Download or read book The Social History of Language and Social Interaction Research written by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz is Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. Degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching interests are in language and social interaction, ethnography of communication, intercultural communication, semiotics, communication theory, childhood socialization, and history of the discipline. Her major publications include the books Communication in Everyday Life (Ablex), Semiotics and Communication, and Wedding as Text (Erlbaum), and the edited collections Social Approaches to Communication (Guilford), From Generation to Generation and Socially Constructing Communication (Hampton). --Book Jacket.