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- Title
Good Communication Revisited: Evaluative Rhetorics and a Disciplinary Commonplace.
- Authors
Graves, Clint G.
- Abstract
Inquiry on "good communication" is diverse but disconnected. The purpose of this essay is to construct a pluralistic commonplace that structures how scholars and practitioners understand the concept of good communication. Drawing on interpersonal, rhetorical, and technical approaches, I argue that good communication is a judgment resulting from a social cognitive interaction between message features and sense making processes. Communication is deemed "good" in accordance with discursively contingent logics (i.e., rhetorics) of evaluation. The commonplace developed here enables systematic efforts to study or produce good communication by facilitating reflection on how "goodness" is constituted within any judgment.
- Subjects
RHETORIC; INTERPERSONAL communication; SOCIAL interaction; FACILITATED communication; COMMUNICATIVE competence; COMMUNICATION of technical information
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2021, Vol 85, Issue 4, p527
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570314.2021.1887509