C. David Mortensen

Professor C. David Mortensen

I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in (a) communication and conflict, (b) communication theory, and (c) miscommunication and problematic talk.
I write long scientific monographs that deal with communicative difficulty, problematic interaction, and conflict. In 1994, I wrote the first scholarly book on the subject of Problematic Communication. In 1997 I wrote the first scholarly book on the subject of Miscommunication. I have spent the last five years writing a third scholarly book on the subject of The Reality of Everyday Life: Misunderstanding Other People. In 1999 I wrote a major essay dealing with problems with Linguistic Constructions in Violence, Peace, & Conflict. In addition to the work in progress or already published, I wrote Communication: The Study of Human Interaction in 1972. I also edited several volumes, Basic Readings in Communication Theory, Advances in Communication Theory and Foundations of Communication Theory (with Kenneth Sereno). I also designed the Addison-Wesley series in communication research (four volumes).
I just finished a revision of a classic text, Communication Theory, which Transaction Press requested to publish in their new division—classic contributions to social science. It is due out in December. I have also written The Good Life: Pathways to Personal Fulfillment for Lexington Books. I am also finishing a second project, Optimal Human Relations, for Transaction Press.