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Covers the recent literature in communication studies including mass, interpersonal, and new communication technologies.
Good general database that indexes articles from scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology.
Publications indexed include scholarly journals, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, books, pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government reports. Covers 175 titles. Topics: women's studies, gender studies, family studies, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender studies.
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LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis)
Provides access to over a billion full-text news, magazine, legal, and business articles and information from newspapers, magazines, government documents, newsletters, business industries and companies, and state and federal laws.
MLA International Bibliography
Includes over one million citations from journals. Indexes books, essay collections, proceedings, dissertation, etc. pertaining to folklore, language, and literature. Sources number more than 6,500.
Proquest Dissertations & Theses
Access citations and abstracts for all titles in the Dissertation Abstracts databases. Titles published since 1997 are available in 24 page PDF previews.
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Includes the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Science Citation Index Expanded. Allows users to search for cited references.
OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Full-text coverage begins in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.
Journals
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Communication Booknotes Quarterly
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
Communication Studies
- Call Number: PN4071 .C498
Location: Boca Raton
Discourse: Berkeley Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture
- Call Number: P87 .D57
Location: Boca Raton
Discourse & Society
- Call Number: P302 .D5476
Location: Boca Raton
Philosophy & Rhetoric
- Call Number: B1 .P572
Location: Boca Raton
Pre/Text
- Call Number: P301 .P68
Location: Boca Raton
Rhetoric Review
- Call Number: PN171.4 .R44
Location: Boca Raton
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
- Call Number: PN171.4 .R46
Location: Boca Raton
Rhetorica
- Call Number: PN183 .R45
Location: Boca Raton
The Southern Communication Journal
- Call Number: PN4071 .S65
Location: Boca Raton
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Subject Sections
Oral Communication. Speech
- Call Number: P95 - P95.6
Rhetoric
- Call Number: P95 - P95.6P301 - P301.5
Authorship - Technique. Literary composition, etc.
- Call Number: P95 - P95.6PN172 - PN239
Literary history
- Call Number: P95 - P95.6, PN441 - PN1009.5
Subject Terms
- Communication
- Mass Media
- Forensics (Public speaking)
- Minorities in Communication
- Intercultural Communication
- Interpersonal Communication
- Rhetoric
- Rhetorical Criticism
- Journalism--United States
- Telecommunicaiton
Resources By Library
Boca Raton
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Communication Abstracts.
- Call Number: P87 .C55
Format: Book
Index to Journals in Communication Studies Through 1995. Matlon, Ronald J. Annandale, VA: National Communication Association, 1997. 692p.
This source indexes articles from twenty-four communication studies journals, through 1995. Includes author and subject keyword indexes.
- Call Number: P87 .M39 1997
Format: Book
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communications. Danesi, Marcel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 266p.
Includes some of the major terms used in semiotics and communication. Each entry includes the word's etymology, and some include notes with cross references. A bibliography for further in-depth reading is provided.
- Call Number: P87.5 .D36 2000
Format: Book
Dictionary of Media & Communication Studies. Watson, James, and Anne Hill. London: Arnold, 2000. 364p.
Highlights the past and present key concepts in communication and media. Also includes a chronology of media events from AD 105 to 1999.
- Call Number: P87.5 .W38 2000
Format: Book
Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications. Weiner, Richard. New York: Macmillan, 1996. 676p.
A revised edition with entries that reflect the electronic age. Also includes names of media associations and companies. For both the professional and the layperson.
- Call Number: P87.5 .W45 1996
Format: Book
International Encyclopedia of Communications. Barnouw, Erik et al., eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 4 volumes. Illustrations.
Entries include some of the notable keywords, time periods, and people in the history of communication. Some items include bibliographies.
- Call Number: P87.5 .I5 1989
Format: Book
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. Enos, Theresa, ed. New York: Garland Pub., 1996. 803p.
An alphabetical sequence that serves as an introduction to rhetoric, its concepts, and applications. Also provides an overview of rhetoric in the late twentieth century. Suitable for the rhetoric student, the specialist from other fields, and the theoretician who seeks to understand how the field is evolving. Each entry is followed by a short bibliography to assist the reader in further study.
- Call Number: PN172 .E53 1996
Format: Book
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. Sloane, Thomas O., ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Contains approximately two hundred entries ranging from figures of speech to classical rhetoric, but no persons involved in rhetoric. Also includes an abbreviated outline of the elements of rhetoric, its major principles, and related subjects.
- Call Number: PN172 .E52 2001
Format: Book
Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Mass Media and Society. Alexander, Alison, and Jarice Hanson, eds. Guilford, Conn.: Dushkin Pub. Group, 1999. 353p.
Designed for students in an introductory mass communication college course. The book presents 18 controversial issues, each with a pro and con point of view. Issues fall under media business, regulation, media ethics, and the information society.
- Call Number: HN90 .M3 T34 1999
Format: Book
The Penguin Atlas of Media and Information. Balnaves, Mark. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001. 128p.
A splendid reference source that visually details the roles media and information play on globalization. Most of the statistics come from the late 1990s and year 2000. Investigates the world-wide spread of the press and radio, cinema, advertising, media ownership and more.
- Call Number: P91 .B28 2001
Format: Book
Communication and the Mass Media: A Guide to the Reference Literature. Block, Eleanor S. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1991.
Annotated guide to the English-language reference sources available in communication (communication theory, interpersonal and small group communication, organizational communication, mass communication, rhetoric, speech, applied linguistics, international and intercultural communication, and others.) Listings include entries on dictionaries, encyclopedias, indexes, etc. Suitable for the upper division undergraduate or beginning graduate communication student.
- Call Number: Z5630 .B54 1991
Format: Book
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A refereed electronic journal for rhetorical and cultural studies that focuses on rhetorical, writing, and cultural theories.
A guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. From a Brigham Young University professor.
In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities
Provides glossaries, quotations, and bibliographies of literary criticism, rhetoric, linguistics, and identity politics.
International Communication Association
International association for scholars interested in all aspects of mediated communication. Organization began more than 50 years ago and now boasts a membership of over 3,500 members from 65 countries.
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
Organization that promotes the theory and practice of rhetoric. Practical rhetorical skills are not emphasized.
National Communication Association
Non-profit organization that includes over 7,100 members from over 20 countries. Works towards enhancing research, teaching, and service within the discipline of communication. Founded in 1914, it is the largest and oldest organization to promote communication scholarship and education.
Site from the University of Central Oklahoma's College of Liberal Arts English department.
The organization "gather[s] from all relevant fields of study, and...disseminate[s] among its members, current knowledge of rhetoric, broadly construed."
Rhetorical and Cultural Studies: Critical Theory
From the University of Iowa's Communication Studies Department. This page provides links to sites about theorists and scholars from rhetorical and cultural studies, e.g. Adorno, Bourdieu, Foucault, Habermas, etc.
Southern States Communication Association
A not-for-profit organization that promotes the "study, criticism, research, teaching, and application of the artistic, humanistic, and scientific principles of communication."
Form the University of Iowa's Communication Studies Department. Provides links to over 50 websites about with speechmaking.
About this Guide
This guide was designed by Maris Hayashi to help identify resources on rhetoric and related topics in the FAU Libraries. The electronic resources are available from the FAU Libraries home page by following the links entitled Indexes/ Databases or Articles. Some of these resources have full-text articles available online. To access these resources from off campus, use the Off Campus Connect (EZproxy) link and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number and your 4-digit birth month and day in the format "MMDD." For further assistance, please contact the Reference Desk by telephone (561-297-3785) or send e-mail to lyref@fau.edu.
Created 28 January 2003
