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- Title
Toward Understanding the (Lack of?) Significance of Dialogue to the Practice of Public Relations.
- Authors
Lane, Anne
- Abstract
The public relations literature has tended to present dialogue as an idealised concept, with a focus on how it should, could, or ought to be carried out in public relations practice. There is little in extant literature that considers the significance of dialogue to the actual practice of public relations. This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study of public relations practitioners' day-to-day work. It concludes that dialogue does not - and arguably, cannot - occur in public relations practice and instead articulates an empirically-based practitioner perspective on two-way communication, which displays pragmatic characteristics that significantly distinguish it from dialogue.
- Subjects
PUBLIC relations research; PUBLIC relations personnel; INTERPERSONAL communication; PRAGMATISM; COMMUNICATIONS research
- Publication
Asia Pacific Public Relations Journal, 2014, Vol 15, Issue 1, p123
- ISSN
1440-4389
- Publication type
Article