Communication Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. The Rhetoric of Food

   Discourse, Materiality, and Power

   Edited by Joshua Frye, Michael Bruner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy. The essays visit a rich variety of dominant...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Human Rights Rhetoric

   Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing

   Edited by Arabella Lyon, Lester C Olson

   Series: Rhetoric Society Quarterly

   Rhetoric scholars have articulated diverse approaches to both civil and human rights as political, ethical, and academic discourses. “Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing” initiates important interdisciplinary conversations within human rights rhetoric concerning the construction of rights...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. Language and Journalism

   Edited by John Richardson

   Series: Journalism Studies

   This book is an indispensable "cutting edge" book for students and researchers of journalism studies seeking a text that illustrates and applies a range of linguistic and discourse-analytic approaches to the analysis of journalism. While the form, function and politics of the language of journalism...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
4. Communication and Social Cognition

   Theories and Methods

   Edited by David R. Roskos-Ewoldsen, Jennifer L. Monahan

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Communication and Social Cognition represents the explosion of work in the field of social cognition over the past 25 years. Expanding the contribution made by Social Cognition and Communication, published in 1982, this scholarly collection updates the study of communication from a social cognitive...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Encoding the Olympics

   The Beijing Olympic Games and the Communication Impact Worldwide

   Edited by Luo Qing, Giuseppe Richeri

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Commissioned by the IOC, this pioneering comparative study – the...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Handbook of Intergroup Communication

   Edited by Howard Giles

   Series: ICA Handbook Series

   The Handbook of Intergroup Communication brings together research, theory and application on traditional as well as innovative intergroup situations, exploring the communication aspect of these groups. The volume is organzied into four domains – cross-disciplinary approaches to intergroup study;...

   Published May 3rd 2012 by Routledge
7. TV Cops

   The Contemporary American Television Police Drama

   By Jonathan Nichols-Pethick

   The police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick argues that, perhaps more than any other genre, the police series in all its manifestations—from Hill Street Blues to Miami Vice to The Wire—embodies the full...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
8. Personal Relationships

   The Effect on Employee Attitudes, Behavior, and Well-being

   Edited by Lillian Turner de Tormes Eby, Tammy D. Allen

   Series: SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series

   We know that positive, fulfilling and satisfying relationships are strong predictors of life satisfaction, psychological health, and physical well-being. This edited volume uses research and theory on the need to belong as a foundation to explore various types of relationships, with an emphasis on...

   Published April 23rd 2012 by Routledge Academic
9. Mobile Communication and Greater China

   Edited by Rodney Wai-chi Chu, Leopoldina Fortunati, Pui-Lam Law, Shanhua Yang

   Series: Routledge Research on Social Work, Social Policy and Social Development in Greater China

   This edited volume is the first book-length study focusing entirely on mobile phone use in China. Drawing on examples from a wide range of contemporary situations in China and beyond, the contributors argue that the mobile phone is in fact an important means by which one can understand a rapidly...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Culture and Public Relations

    Links and Implications

    Edited by Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, Dejan Vercic

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    Culture and Public Relations explores the impact of culture – societal and organizational – through the global lens of public relations. Structuring the volume around three themes -- culture as an environment for public relations; the culture of PR globally; and the impact of PR on culture -- the...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge