January 27-29: Barnlund, Dean C. "Toward a Meaning-Centered Philosophy of Communication." Journal of Communication 12.4 (1962): 197-211. (Summary) (Slides)
February 1-3: Watzlawick, Paul, Janet Helmick Beavin, and Don D. Jackson. Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies, and Paradoxes, 48-54. New York: Norton, 1967. (Summary) (Slides)
February 15: Miller, Gerald R. "On Defining Communication: Another Stab." Journal of Communication 16.2 (1966): 88-98. (Summary) (Slides)
February 17-19: Searle, John R. Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, 22-53. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. (Summary) (Slides)
February 22-24: Morris, Charles W. Foundations of the Theory of Signs, 1-13, 29-34. International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, I: 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938. (Summary) (Slides)
February 26: Weaver, Warren. "The Mathematics of Communication." Scientific American 181 (July 1949): 11-15. (Summary) (Slides)
March 3: Grice, H. Paul. "Logic and Conversation." In Syntax and Semantics, vol. 3, ed. Peter Cole and Jerry Morgan, 41-58. New York: Academic Press, 1975. (Summary) (Slides)
March 5-8: Petty, Richard E., and John T. Cacioppo, "A General Framework for Understanding Attitude Change Processes." In Attitudes and Persuasion: Classic and Contemporary Approaches, 255-269. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. (Summary) (Slides)
March 12 & 22: Delia, Jesse G.; O'Keefe, Barbara; O'Keefe, Daniel J. "The Constructivist Approach to Communication." In Human Communication Theory, ed. Frank E. X. Dance, 147-191. New York: Harper and Row, 1982. (Summary) (Slides)
March 24: Habermas, Jürgen. "Towards a Theory of Communicative Competence." Inquiry 13.4 (1970): 360-375. (Summary) (Slides)
March 26-29: Pearce, W. Barnett. "Coordinated Management of Meaning: A Rules-Based Theory of Interpersonal Communication." In Explorations in Interpersonal Communication, ed. Gerald R. Miller, 17-35. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1976. (Summary) (Slides)
March 31-April 2: Hinsz, Verlin B., R. Scott Tindale, and David A. Vollrath. "The Emerging Conceptualization of Groups as Information Processors." Psychological Bulletin 121.1 (1997): 43-64. (Summary) (Slides)
April 5-7: Daft, Richard L., and Karl E. Weick. “Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems.” Academy of Management Review 9.2 (1984): 284-295. (Summary) (Slides)
April 9-12: Philipsen, Gerry. “Cultural Communication.” In Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication, ed. William B. Gudykunst, 35-52. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003. (Summary) (Slides)
Traditional Rhetoric
April 16-19: Bryant, Donald C. "Rhetoric: Its Function and Scope." Quarterly Journal of Speech 39.4 (1953): 401-424. (Summary) (Slides)
April 23: Mohrmann, Gerald P., and Michael C. Leff. "Lincoln at Cooper Union: A Rationale for Neo-Classical Criticism." Quarterly Journal of Speech 60.4 (1974): 459-468. (Summary) (Slides)
April 26: Leff, Michael C., and Gerald P. Mohrmann, "Lincoln at Cooper Union: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Text." Quarterly Journal of Speech 60.3 (1974): 346-358. (Summary) (Slides)
April 28: Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs. "Style and Content in the Rhetoric of Early Afro-American Feminists." Quarterly Journal of Speech 72.4 (1986): 434-445. (Summary) (Slides)
New Rhetoric
April 30-May 3: Gronbeck, Bruce E. "The Functions and Scope of Rhetoric Rediviva." Advances in the History of Rhetoric 7 (2004): 151-177. (Summary) (Slides)
May 5: Charland, Maurice. "Constitutive Rhetoric: The Case of the Peuple Quebecois." Quarterly Journal of Speech 73.2 (1987): 133-150. (Summary) (Slides)
May 7: Foss, Karen A., and Kathy L. Domenici. "Haunting Argentina: Synecdoche in the Protests of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo." Quarterly Journal of Speech 87.3 (2001): 237-258. (Summary) (Slides)