Based on a series of public lecturers sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates and the National Communication Association, this book provides insight into concerns that conversation is changing in negative ways in the United States, both on an interpersonal level and on a national level.
Table of Content
Conversation in America – William F Eadie and Paul E Nelson
Changing Rules, Hidden Dimesions
Toward a National Conversation about Public Issues – W Barnett Pearce
The Declaration of Independence in the Rhetoric of American Politics – Stephen E Lucas
Some Distinctive Features of American Conversation – Donal Carbaugh
Language and Agency in the Transformation of American Identity – Molefi Kete Asante
New Communication Technology and the Changing Nature of Conversation – Everett M Rogers and William B Hart
Political Conversation – Roderick P Hart Jr
A Distortion
Changing Relationships, Changing Conversations – Julia T Wood
About the author
Hired by NDSU in the year 2000 to chair the Department of Communication and to launch a new doctoral program with my spouse, Dr. Judy C. Pearson, I am now head of the department. I teach undergraduate courses because that is my preference. I have professed and administered at the University of Missouri, Iowa State University, Ohio University, and Virginia Tech, before coming to NDSU. I was Dean of the College of Communication at Ohio University for fifteen years.
I have four degrees from the University of Minnesota with post-doc work both at Harvard and at Columbia University. I have written many college textbooks with my spouse, so many that I honestly don′t know the count. All I know is that we have been writing textbooks for three decades.
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