Description: Communication Theory and Application in Post-Socialist Contexts serves as a resource for anyone on the quest of diversifying and globalizing communication studies. It captures significant communication tendencies in several post-socialist countries and situates these tendencie...
Brief description: Igor E. Klyukanov is Professor of Communication Studies at Eastern Washington University. He has authored more than 100 articles, book chapters and books in communication theory, semiotics, translation studies, general linguistics, and intercultural communication. He served as an associate editor of The American Journal of Semiotics and is the founding editor of the Russian Journal of Communication. He is the author A Communication Universe: Manifestations of Meaning, Stagings of Significance (2010), winner of NCA Philosophy of Communication Division 2012 Best Book Award, and the translator and editor of Mikhail Epstein's book The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto (Bloomsbury, 2012).
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""These outstanding scholars skillfully illuminate the theory and application of communication scholarship in post-socialist contexts. The authors are well qualified for the task; each lives or has spent considerable time in Eastern Europe or former Soviet Union countries, actively teaching and researching communication. The well-researched and masterfully-written chapters are an invaluable resource for scholars, educators, and students who seek to understand the role of communication scholarship and instruction past and present in post-socialist contexts, cultures, and countries."" --Steven A. Beebe, Texas State University
"This volume represents a truly stimulating contribution to comparative communication studies. Illustrated with attractive cases, it brings much-needed insight into how different theories, concepts and methods, from framing and government communication to rhetorical analysis, are applied in post-socialist contexts. The exclusivity of this book is that it operates on three levels: it investigates how communication theories are applied in practice, how they are reinforced through scholarly research and how they are embedded in education. Most importantly, the book makes a strong case for better integration of post-socialist experiences in global communication research." --Marijana Grbesa, University of Zagreb