Communication Theory

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ISBN: 9781848601130 | 1848601131
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Copyright: 3/12/2010

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This set of four volumes provides a range of essays both canonical in, and at the cutting edge of, communication theory. The essays included represent communication theory in a fashion cognizant with the breadth of communication ' theories from humanities as well as from social sciences ' that takes place in the universe. The collection is thematic, dealing with intra-individual, interpersonal, organization (group-level) and macroscopic (society-level) approaches across the volumes.

The Processing of Communication on the Intra-Individual Level
General Approaches
Symbolic Interaction: An approach to human communication
Narration as a Human Communication Paradigm: The case of public moral argument
Ideology and Communication Theory
The Model of Language as Organon (A)
Pragma-Dialectical Theory of Argumentation
Framing: Toward clarification of a fractured paradigm
Focussing On The Message
A Cognitive Approach to Human Communication: An action assembly theory
The Logic of Message Design: Individual differences in reasoning about communication
An Approach to the Study of Communicative Acts
Focussing On The Recipient
Attitudes and Cognitive Organization
The Principle of Congruity in the Prediction of Attitude Change
Actions and Attitudes: The theory of cognitive dissonance
Attribution and Communication
Social Judgement Theory
Focussing On The Effects
An Overview of Persuability Research
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
Communication Between People
Focussing On The Communicator
Communicating Under Uncertainty
The Diffusion of an Innovation among Physicians
Notes on a Natural History of Fads
Prognosis versus Diagnosis. Two different categories underlying doctor-patient consultation
Focussing On The Message
Reciprocal Concessions Procedure for Inducing Compliance: The door-in-the-face technique
Compliance Without Pressure: The foot-in-the-door technique
The Contribution of Speech Act Theory to the Analysis of Conversation: How pre-sequences work
Relationships as Dialogues
Focussing On The Recipient
To Think or Not To Think: Exploring two routes to persuasion
The Heuristic-Systematic Model of Social Information Processing
Dimensions of Compliance-Gaining Strategies: A dimensional analysis
Problematic Integration Theory
Resistance to Persuasion Conferred by Active and Passive Prior Refutation of the Same and Alternative Counterarguments
From Intentions to Actions: A theory of planned behavior
Focussing On The Effects
Nonverbal Expectancy Violations: Model elaboration and application to immediacy behaviors
Dialogical Wisdom, Communicative Practice, and Organizational Life
Toward a Theory of Family Communication
Interpersonal Effects in Computer-Mediated Interaction: A relational perspective
Communication in Organizations and Group
Focussing On The Communicator
The Two-Step Flow of Communication: An up-to-date report on an hypothesis
The Influentials: Back to the concept of opinion leaders?
Structuration Theory as an Ontology for Communication Research
The Evolution and Current Status of the Functional perspective on Communication in Decision-Making and Problem-Solving Groups
Focussing On The Message
Notes Towards a Description of Social Representations
Perspectives on Group Argument: A critical review of persuasive arguments theory and an alternative structural view
Critical Theory
The Communicational Basis of Organization: Between the conversation and the text
Focussing On The Recipient
Opinion Spirals, Silent and Otherwise: Applying small-group research to public opinion phenomena
Collective Mind in Organizations: Heedful interrelating on flight decks
The Obstinate Audience: The influence process from the point of view of social communication
The Network Level of Analysis
Focussing On The Effects
Gossip and Scandal
The Social Identity Theory of Intergroup Behavior
Communication in Interpersonal Relationships: Social penetration processes
Group-Decision Making as a Structurational Process
Mass Communication
Focussing On The Communicator
Objectivity as Strategic Ritual: An examination of Newmen's notions of objectivity
Social Control in the Newsroom: A functional analysis
Focussing On The Message
Up And Down With Ecology - The "Issue-Attention Cycle"
International News: Intra and extra media data
Instrumental Actualization: A theory of mediated conflicts
Information Theory and Mass Communication
Theoretical Foundations of Campaigns
Focussing On The Recipient
Consensus and Mass Communication
The Role of Theory in Uses and Gratifications Studies
Exposure to Political Content in Newspapers: The impact of cognitive dissonance on readers' selectivity
The Theory of Public Opinion: The concept of the spiral of silence
Media Priming Effects: Accessibility, association, and activation
Focussing On The Effects
Communication and Social Change
Information, Values, and Opinion
Living with Television: The dynamics of the cultivation process
Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action
Mass Media and Differential Growth in Knowledge
Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change
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