Communication competence /

Competence in communicating is vital to health, relationships, and all collective human endeavors. This volume brings together international scholars to examine the various facets of communication competence, including its history as an organizing concept, its essential components, and its applicati...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Hannawa, Annegret F.; Spitzberg, Brian H.
Published: De Gruyter,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2015]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Handbooks of communication science [hocs]; 22
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110317459
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Summary: Competence in communicating is vital to health, relationships, and all collective human endeavors. This volume brings together international scholars to examine the various facets of communication competence, including its history as an organizing concept, its essential components, and its application in interpersonal, group, institutional, and societal contexts.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xi,787pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
ISBN: 9783110317459(electronic bk.)
Index Number: P37
CLC: H0-05
Contents: 17. Functional forms of competence: Interviewing /
18. Instructional communication competence in higher education /
19. Managing uncertainty in clinical encounters /
20. Intercultural and intergroup communication competence: Toward an integrative perspective /
21. Social communicative competencies across the life span /
22. Assessing the state of assessment: Communication competence /
23. Outcomes and the criterion problem in communication competence research /
24. The transformation of everyday talk: The impact of communication technology on notions of communication competence /
25. Training and intervention /
26. The dark underbelly of communication competence: How something good can be bad? /
27. Miscommunication and error /
28. Verbal and physical aggression /
29. Problems, paradoxes, and prospects in the study of communication competence /
Biographical sketches --
Subject index --
Author index.
Frontmatter --
Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series --
Contents --
1. Welcome to the Handbook of Communication Competence /
2. Communication competence: Historical synopsis, definitions, applications, and looking to the future /
3. Theoretical approaches to communicative competence /
4. Epistemological approaches to communication competence /
5. Competence in speaking in interactions /
6. Nonverbal skills in emotional communication /
7. Computer-mediated communication competence /
8. Motivational factors and communication competence /
9. Competence knowledge /
10. The composition of competence: Communication skills /
11. Genetics and communication competence /
12. Culture and competence: Ethnicity and race /
13. Relational competence /
14. Communication competence in the management of conflict /
15. Developing negotiation competencies /
16. Communication competence in organizations and groups: Historic and emerging perspectives /