Communication Theory

by Peter J Schulz

• ISBN13: 9781848601130
• ISBN10: 1848601131
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-12
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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

Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.