1st Edition

The Art of Listening

Edited By R. S. White Copyright 1986
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1986. This collection of essays is unified by one leading idea: that the active and creative abilities of listeners and readers deserve as much attention as the skills of speakers and writers. It is shown that hearers, far from being passive recipients in the communicative process, are in fact active in selecting, interpreting and creating from the disparate signals they... Read more

Introduction Graham McGregor and R.S. White 1. Hearers’ Intentions John Pellowe 2. Comprehension and Context: Successful Communication and Communicative Breakdown Lesley Milroy 3. Resolving Misunderstandings Claire Humpreys-Jones 4. Listening Outside the Participation Framework Graham McGregor 5. Heading You in My Own Voice: Woman as Listener and Reader Linda Anderson 6. Analysing the Reader: A Critical Survey of Recent Psychoanalytical Theories of Reading Norbert H. Platz 7. The Nature of Listening in Reading Poetry: A Conversation R. A. Lumsden and John Pellowe 8. Shakespeare and the Listener R. S. White 9. Listening to Her Self: Women’s Diaries Rebecca Hiscock 10. Listening to a Silent Presence: Notes on Collaborating Over a Translation Desmond Graham and Trude Schwab 11. Tom Stoppard and the Politics of Listening Neil Sammells 12. The Dogma of Authenticity in the Experience of Popular Music Michael Pickering

Biography

Professor R. S. White teaches at the The University of Western Australia.