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Philipsen, Gerry
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1972

Office: CMU 351
Phone: 543-7995
E-Mail: gphil@u.washington.edu

Gerry Philipsen is Professor of Communication. His research interests are the ethnography of communication (descriptive, comparative study of culturally distinctive ways of speaking), small group discussion and decision making, and orality. Currently he is engaged in a study of the consequentiality of talk, that is, the social consequences of using the oral channel of communication as compared to other channels (e.g., graphic). At this time he supervises graduate students in Speech Communication who are interested in studying various aspects of cultural and intercultural communication. Several of these students are doing fieldwork in other countries. Professor Philipsen's teaching includes graduate supervision, graduate courses in communication theory and methods, and undergraduate courses in cultural and intercultural communication, communication and conflict, and introduction to Speech Communication.

Selected Publications

Philipsen, G. (1997). "Speech Codes Theory," G. Philipsen & T. Albrecht (Eds.), Developing Theories of Communication. State University of New York at Albany Press..

Philipsen,G. & Albrecht Terrance, (Eds.)(1997). Developing Theories of Communication. State University of New York at Albany Press..

Philipsen, G. (1995). "The Coordinated Management of Meaning: Pearce, Cronen and Associates," in D. Cushman and B. Kovacic, (Eds.), Watershed Theories in Communication. State University of New York at Albany Press.

Philipsen, G. (1993). "The Ethnography of Speaking." Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Aberdeen University Press. (Invited article). 24 pp.

Philipsen, G. (1993). "Ritual as a Heuristic Device in Studies of Organizational Discourse," Communication Yearbook, 16, 104-111.

Philipsen, G. (1992). Speaking Culturally: Explorations in Social Communication. State University of New York at Albany Press.

Philipsen, G. (1992). "Recent Books in Qualitative Research Methodology." Communication Education, 41, 240-245.

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