Karen A Foss
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5595384 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Karen A Foss |
| PRENOMES | Karen A |
| SOBRENOME | Foss |
| ASSINATURA | FOSS K A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of New Mexico |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
From research findings to theory
Many research studies in semiotics and communication make important contributions by describing, interpreting, or explaining particular phenomena. Yet relatively few culminate in the development of a theory that integrates their findings into a broader conceptual framework. As a result, valuable insights often remain tied to the specific context in which they were generated rather than contributing to a more general understanding of the phenomeno…
The placenta economy
This article examines the human placenta not only as a scientific, medical and biological entity but as a consumer bio-product. In the emergent placenta economy, the human placenta is exchanged and gains potentiality as food, medicine and cosmetics. Drawing on empirical research from the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Japan, the authors use feminist cultural analysis and consumer theories to discuss how the placenta is exchanged a…
Empowering Disgust
This article examines communication practices surrounding the unconventional yet emerging trend of postpartum placenta use: eating, encapsulating, or burying the human placenta. Through interviews with both supporters and nonsupporters of postpartum placenta practices, we explore conceptualizations of placenta consumption and burial within larger mothering, childbirth, and postpartum rhetorics. We argue that placenta practices function rhetorical…
Fertility Travel
Assisted reproduction in a global world produces not only new babies and new parents but also new citizens and raises new bioethical concerns (e.g., Campbell 2007; Franklin 2001; Thompson 2005). This essay outlines an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective in understanding how fertility travel and transnational reproduction unfold from the perspectives of the different actors involved. Three theoretical pairs—care and engineering, reproscapes …
Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
This two-volume encyclopedia on communication theory contains more that 300 signed entries which will provide users with an authoritative and and thorough reference resource, both in terms of breadth and depth of coverage
Baudrillard and Our Destiny with the Natural World
Drawing on the writings of Jean Baudrillard, the purpose of this essay is to suggest a set of communication practices that promote a different way of thinking about the earth–human relationship. Baudrillard's “fatal strategies” are developed into concepts of intersubjectivity, seduction, and sorcery, which when used in conjunction with more traditional, logical rhetorical appeals, can produce powerful appeals for environmental change. To illustra…
Our Journey to Repowered Feminism
We explore our feminist journey using Bitzer's rhetorical situation. We started with an exigence of oppression, the audience as representatives of the dominant system, the constraints as unequal structural features, and strategies of petition and resistance. We then moved to conceptualizing the exigence as interpretation, the audience as ourselves, the constraints as the capacity to imagine, and the key strategy as deliberate choice. This concept…
Social Identity Theory
Haunting Argentina
Since April, 1977, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires have marched every Thursday at 3:30, demanding information about their disappeared children. In this essay, we analyze the protests of the Mothers by means of the metaphor of haunting and suggest that their symbols‐diapers as kerchiefs, slogans and sayings, circling the plaza, and marches‐enact a haunting by means of synecdoche. Synecdoche allows the Mothers to manage the trauma of t…
Transforming Rhetoric Through Feminist Reconstruction
In this response to Condit's essay, the tenets of her gender diversity perspective are outlined and addressed. The authors conclude that although Condit's tenets concerning gender are visionary, those concerning rhetoric constitute a defense of a traditional conception of rhetoric, unchanged by gender and feminism. They then outline the tenets of their feminist-reconstructionist perspective, one which focuses on the reconstruction of rhetoric thr…
The construction of feminine spectatorship in Garrison Keillor's radio monologues
In this essay, the monologues of Garrison Keillor on the radio program, A Prairie Home Companion (later American Radio Company), are analyzed to discover how a feminine spectator is constructed rhetorically in a text. Keillor's monologues, we suggest, create a preferred spectator position that relies on traditionally feminine competencies. This construction is accomplished through Keillor's refusal to privilege vision, dismantling of the male gaz…
Revisioning the American Public Address Course
Student Perceptions of Gender in Managerial Communication
Feminist Scholarship in Speech Communication
(1989). Feminist Scholarship in Speech Communication: Contributions and Obstacles. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-10
What Distinguishes Feminist Scholarship in Communication Studies
(1988). What Distinguishes Feminist Scholarship in Communication Studies? Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 9-11
A Relational Model for Managing Second Language Anxiety
Researchers and teachers in the fields of speech communication and second language acquisition have been concerned with the phenomenon of communication anxiety. Although the anxieties experienced by native speakers of a language differ somewhat from those experienced by nonnative speakers, we suggest that students' perceptions of their communication abilities and performances must be taken into account when dealing with the anxiety responses of b…
Books reviews
MITEINANDER SPRECHEN UND HANDELN: FESTSCHRIFT FÜR HELLMUT GEISSNER. Edited by Edith Slembek. Frankfurt (Main): Scriptor Verlag, 1986; pp. 360. REALISM AND RELATIVISM: A PERSPECTIVE ON KENNETH BURKE. By Robert L. Heath. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986; pp. xi + 270. $34.95. THE INVENTION OF ATHENS: THE FUNERAL ORATION IN THE CLASSICAL CITY. By Nicole Loraux, translated from the French by Alan Sheridan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,…
The day after
This essay presents a fantasy theme analysis of the issue of nuclear war as it emerges from a comparison of personal statements and the film The Day After. These forms of discourse resonate with one another and reflect a rhetorical vision consisting in part of actors as victims, the bomb as antagonist, the scene as one of rubble, and plot as one of acts of destruction, death, and attempts to survive. It is suggested that a new deep structure of i…
A Symposium
Research on Communication and Gender
(1984). Research on Communication and Gender: Making the Link to Feminist Theory. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 83-85
Thought, Sex, and Language
(1977). Thought, Sex, and Language: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in the American Women's Movement. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-7
Fertility Travel
Assisted reproduction in a global world produces not only new babies and new parents but also new citizens and raises new bioethical concerns (e.g., Campbell 2007; Franklin 2001; Thompson 2005). This essay outlines an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective in understanding how fertility travel and transnational reproduction unfold from the perspectives of the different actors involved. Three theoretical pairs—care and engineering, reproscapes …
What Distinguishes Feminist Scholarship in Communication Studies
(1988). What Distinguishes Feminist Scholarship in Communication Studies? Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 9-11
A Relational Model for Managing Second Language Anxiety
Researchers and teachers in the fields of speech communication and second language acquisition have been concerned with the phenomenon of communication anxiety. Although the anxieties experienced by native speakers of a language differ somewhat from those experienced by nonnative speakers, we suggest that students' perceptions of their communication abilities and performances must be taken into account when dealing with the anxiety responses of b…
Our Journey to Repowered Feminism
We explore our feminist journey using Bitzer's rhetorical situation. We started with an exigence of oppression, the audience as representatives of the dominant system, the constraints as unequal structural features, and strategies of petition and resistance. We then moved to conceptualizing the exigence as interpretation, the audience as ourselves, the constraints as the capacity to imagine, and the key strategy as deliberate choice. This concept…
Feminist Scholarship in Speech Communication
(1989). Feminist Scholarship in Speech Communication: Contributions and Obstacles. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-10
The placenta economy
This article examines the human placenta not only as a scientific, medical and biological entity but as a consumer bio-product. In the emergent placenta economy, the human placenta is exchanged and gains potentiality as food, medicine and cosmetics. Drawing on empirical research from the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Japan, the authors use feminist cultural analysis and consumer theories to discuss how the placenta is exchanged a…
Empowering Disgust
This article examines communication practices surrounding the unconventional yet emerging trend of postpartum placenta use: eating, encapsulating, or burying the human placenta. Through interviews with both supporters and nonsupporters of postpartum placenta practices, we explore conceptualizations of placenta consumption and burial within larger mothering, childbirth, and postpartum rhetorics. We argue that placenta practices function rhetorical…
Transforming Rhetoric Through Feminist Reconstruction
In this response to Condit's essay, the tenets of her gender diversity perspective are outlined and addressed. The authors conclude that although Condit's tenets concerning gender are visionary, those concerning rhetoric constitute a defense of a traditional conception of rhetoric, unchanged by gender and feminism. They then outline the tenets of their feminist-reconstructionist perspective, one which focuses on the reconstruction of rhetoric thr…
Social Identity Theory
Haunting Argentina
Since April, 1977, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires have marched every Thursday at 3:30, demanding information about their disappeared children. In this essay, we analyze the protests of the Mothers by means of the metaphor of haunting and suggest that their symbols‐diapers as kerchiefs, slogans and sayings, circling the plaza, and marches‐enact a haunting by means of synecdoche. Synecdoche allows the Mothers to manage the trauma of t…
Student Perceptions of Gender in Managerial Communication
Thought, Sex, and Language
(1977). Thought, Sex, and Language: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in the American Women's Movement. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-7
Research on Communication and Gender
(1984). Research on Communication and Gender: Making the Link to Feminist Theory. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 83-85
A Symposium
The day after
This essay presents a fantasy theme analysis of the issue of nuclear war as it emerges from a comparison of personal statements and the film The Day After. These forms of discourse resonate with one another and reflect a rhetorical vision consisting in part of actors as victims, the bomb as antagonist, the scene as one of rubble, and plot as one of acts of destruction, death, and attempts to survive. It is suggested that a new deep structure of i…
Books reviews
MITEINANDER SPRECHEN UND HANDELN: FESTSCHRIFT FÜR HELLMUT GEISSNER. Edited by Edith Slembek. Frankfurt (Main): Scriptor Verlag, 1986; pp. 360. REALISM AND RELATIVISM: A PERSPECTIVE ON KENNETH BURKE. By Robert L. Heath. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986; pp. xi + 270. $34.95. THE INVENTION OF ATHENS: THE FUNERAL ORATION IN THE CLASSICAL CITY. By Nicole Loraux, translated from the French by Alan Sheridan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,…
What Distinguishes Feminist Scholarship in Communication Studies
(1988). What Distinguishes Feminist Scholarship in Communication Studies? Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 9-11
A Relational Model for Managing Second Language Anxiety
Researchers and teachers in the fields of speech communication and second language acquisition have been concerned with the phenomenon of communication anxiety. Although the anxieties experienced by native speakers of a language differ somewhat from those experienced by nonnative speakers, we suggest that students' perceptions of their communication abilities and performances must be taken into account when dealing with the anxiety responses of b…
Feminist Scholarship in Speech Communication
(1989). Feminist Scholarship in Speech Communication: Contributions and Obstacles. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-10
Student Perceptions of Gender in Managerial Communication
Revisioning the American Public Address Course
The construction of feminine spectatorship in Garrison Keillor's radio monologues
In this essay, the monologues of Garrison Keillor on the radio program, A Prairie Home Companion (later American Radio Company), are analyzed to discover how a feminine spectator is constructed rhetorically in a text. Keillor's monologues, we suggest, create a preferred spectator position that relies on traditionally feminine competencies. This construction is accomplished through Keillor's refusal to privilege vision, dismantling of the male gaz…
Transforming Rhetoric Through Feminist Reconstruction
In this response to Condit's essay, the tenets of her gender diversity perspective are outlined and addressed. The authors conclude that although Condit's tenets concerning gender are visionary, those concerning rhetoric constitute a defense of a traditional conception of rhetoric, unchanged by gender and feminism. They then outline the tenets of their feminist-reconstructionist perspective, one which focuses on the reconstruction of rhetoric thr…
Haunting Argentina
Since April, 1977, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires have marched every Thursday at 3:30, demanding information about their disappeared children. In this essay, we analyze the protests of the Mothers by means of the metaphor of haunting and suggest that their symbols‐diapers as kerchiefs, slogans and sayings, circling the plaza, and marches‐enact a haunting by means of synecdoche. Synecdoche allows the Mothers to manage the trauma of t…
Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
This two-volume encyclopedia on communication theory contains more that 300 signed entries which will provide users with an authoritative and and thorough reference resource, both in terms of breadth and depth of coverage
Baudrillard and Our Destiny with the Natural World
Drawing on the writings of Jean Baudrillard, the purpose of this essay is to suggest a set of communication practices that promote a different way of thinking about the earth–human relationship. Baudrillard's “fatal strategies” are developed into concepts of intersubjectivity, seduction, and sorcery, which when used in conjunction with more traditional, logical rhetorical appeals, can produce powerful appeals for environmental change. To illustra…
Our Journey to Repowered Feminism
We explore our feminist journey using Bitzer's rhetorical situation. We started with an exigence of oppression, the audience as representatives of the dominant system, the constraints as unequal structural features, and strategies of petition and resistance. We then moved to conceptualizing the exigence as interpretation, the audience as ourselves, the constraints as the capacity to imagine, and the key strategy as deliberate choice. This concept…
Social Identity Theory
Fertility Travel
Assisted reproduction in a global world produces not only new babies and new parents but also new citizens and raises new bioethical concerns (e.g., Campbell 2007; Franklin 2001; Thompson 2005). This essay outlines an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective in understanding how fertility travel and transnational reproduction unfold from the perspectives of the different actors involved. Three theoretical pairs—care and engineering, reproscapes …
The placenta economy
This article examines the human placenta not only as a scientific, medical and biological entity but as a consumer bio-product. In the emergent placenta economy, the human placenta is exchanged and gains potentiality as food, medicine and cosmetics. Drawing on empirical research from the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Japan, the authors use feminist cultural analysis and consumer theories to discuss how the placenta is exchanged a…
Empowering Disgust
This article examines communication practices surrounding the unconventional yet emerging trend of postpartum placenta use: eating, encapsulating, or burying the human placenta. Through interviews with both supporters and nonsupporters of postpartum placenta practices, we explore conceptualizations of placenta consumption and burial within larger mothering, childbirth, and postpartum rhetorics. We argue that placenta practices function rhetorical…
From research findings to theory
Many research studies in semiotics and communication make important contributions by describing, interpreting, or explaining particular phenomena. Yet relatively few culminate in the development of a theory that integrates their findings into a broader conceptual framework. As a result, valuable insights often remain tied to the specific context in which they were generated rather than contributing to a more general understanding of the phenomeno…
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