Seminal books for studying communication

Recommended Books
for Studying Communication

Most of the books listed below were suggested by Dawn Braithwaite, University of Nebraska, from
responses to her request on CRTNET, Sept. 2000, to identify such readings. See further communication
and performance studies textbooks used at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor,
http://www.dianehoward.com/textbooks.htm.

Aristotle. (1686). Rhetorica. London: by T. B. for Randal Taylor.

Asante, M. K (1987). The Afrocentric idea. Phildadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Asante, M. K. (1988). Afrocentricity. Trenton, NJ: Afica World Press, INC.

Bakhtin, M. (1981). The dialogic imagination. (C. Emerson & M. Holquist Translation). Austin, TX:
University of Texas Press.

Baxter, L., & Montgomery, B. (1996). Relating: Dialogues and dialectics. New York: Guilford Press.

Benson, T. W. (1985). Speech communication in the 20th century. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP.

Berger, P. L., & Luckmann, T. (1966). The social construction of reality. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

Berlo. (1960). The process of communication. New York: Holt, Rinhart, & Winston.

Billig, M. (1987). Arguing and thinking. New York: Cambridge UP.

Bitzer & Black. (Eds.). (1971). The prospect of rhetoric. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Black, E. (1965). Rhetorical criticism. New York: Macmillan.

Buber, M. (1965). Between man and man. (R. G. Smith Translation). New York: Macmillan.

Burke, K. (1961). The rhetoric of religion. Boston: Beacon Press.

Burke, K. (1968). Counterstatement. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Burke. K. (1969). A grammar of motives. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Burke, K. (1969). Rhetoric of motives. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Campbell, G. (1988). The philosophy o rhetoric in 18th century. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP.

Campbell, K. (1989). Man cannot speak for her. New York: Greenwood Press.

Campbell, K., & Jamieson, K. (Ed.). (1978). Form and genre. Falls Church, VA: Speech Communication Association.

Cheney, G. (1999). Values at work. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press.

Cialdini, R. (1988). Influence: Science and practice (2nd ed.). Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman.

Cialdini, R. (1993). Influence: The psychology of persuasion. (Rev. ed.). New York: Morrow.

Cicero. (1840). De oratore. (W. Guthrie Translation). Oxford: H. Slatter.

Cicero. (1966). Brutus (A. E. Douglas Translation). Oxford: Clarendon Publishing.

Clifford, J. (1988). The predicament of culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP.

Dance, F. E. X. (1982). Human communication theory: Comparative essays. New York: Harper & Row.

Duncan, H. D. (1963). Communication and social order. New York: Bedminster Press.

Ekman, P., & Friesen, W. (1975). Unmasking the face. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Fisher, B. A. (1978). Perspectives on human communication. New York: Macmillan.

Fisher, W. (1987). Human communication as narration. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.

Foss, Foss, & Griffin. (1999). Feminist rhetorical theories. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.

Foss, Foss, & Trapp. (1991). Contemporary perspectives on rhetoric (2nd ed.).

Geertz, C. (1973). The interpretation of cultures. New York: Basic Books.

Gergen, K. (1991). The saturated self. New York: Basic Books.

Gergen, K. (1994). Realities and relationships. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP.

Gergen, K. (1999). Invitation to social construction. London: Sage.

Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different voice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP.

Goffman, E. (1959). Presentation of self in everyday life. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

Griffin, E. (2000). A First Look at Communication Theory. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Grossberg. (1997). Bringing it all back home: Essays on cultural studies. Durham, NC: Duke UP.

Hall. (1959). The silent language. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications.

Harper, N. (1979). Human communication theory: The history of a paradigm. Rochelle, NJ: Hayden Book Company.

Hawes, L. (1975). Pragmatics of analoguing: Theory and model construction in communication. Reading, MA: Addison- Wesley Publishing Company.

Heidegger, M. (1971). On the way to language. (P. D. Hertz Translation). New York: Harper & Row.

Heider, F. (1967). The psychology of interpersonal relations. New York: Wiley.

Homan, G. (1974). Social behavior: It's elementary forms. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.

Hooks, B. (1990). Yearning: Race, gender and cultural politics. Boston: South End Press.

Howard, D. (2002). Autobiographical Writing and Performing: An Introductory Guide to Process and
Research in Speech Performance. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Howard, D. (2002). Enhanced by Technology, Not Diminished: A Practical Guide to Distance
Communication. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Kelley, et. al. (1983). Close relationships. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.

Knapp, M. L., & Miller, G. R. (1994). Handbook of interpersonal communication (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage.

Kuhn, T. (1996). The structure of scientific revolutions (3rd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Laing, Phillipson, & Lee. (1966). Interpersonal perception: A theory and a method of research.

Langer, S. (1951). Philosophy in a new key (3rd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP.

Littlejohn, S. (1996). Theories of human communication (5th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Longinus. (1945). On the sublime (B. Einarson Translation). Chicago: Parkard.

Lucaites, et. al. (1999). Contemporary rhetorical theory: A reader. New York: Guilford Press.

McCluhan, M., & Fiori, Q. (1967). The medium is the massage. New York: Bantam Books.

Mead, G. H. (1934). Mind, self, and society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Merchant, C. (1980). The death of nature. San Francisco: Harper & Row.

Miller, G. R., & Steinberg, M. (1975). Between people. Chicago: Science Research Associates.

Ogden, C. K., & Richards, I. A. (1923). Meaning of meaning. New York: Harcourt & Brace.

Pearce, W. B. (1989). Communication and the human condition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP.

Peters, J. D. (1999). Speaking into the air: A history of the idea of communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Plato. (1998). Gorgias and Phaedrus (J. H. Nichols, Jr. Translation). Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP.

Richard, I. A. (1936). The philosophy of rhetoric. New York: Oxford UP.

Rogers, C. (1980). A way of being. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Rogers, E. M. (1995). Diffusion of innovation (4th ed.). New York: Free Press.

Rosaldo, R. (1993). Culture and truth. Boston: Beacon Press.

Sennett, R. (1977). Fall of public man. New York: Knopf.

Shimanoff, S. (1980). Communication rules. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Skinner, B. F. (1974). About behaviorism. New York: Knopf.

Spender, D. (1980). Man made language. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Sproule, M. (1997). Propoganda and democracy. Cambridge UP.

Wallace, K. (Ed.). (1954). History of speech education in America. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Watzlawick, P. (1978). The language of change. New York: Basic Books.

Watzlawick, P., Beavin, J. H., & Jackson, D. D. (1967). Pragmatics of human communication: A study of interactional patterns, pathologies, and paradoxes. New York: W. W. Norton.

Weiks, K. E. (1979). The social psychology of organizing (2nd ed.). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesely Publishing Company.

Wittgenstein, L. (1997). Philosophical investigations (G. E. M. Anscomb Translation).