Century of Communication Studies

Pat J. Gehrke is Associate Professor of Speech Communication & Rhetoric at the University of South Carolina. His research interests include the history of communication education, rhetorical theory, communication ethicsm and public political discourse.William M. Keith is professor of Communication at the Univesrity of Wisconsin Milwaukee. His research interests include the history of public particpation in the United States, communication pedagogy and disciplinarity, and the rhetoric of science.

The contemporary communication discipline started as a splinter group sensitive to its external uniqueness and its internal differences. A Century of Communication Studies: The Unfinished Conversation is centrally concerned with how the discipline continues in that vein as a socially and ethically engaged intellectual enterprise. The studies assembled by editors Gehrke and Keith say a great deal about why the tensions of permanence and change, one and many are endemic to communication’s multi-faceted disciplinary dynamic. Gerard A. Hauser, University of Colorado Boulder

• Introduction. A Brief History of the National Communication AssociationPat J. Gehrke & William M. Keith Discovering Communication: Five Turns toward Discipline and AssociationJ. Michael Sproule Paying Lip Service to "Speech" in Disciplinary Naming, 1914-1954Gerry Philipsen The Silencing of Speech in the Late 20th CenturyJoshua Gunn & Frank E.X. Dance Epistemological Movements in the Field of Communication: An Analysis of Empirical and Rhetorical/Critical ScholarshipJames A. Anderson & Michael K. Middleton The Scholarly Communication of Communication Scholars: Centennial Trends in a Surging ConversationTimothy D. Stephen Sexing Communication: Hearing, Feeling, Remembering Sex/Gender and Sexuality in NCA Charles E. Morris III & Catherine Helen Palczewski Liberalism and its Discontents: Black Rhetoric and the Cultural Transformation of Rhetorical Studies in the 20th Century.Reynoldo Anderson, Marnel Niles Goins, & Sheena Howard A Critical History of the "Live" Body in Performance within the National Communication AssociationTracy Stephenson Shaffer, John M. Allison Jr., & Ronald J. Pelias Listening Research in the Communication DisciplineDavid Beard & Graham Bodie Conceptualizing Meaning in Communication StudiesBrian L. Ott & Mary Domenico Communicative Meeting: From Pangloss to Tenacious HopeRonald C. ArnettAfterword. What’s Next? William F. Eadie