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Stories We Tell: Fragmentation and Convergence in Communication Disciplinary History

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Review of Communication, 11 (3): 161--176 (July 2011)
DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2011.578257

Abstract

The disciplinary status of communication is hindered by the lack of a unified history. While there is a mostly agreed-on history of the development of various types of communication theory, that history is confounded by the histories of the two areas of study–speech and journalism–and eventually became prominent in communication research. This article recounts the speech story, the journalism story, and the communication story and offers some direction for a history that accounts for communication's disciplinary status while still recognizing the heritage of speech and journalism.

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