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Gerry PhilipsenPhilipsen, Gerry

http://gerryphilipsen.com
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1972

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

Communication 484 syllabus Autumn 2008

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.

Recent Publications

Single author except as indicated otherwise.

Publication scheduled for 2008:

“Studying the Ethnography of Communication at Northwestern University, 1968-1972,” to appear in Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Editor, A Social History of Research on Language and Social Interaction.

“Researching culture in contexts of social interaction: An ethnographic approach, a network of scholars, illustrative moves,” To appear in Donal Carbaugh and Patrice Buzzanell, Editors, Distinctive Qualities of Communication Research. Taylor & Francis Publishers.

2007

“Speech Codes Theory.” Entry in the International Encyclopedia of Communication.

“Naming practices in disciplinary discourse, 1914-1928,” Quarterly Journal of Speech.

“Speech codes theory and traces of culture in interpersonal communication.” In Leslie Baxter and Dawn Braithwaite, Editors, Handbook of Theories of Interpersonal Communication, Sage Publications.

“In ‘the context of devolution’”. In John Wilson and Karyn Stapleton, Editors,
Devolution and Identity. Ashgate Press.

Philipsen, Gerry and Leighter, James. “Tell” in After Mr. Sam. In Francois Cooren Ed., Interacting and Organizing: Analyses of a Board Meeting. Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.

2005

Philipsen, Gerry, Coutu, Lisa and Covarrubias, Patricia. “Speech Codes Theory:
Restatement, Revisions, and a Response to Criticisms.” In William Gudykunst, Ed., Theorizing about Communication and Culture. Sage Publications.

2004

Philipsen, Gerry and Coutu, Lisa. “The Ethnography of Speaking.” In Robert E.
Sanders and Kristine L. Fitch, Eds., Handbook of Language and Social Interaction.
Lawrence Erlbaum Inc.

2002

“Cultural Communication.” In William Gudykunst and Bela Mody, Eds., Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication. Sage Publications.