Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric

This authoritative collection provides a comprehensive overview of the theory of invitational rhetoric, developed twenty-five years ago by the volume editors. The book provides a wide range of resources on community organizing, social justice activism, social media, decision-making, communication and composition pedagogy, and interview protocols.

Sonja Foss is Professor of Communication at the University of Denver. She is co-author of Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World, 3rd edition (Waveland Press, 2012), which presents an entirely new model of presentational speaking rooted in invitational rhetoric, Women Speak: The Eloquence of Women’s Lives (with Karen A. Foss) (Waveland Press, 1991) and Gender Stories: Negotiating Identity in a Binary World (with Karen A. Foss and Mary E. Domenico) (Waveland Press, 2013). Cindy Griffin is Professor of Communication at Colorado State University. She is the author of Invitation to Public Speaking, 6th edition (Cengage, 2018) and Invitation to Human Communication, 2nd edition (Cengage, 2017). She is also the coauthor (with Karma Chavez) of Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies (SUNY Press, 2012), which received the Outstanding Book Award of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender in 2012 and is completing a book on gender and communication, Beyond Gender Binaries: An Intersectional Orientation to Communication and Identities (SUNY Press)