Books in the SAGE Series in Communication Research series

Consolidating alternative perspectives on communication and negotiation, this volume reviews the work of noted communication scholars and suggests directions for future research. It explores bargaining planning, framing and reframing, as well as relational communication with opponents, constituents and audiences.

What is the relationship between narrative, society and the forms of control that function in society? This analysis examines the role of narrative in the creation of various social realities. Each chapter provides both a theoretical framework and an examination of narratives in a range of communication contexts.

This book provides an authoritative state-of-the-art review of comparative approaches to communication research in the context of time and location. Perspectives unique to mass, interpersonal, political, cultural and organizational communication are explored, while descriptions of well-known empirical projects reveal how collaborations worked and how problems were addressed across different periods and cultures.Comparatively Speaking serves both as a student text and as a stimulus to further research in comparative communication research.

Working from the premises that information campaigns and social marketing efforts represent attempts at planned social change and that it is insufficient to examine inherently social phenomena in a social vacuum, the contributors to this volume provide a social context for examining these domains.