Description
Introducing Communication Theory: Analysis and Application focuses on the links among theory and everyday experiences. The text uses an engaging writing style to present the concept of theory, and helps students become insightful critical thinkers.
Features
An entirely new chapter on the interrelationship between technology and communication.
An entirely new chapter on media and communication.
The first three chapters of the book provide a solid foundation for studying the theories that follow.
Theory chapters in Part Two are organized into six sections with section openers to introduce groups of theory chapters.
Chapter-opening vignettes. Each chapter in the book begins with an extended vignette that is then integrated throughout the chapter.
The vignettes help students understand how communication theory plays out in the everyday lives of ordinary people.
Each chapter opener
Structured approach to presenting each theory. Each theory chapter has a consistent format that begins with a story, followed by an introduction, a summary of theoretical assumptions, a description of core concepts, and a critique.
Table of Contents Part One: Setting the Stage COMMUNICATION, THEORY, AND RESEARCH
Chapter 1: Thinking About Communication: Definitions, Models, and Ethics
Chapter 2: Thinking About the Field: Traditions and Contexts
Chapter 3: Thinking About Theory and Research
Part Two: Understanding the Dialogue THE SELF AND MESSAGES
Chapter 4: Symbolic Interaction Theory
Chapter 5: Coordinated Management of Meaning
Chapter 6: Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Chapter 7: Expectancy Violations Theory
RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 8: Uncertainty Reduction Theory
Chapter 9: Social Exchange Theory
Chapter 10: Social Penetration Theory
Chapter 11: Relational Dialectics Theory
Chapter 12: Communication Privacy Management Theory
Chapter 13: Social Information Processing
GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 14: Groupthink
Chapter 15: Structuration Theory
Chapter 16: Organizational Culture Theory
Chapter 17: Organizational Information Theory
THE PUBLIC
Chapter 18: The Rhetoric
Chapter 19: Dramatism
Chapter 20: The Narrative Paradigm
THE MEDIA
Chapter 21: Agenda Setting Theory
Chapter 22: Spiral of Silence Theory
Chapter 23: Uses and Gratifications Theory
Chapter 24: Cultivation Theory
Chapter 25: Cultural Studies
Chapter 26: Media Ecology Theory
CULTURE AND DIVERSITY
Chapter 27: Face-Negotiation Theory
Chapter 28: Communication Accommodation Theory
Chapter 29: Muted Group Theory
Chapter 30: Feminist Standpoint Theory
Richard West, Emerson College Lynn H. Turner, Marquette University