Bøker av Donald G. Ellis

Introduces and explains the dynamics of conflict and resolution particularly in ethnic, ethnopolitical, and intercultural or intergroup conflicts. This book provides an overview of the elements of group conflict, ethnicity, identity, and diasporas. It explores key ways of using communication principles to resolve conflict.

Covering the field of language and communication, this text includes topics such as: the nature of language; modern linguistics; language and cognition; meaning; pragmatics and discourse; discourse and global organization; and sociolinguistics and communication.

The third in a trilogy on communication and ethnopolitical conflict, this book focuses on multicultural groups significantly divided by politics and religion. This book examines the nature of group differences as well as solutions-based conflict resolution that is embedded in theories of communication and democracy.

Deliberative Communication and Ethnopolitical Conflict

Addresses the connections between communication patterns & more general social conditions, with analysis of types of communication, their meanings, & associations with ethnicity & class. For scholars in comm theory, discourse, & social issues.

This text discusses the emphasis on meaning, the importance of a mediated culture, and the links between micro communication activities and macro social categories. It explores principles of medium theory and documents the impact of media on psychological and sociological phenomena.