Arguments, Aggression, and Conflict

Theodore A. Avtgis (Ph.D., Kent State University) is Associate Professor of Communication at West Virginia University. He has co-authored four books, including Argumentative and Aggressive Communication with Andrew S. Rancer. He serves on the editorial boards of Argument and Advocacy, Communication Research Reports, Human Communication, and Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, among others. Among several awards, he was recognized as one of the Top Twelve Most Productive Researchers in the field of Communication Studies (between 1996 and 2001) and as a member of the World Council on Hellenes Abroad, USA Region of American Academics.Andrew S. Rancer (Ph.D., Kent State University) is Professor of Communication at the University of Akron. He has published articles in Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, Communication Education, Communication Quarterly, and Communication Research Reports, among others. He is co-author of four books, and he has served as editor of Communication Research Reports and the Massachusetts Communication Journal. Among several honors, he is the recipient of the Eastern Communication Association’s Past Presidents/Officers Award (1989) and Distinguished Research Fellow Award (1997) and was a member of ECA’s Committee of Scholars (1989-90).

• Preface Part I: Conceptualization and Operationalization of Argumentative and Aggressive Communication 1. Approaches to Understanding Argumentative and Aggressive Communication (Michael Beatty, Alan Heisel, Brian Patterson, Kevin Wright) 2. The Measurement of Argumentative and Aggressive Communication (Timothy Levine) 3. Global Perspectives on Argumentative and Aggressive Communication (Yang Lin, Anne Maydan Nicotera) Part II: Contextual Research and Argumentative and Aggressive Communication 4. Instructional Communication (Paul Schrodt, Scott Myers) 5. Mass and Mediated Communication (Rebecca Chory, Anthony Roberto) 6. Argumentativeness and Verbal Aggressiveness in Applied Communication a. Political Communication (John Seiter, Robert Gass) b. Health Communication (Theodore Avtgis) c. Organizational Communication (Theodore Avtgis, Rebecca Chory) d. Sports Communication (Jeffrey Kassing) e. Negotiation (Jill Rudd) f. Nonverbal Communication (Andrew Rancer) g. Group Communication (Carolyn Anderson) h. Family Communication (Sally Vogl-Bauer) i. Teasing and Humor (Rachel DiCioccio) Part III: Specific Factors Influencing Argumentative and Aggressive Communication 7. Argumentativeness, Verbal Aggressiveness, and Other Traits (James McCroskey, Virginia Peck Richmond, Dale Hample) 8. Factors Stimulating the Use of Verbal Aggression (Charles Wigley) 9. The Instrumental Use of Verbal Aggression (Matthew M. Martin)

"The volume serves as a very helpful summary of the research in this important area of communcation study. The extensive bibliography in each chapter provides an excellent guide to the corpus of research." - Communication Research Trends