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Littlejohn and Foss present the range of communication theories currently available in the discipline, organizing them according to the scholarly traditions and contexts from which they emerge. Cle...
Littlejohn and Foss present the range of communication theories currently available in the discipline, organizing them according to the scholarly traditions and contexts from which they emerge. Clear and accessible writing, charts that summarize the relationships among theories, and sections devoted to applications and implications help position theories within the discipline as a whole.
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- Stephen W. Littlejohn, Karen A. Foss
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- English
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- Eighth edition
- Southbank, Vic., Australia ; Belmont, Calif. : Thomson Wadsworth, [2005]
- ©2005
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- xvi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0534638732, 9780534638733
- OCLC
- ocm59224202
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-379) and index.
- pt. I. Foundations -- 1. Communication theory and scholarship -- The academic study of communication -- Introducing communication theory -- Developing theories -- A basic model of inquiry -- Types of scholarship -- Making communication theories -- Communication theory as a field -- Levels of communication -- The intellectual structure of the communication field -- Defining communication -- Notes -- 2. The idea of theory -- Beginning to know theory -- Basic elements of theory -- Philosophical assumptions -- Concepts -- Explanations -- Principles -- Theoretical ideals -- Nomothetic theory -- Practical theory -- Evaluating communication theory -- Theoretical scope -- Appropriateness -- Heuristic value -- Validity -- Parsimony -- Openness -- Looking forward -- Notes -- 3. Traditions of communication theory -- Framing communication theory -- The semiotic tradition -- Key ideas of the semiotic tradition -- Variations in the semiotic tradition -- The phenomenological tradition -- Key ideas of the phenomenological tradition -- Variations in the phenomenological tradition -- The cybernetic tradition -- Key ideas of the cybernetic tradition -- Variations in the cybernetic tradition -- The sociopsychological tradition -- Key ideas of the sociopsychological tradition -- Variations in the sociopsychological tradition -- The sociocultural tradition -- Key ideas of the sociocultural tradition -- Variations in the sociocultural tradition -- The critical tradition -- Key ideas of the critical tradition -- Variations in the critical tradition -- The rhetorical tradition -- Key ideas of the rhetorical tradition -- Variations in the rhetorical tradition -- Expanding contexts for communication -- Notes
- pt. II. Theories -- 4. The communicator -- The sociopsychological tradition -- Traits -- Cognition and information processing -- Reflections on the sociopsychological tradition -- The cybernetic tradition -- Information-integration theory -- Consistency theories -- Problematic integration theory -- Reflections on the cybernetic tradition -- The sociocultural tradition -- Symbolic interaction and the development of self -- Social construction of self -- The social construction of emotion -- The presentational self -- Reflections on the sociocultural tradition -- The critical tradition -- Standpoint theory -- Identity as constructed and performed -- Queer theory -- Reflections on the critical tradition -- Applications & implications -- Notes -- 5. The message -- The semiotic tradition -- Symbol theory : Susanne Langer -- Classical foundations of language -- Theories of nonverbal signs -- Reflections on the semiotic tradition -- The sociocultural tradition -- Speech act theory -- Kenneth Burke's theory of identification -- Language and gender -- Reflections on the sociocultural tradition -- The sociopsychological tradition -- Action assembly theory -- Strategy choice models -- Message design models -- Semantic meaning theory -- Reflections on the sociopsychological tradition -- The phenomenological tradition -- Paul Ricoeur -- Stanley Fish -- Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Reflections on the phenomenological tradition -- Applications & implications -- Notes -- 6. The conversation -- The sociopsychological tradition -- Managing uncertainty and anxiety -- Accommodation and adaptation -- Reflections on the sociopsychological tradition -- The sociocultural tradition -- Symbolic interactionism -- Symbolic convergence theory -- Conversation analysis -- Face negotiation theory -- Reflections on the sociocultural tradition -- The cybernetic tradition -- The coordinated management of meaning -- Reflections on the cybernetic tradition -- The critical tradition -- Language-centered perspective on culture -- Invitational rhetoric -- Reflections on the critical tradition -- Applications & implications -- Notes -- 7. The relationship -- The cybernetic tradition -- Relational patterns of interaction -- Reflections on the cybernetic tradition -- The sociopsychological tradition -- Relational schemas in the family -- Social penetration theory -- Reflections on the sociopsychological tradition -- The sociocultural tradition -- Bakhtin's theory of dialogics -- A dialectical theory of relationships -- Communication privacy management -- Reflections on the sociopsychological tradition -- The phenomenological tradition -- Carl Rogers -- Martin Buber -- Reflections ion the phenomenological tradition -- Applications & implications -- Notes -- 8. The group -- The sociopsychological tradition -- Interaction process analysis -- Reflections on the sociopsychological tradition -- The cybernetic tradition -- Bona fide group theory -- Input-process-output model -- Fisher's interaction analysis -- Effective intercultural work group theory -- Reflections on the cybernetic tradition -- The sociocultural tradition -- The structurational perspective -- Functional theory -- Groupthink theory -- Reflections on the sociocultural tradition -- Applications & implications -- Notes -- 9. The organization -- The sociopsychological tradition -- Weber's theory of bureaucracy -- Likert's four systems -- Reflections on the sociopsychological tradition -- The cybernetic tradition -- The process of organizing -- Network theory -- Reflections on the cybernetic tradition -- The sociocultural tradition -- Conversation and text in the process of organizing -- Structuration theory -- Organizational control theory -- Organizational culture -- Reflections on the sociocultural tradition -- The critical tradition -- Dennis Mumby's hermeneutic of suspicion -- Deetz on managerialism and organizational democracy -- Gender and race in organizational communication -- Reflections on the critical tradition -- Applications & implications -- Notes -- 10. The media -- The semiotic tradition -- Jean Baudrillard and the semiotics of media -- Reflections on the semiotic tradition -- The sociocultural tradition -- Medium theory -- The agenda-setting function -- Social action media studies -- Reflections on the sociocultural tradition -- The sociopsychological tradition -- The effects tradition -- Uses, gratifications, and dependency -- Cultivation theory -- Reflections on the sociopsychological tradition -- The cybernetic tradition -- Public opinion and the spiral of silence -- Reflections on the cybernetic tradition -- The critical tradition -- Branches of critical media theory -- Reflections on the critical tradition -- Applications & implications -- Notes -- 11. Culture and society -- The semiotic tradition -- Linguistic relativity -- Elaborated and restricted codes -- Reflections on the semiotic tradition -- The cybernetic tradition -- Dynamic social impact theory -- The diffusion of information and influence -- Reflections on the cybernetic tradition -- The phenomenological tradition -- Cultural hermeneutics -- Reflections on the phenomenological tradition -- The sociocultural tradition -- Ethnography of communication -- Performance ethnography -- Reflections on the sociocultural tradition -- The critical tradition -- Modernism -- Postmodernism -- Poststructuralism and the work of Michel Foucault -- Postcolonialism -- Reflections on the critical tradition -- Applications & implications -- Notes
- pt. III. Integration -- 12. Making theories personal -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index