Human Communication Principles and Contexts

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Intended for an introductory communication concepts course, this book focuses on the principles of speech communication and its contexts. The award-winning authors, an academic and a professional writer, engagingly strive to link theory and research with fundamental concepts, and to enliven the exposition with intriguing case studies, useful interpersonal skills and stimulating examples. Tubbs and Moss show a true understanding and sensitivity to diversity, a reflection of their professional interests in gender and cultural issues. - An enhanced visual program includes illustrations of high and low-context cultures, postural clues, Knapp's staircase model and Duck's Stages. - The events of September 11, 2001 are examined in the Mass Communication and Intercultural Communication chapters. Chapter 13, Public Communication, features the full text and an analysis of President George Bush's wartime speech to the United States Congress. Chapter 15 discusses censorship during wartime. - Up-to-date discussions on the impacts of computer-mediated technologies and computer-mediated communication.