Rhetorical and communication studies: Two worlds or one?

Conventional social science inquiry in human communication: Theory and practice

“…1 Recently, the feud has accelerated with vigorous attack, 2 continuous defense, 3 and occasional pleas for reconciliation. 4 Several complaints have been leveled at conventional social science vis-a-vis attacks on logical positivism and its attendant Received View of Theories. 5 Typically, critics who make these charges begin by contending that conventional social science is inherently positivistic and that the Received View "has long dominated communication theory and research" through the prevailing paradigm of conventional social science.…”