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Josh Compton, Professor of Speech, has been awarded the 2022 Distinguished Book Award from the Communication and Social Cognition Division of the National Communication Association for his book, Persuasion…
The challenges are many, but the potential solutions—especially from those in a communication discipline embracing the importance of process and recognizing the power of relationships—are even greater. ELIZABETH…
[I]ncluding a brief inoculation message prior to message exposure should enhance message reception and reduce defensive message processing. . . RUSSELL CLAYTON, JOSH COMPTON, TOBIAS REYNOLDS-TYLUS, DOMINIK NEUMANN,…
My nonspeaking son is a great speech teacher. JOSH COMPTON Being the Voice: A Conversation with Josh and Trumie. Windsor School. October 17, 2022.
I was once asked how I succeeded in my career as a as a speech professor in spite of my stutter. And now I can say quite confidently…
Inoculation theory of resistance to influence. Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, August 31, 2022.
Inoculation is a powerful approach to communicating climate–preempting rather than reacting to misinformation. JOSH COMPTON Inoculation theory and climate communication. Dartmouth Symposium on Climate, Energy and Society. Irving…
[S]ome of the rhetorical moves Winans makes, I contend, are doing particularly notable work, with a focus toward image prepare—the preemptive use of image-building strategies against anticipated attacks….
Our analysis adds to a growing body of sport image repair scholarship and adds to the theorizing of inoculation strategies in the face of disappointing seasons or losses.
–JOSH COMPTON & JORDAN COMPTON
I’ve always had a complicated relationship with my voice. I’m a stutterer, and I’m a speech professor.
Much of my stutter is covert, from over forty years’ practice of creative ways to avoid blocks and elongations and repetitions. I glide into a quick word substitution, or I linger for a second or two of strategic silence. And as a result, I usually pass as fluent—so well, even, that I won scores of awards for public speaking and debate in college. And now I’m regularly invited to give talks about my research for academic and community events. I teach a popular public speaking course with a wait list that regularly doubles and triples the number of available seats in my class. My stutter is not obvious to most people. I sound pretty fluent, usually.
But Dysfluent—an independent magazine supported by the Irish Stammering Association and the British Stammering Association / STAMMA and created by Conor Foran and Bart Rzeznik—challenges the idea that passing as fluent is the only worthy metric for a good voice. I see this magazine as a sort of celebration of stammering, of stuttering as a different way of communicating. Its essays and interviews give space to the stuttering voice—and more than just space. A platform and a spotlight and applause.