experience allows for a detailed consideration of the applied research methodology, as well as the ethical issues involved in making students' experience of sexuality the main subject of the course. Martinez's text features detailed discussions of how to study the lived-experience of sexuality as the subject matter of research. It considers the steps necessary in suspending presuppositions regarding sexuality and gender, particularly those associated with the heterosexual-homosexual binary. Sexuality is understood as inherently good, yet also capable of becoming a means of perpetuating human isolation and degradation as much as an experience of tremendously shared human intimacy and mutual recognition.As an introductory text, Jacqueline M. Martinez's Communicative Sexualities: A Communicology of Sexual Experience is an excellent primer for the advanced study of communicology and semiotic phenomenology as related to the lived-experiences of sexuality and gender.