Books written by Karen A. Foss

Theories of Human Communication: Tenth Edition

Bonnie Dow Jane Blankenship and Deborah Robson examined women's public-policy discourse between 1991 and 1994 to determine whether a feminine style could be said to exist in contemporary political discourse. They concluded that it does ...
Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric: 30th Anniversary Edition

(With Ruth C. Metcalf and Christine Gibson.) The Foundations ofAesthetics. London, UK: George Allen and Unwin, 1922. (With C. K. Ogden and James Wood.) French Self-Taught Through Pictures. New York: Pocket, 1950.
Theories of Human Communication: Twelfth Edition

... “Coca-Colonization and Hybridization of Diets among the Tz'utujil Maya,” Ecology of Food and Nutrition 50 (2011): 297–318; Karen Tranberg Hansen, “Colonialism and Imperialism,” (Lovetoknow Corp, n.d.), Date accessed: Dec.
Theories of Human Communication: Eleventh Edition

Donal Carbaugh's studies of various cultures—from the Blackfeet in Montana to the television program Donahue—exemplify interpretive work. Using the theory of speech codes (chapter 4), which seeks to understand the ...
Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World, Fourth Edition

I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas.
Color Up: to Create the Life You Want to Live

16 Mi se pottery: This discussion of a special green glaze is described by Victoria Finlay in Color: A Natural History of the Palette (New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002), 245-56. This book offers delightful histories of ...
Gender Stories: Negotiating Identity in a Binary World

what they are wearing with taglines like "Perfect for dusting the red carpet” or "The love child of Barney and Big Bird.” The magazine explicitly undermines women's professional success through its focus on weight and clothing.
Advances in the History of Rhetoric

Advances in the History of Rhetoric
Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World, Third Edition

Kenneth Burke discusses the way identification works as a rhetorical strategy to bring people together. For Burke, identification with another—whether through “speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea,”8—is a way of ...
Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric

The anniversary edition marks thirty years of offering an indispensable review and analysis of thinkers who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary rhetorical theory: I.A. Richards, Ernesto Grassi, Chaïm Perelman and Lucie ...
Encyclopedia of Communication Theory

Edited by the co-authors of the best-selling textbook on communication theory and drawing on the expertise of an advisory board of 10 international scholars and nearly 200 contributors from 10 countries, this work finally provides such a ...
Theories of Human Communication

The first chapter establishes the foundations of communication theory. The next chapter reviews four frameworks for organizing the theories and their contributions to the nature of inquiry.
Theories of Human Communication

New for the ninth edition are special boxed sections containing quotations from theorists explaining what they would like students to know about their work. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Littlejohn/Foss' Theories of Human Communication, 9th Ed

New for the ninth edition are special boxed sections containing quotations from theorists explaining what they would like students to know about their work. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World

The fourth edition of Inviting Transformation continues to offer an innovative approach to presentational speaking at a very reasonable price.
Feminism in Practice: Communication Strategies for Making Change

The opening chapters provide a comprehensive understanding of the diversity and complexity of feminist movement.The book is organized around five primary objectives that animate contemporary change efforts-proclaiming identity, naming a ...
Gender Stories: Negotiating Identity in a Binary World

At the heart of the book is a description of the process of becoming a gendered person through crafting and performing gender stories.
Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World

This book discusses presentational speaking in diverse contexts & settings. The primary purpose of such speaking is to invite growth & change for both speaker & audience.
Women Speak: The Eloquence of Women's Lives

This text's purpose is to help give voice to women's eloquence. Thirty examples of various forms of women's communication are offered that reveal the substance & style of women's communication.
Color Up: to Create the Life You Want to Live

Thanks also to Lehla Eldridge, Sonja K. Foss, Nancy Skinner Giddens, Cynthia Greene, Kathy Isaacson, Stephen W. Littlejohn, Melissa Macpherson, Beverly Salas, Glen Salas, David Weiss, and Monica Yancey for reading various drafts of ...