Canadian Communication Studies: A Discipline in Transition?

<jats:p> The four essays contained in this volume were all presented within days of each other either a t the 1987 Learneds or at the Montreal meetings of the Canadian Communication Association (CCA), the Association de recherches en communication du Quebec (ARCQ), or at the conference of the US based International Communications Association (ICA). The collective forum lent itself to a reconsideration of two questions occupying scholars for at least a decade: the development of communication studies in Canada and their relationship to the much older research traditions of the United States. Two of the papers, Roger de la Garde's Southam lecture and Liora Salter's response, address the f i r s t issue, while the presentations of Richard D. French, and John Meisel are attentive to the second. In spite of these differences in emphasis, the collected papers offer a great deal of overlap and cross-reference indicating that academic thinkers and government officials share a set of common concerns. </jats:p>