Books in the Language as Social Action series

Integrating and synthesizing research across disciplines, this book offers communication scholars and students a theoretical framework that will transform the way they see understanding, communication, and social connection.

With more than 40% of people eventually facing a cancer diagnosis, Conversing with Cancer is a much-needed addition to understanding and improving cancer care through strong communication among providers, patients, and caregivers.

Informed by a wide variety of academic disciplines and offering a unique interpersonal communication approach to the study of jealousy, The Communication of Jealousy examines, integrates, and informs research on jealousy experience and expression.

This book draws on case studies exploring argumentation through speaking and silence over the use of Native American land; asynchronous communication active in the cultural frames of a CBS 60 Minutes episode; identity and communication at a Jewish havurah; optimal forms of communicative conduct in Britain; and the changes in education communication of a North American college.

In this book, the authors offer a state of the art review of applied social-psychological research on gender at work, shedding light on all the different ways that work-related perceptions, attributions, outcomes, and the like differ for women and men.

Presents a comprehensive, evidence-based review of the make-or-break factors that determine the efficacy of criticism, praise, and advice. This book can appeal to scholars and practitioners as a comprehensive review of the state of play in this field. It is also appropriate for use as a text for students in a range of disciplines.

Advances in Intergroup Communication is a timely contribution to the field. It reflects developments in older, more established intergroup settings (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, organizations) whilst introducing newer studies such as the military and political parties.

Provides a timely and comprehensive review of work at the intersection of intergroup relations and communication. This book is divided into sections addressing specific groups, intergroup communication processes, and core contexts in which intergroup communication occurs.

Provides a timely and comprehensive review of work at the intersection of intergroup relations and communication. This book is divided into sections addressing specific groups, intergroup communication processes, and core contexts in which intergroup communication occurs.

Advances in Intergroup Communication is a timely contribution to the field. It reflects developments in older, more established intergroup settings (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, organizations) whilst introducing newer studies such as the military and political parties.

The third in a trilogy on communication and ethnopolitical conflict, this book focuses on multicultural groups significantly divided by politics and religion. This book examines the nature of group differences as well as solutions-based conflict resolution that is embedded in theories of communication and democracy.

This volume represents a unique contribution to the area of language attitudes research with its focus on how languages, dialects and accents induce us to form social judgments about people who use these forms.

Building on past research that includes prosocial-antisocial communication, positive psychology, as well as complementing the dark side of interpersonal communication, this volume brings together veteran interpersonal communication scholars to examine the bright, positive sides of communication in human relations.

Deliberative Communication and Ethnopolitical Conflict

Sets out to explore how hate comes alive in language and actions by examining the nature and persuasive functions of hate in American society. This book examines the strategic manipulation of hatred in our everyday lives by politicians, political operatives, and media personalities.

This volume represents a unique contribution to the area of language attitudes research with its focus on how languages, dialects and accents induce us to form social judgments about people who use these forms.

Presents a comprehensive, evidence-based review of the make-or-break factors that determine the efficacy of criticism, praise, and advice. This book can appeal to scholars and practitioners as a comprehensive review of the state of play in this field. It is also appropriate for use as a text for students in a range of disciplines.

Offering a historical and empirical account, this book provides an overview of the socio-educational model of second language acquisition. It provides graduate students and researchers with coverage of this research-oriented approach.

Building on past research that includes prosocial-antisocial communication, positive psychology, as well as complementing the dark side of interpersonal communication, this volume brings together veteran interpersonal communication scholars to examine the bright, positive sides of communication in human relations.