The National and Cosmopolitan Dimensions of Disciplinarity

Reconsidering the Origins of Communication Studies

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ID9239592
AuthorsKirt H Wilson (0000-0001-8920-7152, Engineering Arts (United States), corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume101
Issue1
Pages244-257
Publication date2015-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueQuarterly Journal of Speech (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-5630 • E-ISSN: 1479-5779
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00335630.2015.995437
OpenAlexW1975848682
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Using the first five years of the Quarterly Journal of Speech as a record of Communication Studies' founding, I contend that the discipline began with a tension between contrasting sets of affect and reasoning. In the initial volumes of QJS, one reads many recommendations designed to establish the discipline's academic sovereignty and self-determination, but, at the same time, other essays suggest a commitment to cross-disciplinary inquiry and citizenship. I interpret this tension through contemporary theories of nationalism and cosmopolitanism. These concepts highlight the implications of competing visions for the discipline's future, but they also reveal how cosmopolitan and nationalist processes complemented one another in the early years of “Speech.” I argue, finally, that this tension provides opportunities for Communication Studies in the twenty-first century

Citizenship · Cosmopolitanism · Discipline · Epistemology · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Vision · Anthropology · Diverse Musicological Studies · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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