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Bruce E. Gronbeck’s 1998 Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture, “Paradigms of Speech Communication Studies: Looking Back to the Future” (Allyn and Bacon, Boston, MA, 1999) provides an alternative view of the discipline’s “territory.”
For further discussions of traditions in communication theory, see:
Robert T. Craig, « The Constitutive Metamodel: A 16-Year Review,” Communication Theory, Vol. 25, 2015, pp. 356-374.
Marc Howard Rich, “Spiritual Debate in Communication Theory: Craig's Metamodel Applied,” Journal Of Communication & Religion, Vol. 38, 2015, pp. 134-153.
Peter Simonson, Leonarda García-Jiménez, Johan Siebers, and Robert T. Craig, “Some Foundational Conceptions of Communication: Revising and Expanding the Traditions of Thought,” Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy Of Communication, Vol. 4, 2013, pp. 73-92.
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Bruce E. Gronbeck’s 1998 Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture, “Paradigms of Speech Communication Studies: Looking Back to the Future” (Allyn and Bacon, Boston, MA, 1999) provides an alternative view of the discipline’s “territory.”
For further discussions of traditions in communication theory, see:
Robert T. Craig, « The Constitutive Metamodel: A 16-Year Review,” Communication Theory, Vol. 25, 2015, pp. 356-374.
Marc Howard Rich, “Spiritual Debate in Communication Theory: Craig's Metamodel Applied,” Journal Of Communication & Religion, Vol. 38, 2015, pp. 134-153.
Peter Simonson, Leonarda García-Jiménez, Johan Siebers, and Robert T. Craig, “Some Foundational Conceptions of Communication: Revising and Expanding the Traditions of Thought,” Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy Of Communication, Vol. 4, 2013, pp. 73-92.
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