Pointing the Way to Communication Ethics Theory: The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgement

Abstract

This essay outlines the contribution of Michael Hyde's The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgement to the study and practice of communication ethics. Hyde provides theoretical insights for engaging communication ethics. Communication ethics in a postmodern context requires theoretical grounding; the presupposition that there is one understanding of communication ethics no longer exists in a time of narrative and virtue contention. The importance of this book is that it points to a theoretical understanding of an area of study now marked more by difference than by commonality.

Keywords:

• Communication Ethics
• Acknowledgement
• Philosophy of Communication

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Ronald C. Arnett

Ronald C. Arnett is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University