Designed to introduce students to the academic discipline of Communication, this text describes the scope and methods of communication studies, and sketches its history from the work of the early sophists to contemporary research efforts. Boxing Plato?s Shadow helps explain why, despite its long and venerable history of scholarly endeavor, Communication continues to struggle for recognition of its legitimate place in the academy. Throughout, the authors emphasize the field's durability over more than two millennia and the merits of multiple systematic approaches to the study of communication.

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Chapter 1. The Beginning of Communication Study
A Market for Communication Knowledge and Skill
The Sophists
Plato's Shadow
Aristotle's Resolution
Boxing Plato's Shadow
Contributions of Plato and Socrates to the Study of Communication
Chapter 2. Communication Study from Aristotle's Time to the 20th Century
Rhetoric in Egypt and Rome
Rhetoric in Christian Europe
The Contribution of the Moors
Humanism, the Renaissance, and the Printing Press
The Enlightenment and the Modern Concept of Communication
New Relevance for Rhetoric in England and the New World
Elocution
A Changing Academic World and the Birth of a New Discipline
Chapter 3. Humanistic Study of Communication in the 20th Century
Rhetorical Scholarship and the Practical Art of Speech
The Neo-Aristotelian Approach
The Limitations of Neo-Aristotleian Rhetorical Scholarship
The Neo-Aristotelian Legacy
New Foundations for Contemporary Rhetorical Scholarship
Rhetorical Scholarship Today
Chapter 4. The Emerging Social Science of Communication Study
The Nature of Social Science
Foundations of Social Science and Communication Study in the 19th Century
Early Scientific Study of Communication: Early 1900s through the 1940s
The Scientific Study of Communication from the 1940's to the Present
Chapter 5. Challenges Facing Social Scientists
Challenges Facing Humanist Scholars
The Challenge of Changing Technology
Areas of Specialization in Communication Research
Communication Study as Interdisciplinary Scholarship
Enduring Issues Confronting the Field
Communication Study and You