基本説明
More than 300 entries address topics related not only to paradigms, traditions, and schools, but also metatheory, methodology, inquiry, and applications and contexts. Entries cover several orientations, including psycho-cognitive; social-interactional; cybernetic and systems; cultural; critical; feminist; philosophical; rhetorical; semiotic, linguistic, and discursive; and non-Western. Concepts relate to interpersonal communication, groups and organizations, and media and mass communication.
Full Description
With more than 300 entries, these two volumes provide a one-stop source for a comprehensive overview of communication theory, offering current descriptions of theories as well as the background issues and concepts that comprise these theories. This is the first resource to summarize, in one place, the diversity of theory in the communication field.
Key Themes
Applications and Contexts
Critical Orientations
Cultural Orientations
Cybernetic and Systems Orientations
Feminist Orientations
Group and Organizational Concepts
Information, Media, and Communication Technology
International and Global Concepts
Interpersonal Concepts
Non-Western Orientations
Paradigms, Traditions, and Schools
Philosophical Orientations
Psycho-Cognitive Orientations
Rhetorical Orientations
Semiotic, Linguistic, and Discursive Orientations
Social/Interactional Orientations
Theory, Metatheory, Methodology, and Inquiry
