Theories of human communication / Stephen W. Littlejohn, Karen A. Foss. [print]

Machine generated contents note: part I FOUNDATIONS -- 1. Communication Theory and Scholarship Defining Communication The Academic Study of Communication The Process of Inquiry in Communication A Basic Model of Inquiry Types of Scholarship How Scholars Work Notes -- 2. The Idea of Theory Dimensions of Theory Philosophical Assumptions Concepts Explanations Principles Nomothetic Theory Philosophical Assumptions Concepts Explanations Practical Theory Philosophical Assumptions Concepts Explanations Principles Evaluating Communication Theory Theoretical Scope Appropriateness Heuristic Value Validity Parsimony Openness So What Makes a Good Theory After All? 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 -- part II THEORIES -- 4. The Communicator The Sociopsychological Tradition Trait Theory Cognition and Information Processing.

The Cybernetic Tradition Information-Integration Theory Theory of Cognitive Dissonance Problematic-Integration Theory The Sociocultural Tradition Symbolic Interaction and Self as a Social Object The Presentational Self The Communication Theory of Identity Identity Negotiation Theory The Rhetorical Tradition Richard Weaver's Theory of Truth and Rhetoric Ernesto Grassi's Italian Humanism The Critical Tradition Standpoint Theory Identity as Constructed and Performed Queer Theory Applications and Implications Notes -- 5. The Message The Semiotic Tradition Semiotics of Language Theories of Nonverbal Coding The Phenomenological Tradition Paul Ricoeur's Theory of Distanciation Stanley Fish's Reader-Response Theory Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics The Rhetorical Tradition Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric Toulmin's Practical Argumentation.

Bitzer's Rhetorical Situation Burke's Theory of Identification Fisher's Narrative Paradigm The Sociocultural Tradition Speech Act Theory Language and Gender The Sociopsychological Tradition Action-Assembly Theory Strategy-Choice Models Message-Design Models Applications and Implications Notes -- 6. The Conversation The Sociopsychological Tradition Managing Uncertainty and Anxiety Accommodation and Adaptation The Sociocultural Tradition Symbolic Interactionism Conversation Analysis Face-Negotiation Theory The Rhetorical Tradition Symbolic Convergence Theory Invitational Rhetoric The Cybernetic Tradition The Coordinated Management of Meaning The Critical Tradition Language-Centered Perspective on Culture Co-cultural Theory Applications and Implications Notes -- 7. The Relationship The Cybernetic Tradition Relational Patterns of Interaction.

The Sociopsychological Tradition Relational Schemas in the Family Social Penetration Theory The Rhetorical Tradition Bakhtin's Theory of Dialogics Aimee Carrillo Rowe's Theory of Coalition and Alliance Building The Sociocultural Tradition Identity Management Theory Relational Dialectics Theory Communication Privacy Management The Phenomenological Tradition Carl Rogers Martin Buber Applications and Implications Notes -- 8. The Group The Sociopsychological Tradition Interaction-Process Analysis The Cybernetic Tradition Bona Fide Group Theory The Input-Process-Output Model The Sociocultural Tradition Structuration Theory Functional Theory Groupthink Theory The Critical Tradition Feminist Critique of Small Group Theory Applications and Implications Notes -- 9. The Organization The Sociopsychological Tradition Managerialism and Weber's Theory of Bureaucracy.

The Cybernetic Tradition The Process of Organizing Actor-Network Theory, Co-orientation, and the Montreal School Network Theory The Rhetorical Tradition Organizational Control Theory The Sociocultural Tradition Structuration Theory Organizational Culture The Critical Tradition Discourse of Suspicion Corporate Colonization Theory Gender and Race in Organizational Communication Applications and Implications Notes -- 10. The Media The Semiotic Tradition Jean Baudrillard and the Semiotics of Media The Sociocultural Tradition Medium Theory Agenda Setting and Framing Social Action Media Studies The Sociopsychological Tradition The Effects Tradition Cultivation Theory Uses, Gratifications, and Dependency The Cybernetic Tradition Spiral of Silence Lineation Theory The Rhetorical Tradition Kenneth Burke's Equipment for Living The Critical Tradition Critical Media Theories Feminist Media Studies Bell hooks's Critique of Media Applications and Implications Notes.

11. Culture and Society The Semiotic Tradition Linguistic Relativity Elaborated and Restricted Codes The Cybernetic Tradition Communication Networks and the Process of Diffusion Cross-Cultural Adaptation Theory The Phenomenological Tradition Cultural Hermeneutics The Sociocultural Tradition Ethnography of Communication Performance Ethnography The Critical Tradition Modernism Postmodernism Poststructuralism and the Work of Michel Foucault Postcolonialism The Rhetorical Tradition Critical Rhetoric Dana Cloud's Materiality of Discourse Applications and Implications Notes.

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