The Civility Cudgel

The Myth of Civility in Communication

Bibliographic Data

ID21637301
AuthorsAllison Hawn (Arizona State University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume31
Issue2
Pages218-230
Publication date2020-03-14
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHoward Journal of Communications (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1064-6175 • E-ISSN: 1096-4649
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10646175.2020.1731882
OpenAlexW3008620239
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited17

Civility has become a buzzword, not only in our world at large, but in Communication scholarship specifically. However, the concept of communicative and dialogic civility is problematic due not only to its historical position as a term used for oppression, racism, and perpetuating hegemonic power, but in the issues it causes in modern praxis. In 1972, Barthes described the process through which words or images are emptied of their original meanings and filled with new meanings to create a “myth.” This work aims to deconstruct the myth of civility by examining its troubling history, establishing the problematic nature of its use in modern society, and endeavoring to discuss its unsettling foothold in modern Communication studies and pedagogy

Aesthetics · Civility · Dialogic · Hegemony · Mythology · Oppression · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Scholarship · Sociology · Subaltern · Theology · Gender Studies · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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