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Chapter  4Mapping the Territory

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.

Klaus Bruhn Jensen, “Practical Theories: Concepts, Conceptions and Conceptualizations of Communication.” Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 7 (2), 2016, pp. 143–56.

Malaika Mutere, “Towards an Africa-Centered and Pan-African Theory of Communication: Ubuntu and the Oral-Aesthetic Perspective.” Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory & Research 38 (2), 2012, 147–63.

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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Chapter  4Mapping the Territory

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.

Klaus Bruhn Jensen, “Practical Theories: Concepts, Conceptions and Conceptualizations of Communication.” Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 7 (2), 2016, pp. 143–56.

Malaika Mutere, “Towards an Africa-Centered and Pan-African Theory of Communication: Ubuntu and the Oral-Aesthetic Perspective.” Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory & Research 38 (2), 2012, 147–63.

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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