Using methods of conversation/discourse analysis, Eva M. McMahan describes the collaborative processes that enable interviewers and narrators to interact successfully in the interview context.

As James A. Mackin, Jr., shows, both modernism and postmodernism have undermined the traditional foundations for ethics. Using an ecological model, however, Community over Chaos develops a common ground for ethical judgments about communication, thus countering the current theoretical climate of pessimistic cynicism toward the very possibility of ethics.

A vital contribution to legal theory and media and civic discourse

Close readings of Burke's public discourse and political writings

The Cultural Prison brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment of American offenders is represented and shaped in the mass media through public arguments.

Illustrates the interweaving of rhetorical and historical forces in shaping public policy

This collection argues that rhetorical history, both as a methodology
and as a perspective, offers insights that are central to the study of
communication and unavailable through other approaches.