Theories Of Human Communication With Infotrac

by Littlejohn, Stephen W.; Foss, Karen A.

• ISBN13: 9780534638733
• ISBN10: 0534638732
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-14
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

THEORIES OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION is considered the seminal text in the field. Littlejohn and Foss present the range of communication theoriescurrently available in the discipline, organizing them according to the scholarly traditions and contexts from which they emerge. Clear andaccessible writing, charts that summarize the relationships among theories, and sections devoted to applications and implications help positiontheories within the discipline as a whole.

Table of Contents

PART I Foundations	1	(61)
Communication Theory and Scholarship	2	(14)
The Academic Study of Communication	3	(1)
Introducing Communication Theory	4	(2)
Developing Theories	6	(4)
A Basic Model of Inquiry	6	(1)
Types of Scholarship	7	(1)
Making Communication Theories	8	(2)
Communication Theory as a Field	10	(2)
Levels of Communication	11	(1)
The Intellectual Structure of the Communication Field	12	(1)
Defining Communication	12	(1)
Notes	13	(3)
The Idea of Theory	16	(18)
Beginning to Know Theory	17	(1)
Basic Elements of Theory	18	(5)
Philosophical Assumptions	18	(3)
Concepts	21	(1)
Explanations	22	(1)
Principles	22	(1)
Theoretical Ideals	23	(6)
Nomothetic Theory	23	(3)
Practical Theory	26	(3)
Evaluating Communication Theory	29	(2)
Theoretical Scope	29	(1)
Appropriateness	29	(1)
Heuristic Value	30	(1)
Validity	30	(1)
Parsimony	30	(1)
Openness	30	(1)
Looking Forward	31	(1)
Notes	31	(3)
Traditions of Communication Theory	34	(27)
Framing Communication Theory	34	(1)
The Semiotic Tradition	35	(3)
Key Ideas of the Semiotic Tradition	35	(2)
Variations in the Semiotic Tradition	37	(1)
The Phenomenological Tradition	38	(2)
Key Ideas of the Phenomenological Tradition	38	(1)
Variations in the Phenomenological Tradition	39	(1)
The Cybernetic Tradition	40	(2)
Key Ideas of the Cybernetic Tradition	40	(2)
Variations in the Cybernetic Tradition	42	(1)
The Sociopsychological Tradition	42	(2)
Key Ideas of the Sociopsychological Tradition	43	(1)
Variations in the Sociopsychological Tradition	44	(1)
The Sociocultural Tradition	44	(2)
Key Ideas of the Sociocultural Tradition	45	(1)
Variations in the Sociocultural Tradition	45	(1)
The Critical Tradition	46	(4)
Key Ideas of the Critical Tradition	47	(1)
Variations in the Critical Tradition	47	(3)
The Rhetorical Tradition	50	(3)
Key Ideas of the Rhetorical Tradition	50	(1)
Variations in the Rhetorical Tradition	51	(2)
Expanding Contexts for Communication	53	(1)
Notes	54	(7)
PART II Theories	61	(280)
The Communicator	62	(37)
The Sociopsychological Tradition	65	(9)
Traits	65	(2)
Cognition and Information Processing	67	(7)
Reflections on the Sociopsychological Tradition	74	(1)
The Cybernetic Tradition	74	(8)
Information-Integration Theory	74	(3)
Consistency Theories	77	(3)
Problematic Integration Theory	80	(1)
Reflections on the Cybernetic Tradition	81	(1)
The Sociocultural Tradition	82	(6)
Symbolic Interaction and the Development of Self	82	(1)
Social Construction of Self	83	(2)
The Social Construction of Emotion	85	(1)
The Presentational Self	86	(2)
Reflections on the Sociocultural Tradition	88	(1)
The Critical Tradition	88	(4)
Standpoint Theory	89	(1)
Identity as Constructed and Performed	90	(1)
Queer Theory	90	(2)
Reflections on the Critical Tradition	92	(1)
Applications & Implications	92	(3)
Notes	95	(4)
The Message	99	(43)
The Semiotic Tradition	101	(7)
Symbol Theory: Susanne Langer	101	(2)
Classical Foundations of Language	103	(1)
Theories of Nonverbal Signs	104	(4)
Reflections on the Semiotic Tradition	108	(1)
The Sociocultural Tradition	108	(7)
Speech Act Theory	108	(3)
Kenneth Burke's Theory of Identification	111	(2)
Language and Gender	113	(1)
Reflections on the Sociocultural Tradition	114	(1)
The Sociopsychological Tradition	115	(12)
Action Assembly Theory	115	(2)
Strategy Choice Models	117	(5)
Message Design Models	122	(3)
Semantic Meaning Theory	125	(2)
Reflections on the Sociopsychological Tradition	127	(1)
The Phenomenological Tradition	127	(6)
Paul Ricoeur	129	(1)
Stanley Fish	130	(1)
Hans-Georg Gadamer	131	(1)
Reflections on the Phenomenological Tradition	132	(1)
Applications & Implications	133	(4)
Notes	137	(5)
The Conversation	142	(44)
The Sociopsychological Tradition	144	(10)
Managing Uncertainty and Anxiety	144	(3)
Accommodation and Adaptation	147	(6)
Reflections on the Sociopsychological Tradition	153	(1)
The Sociocultural Tradition	154	(15)
Symbolic Interactionism	154	(3)
Symbolic Convergence Theory	157	(1)
Conversation Analysis	158	(9)
Face Negotiation Theory	167	(2)
Reflections on the Sociocultural Tradition	169	(1)
The Cybernetic Tradition	169	(5)
The Coordinated Management of Meaning	170	(4)
Reflections on the Cybernetic Tradition	174	(1)
The Critical Tradition	174	(3)
Language-Centered Perspective on Culture	174	(1)
Invitational Rhetoric	175	(2)
Reflections on the Critical Tradition	177	(1)
Applications & Implications	177	(4)
Notes	181	(5)
The Relationship	186	(27)
The Cybernetic Tradition	189	(2)
Relational Patterns of Interaction	189	(1)
Reflections on the Cybernetic Tradition	190	(1)
The Sociopsychological Tradition	191	(5)
Relational Schemas in the Family	191	(3)
Social Penetration Theory	194	(2)
Reflections on the Sociopsychological Tradition	196	(1)
The Sociocultural Tradition	196	(8)
Bakhtin's Theory of Dialogics	196	(3)
A Dialectical Theory of Relationships	199	(3)
Communication Privacy Management	202	(2)
Reflections on the Sociopsychological Tradition	204	(1)
The Phenomenological Tradition	204	(3)
Carl Rogers	204	(2)
Martin Buber	206	(1)
Reflections on the Phenomenological Tradition	207	(1)
Applications & Implications	207	(3)
Notes	210	(3)
The Group	213	(26)
The Sociopsychological Tradition	216	(2)
Interaction Process Analysis	216	(2)
Reflections on the Sociopsychological Tradition	218	(1)
The Cybernetic Tradition	218	(7)
Bona Fide Group Theory	218	(1)
Input-Process-Output Model	219	(2)
Fisher's Interaction Analysis	221	(2)
Effective Intercultural Work Group Theory	223	(2)
Reflections on the Cybernetic Tradition	225	(1)
The Sociocultural Tradition	225	(8)
The Structurational Perspective	225	(5)
Functional Theory	230	(2)
Groupthink Theory	232	(1)
Reflections on the Sociocultural Tradition	233	(1)
Applications & Implications	233	(3)
Notes	236	(3)
The Organization	239	(34)
The Sociopsychological Tradition	242	(3)
Weber's Theory of Bureaucracy	242	(2)
Likert's Four Systems	244	(1)
Reflections on the Sociopsychological Tradition	245	(1)
The Cybernetic Tradition	245	(4)
The Process of Organizing	245	(2)
Network Theory	247	(2)
Reflections on the Cybernetic Tradition	249	(1)
The Sociocultural Tradition	249	(12)
Conversation and Text in the Process of Organizing	250	(2)
Structuration Theory	252	(2)
Organizational Control Theory	254	(4)
Organizational Culture	258	(2)
Reflections on the Sociocultural Tradition	260	(1)
The Critical Tradition	261	(5)
Dennis Mumby's Hermeneutic of Suspicion	261	(1)
Deetz on Managerialism and Organizational Democracy	262	(1)
Gender and Race in Organizational Communication	263	(2)
Reflections on the Critical Tradition	265	(1)
Applications & Implications	266	(3)
Notes	269	(4)
The Media	273	(27)
The Semiotic Tradition	275	(2)
Jean Baudrillard and the Semiotics of Media	276	(1)
Reflections on the Semiotic Tradition	277	(1)
The Sociocultural Tradition	277	(7)
Medium Theory	277	(2)
The Agenda-Setting Function	279	(3)
Social Action Media Studies	282	(2)
Reflections on the Sociocultural Tradition	284	(1)
The Sociopsychological Tradition	284	(6)
The Effects Tradition	284	(2)
Uses, Gratifications, and Dependency	286	(2)
Cultivation Theory	288	(1)
Reflections on the Sociopsychological Tradition	289	(1)
The Cybernetic Tradition	290	(2)
Public Opinion and the Spiral of Silence	290	(1)
Reflections on the Cybernetic Tradition	291	(1)
The Critical Tradition	292	(2)
Branches of Critical Media Theory	292	(1)
Reflections on the Critical Tradition	293	(1)
Applications & Implications	294	(2)
Notes	296	(4)
Culture and Society	300	(41)
The Semiotic Tradition	302	(4)
Linguistic Relativity	302	(1)
Elaborated and Restricted Codes	303	(3)
Reflections on the Semiotic Tradition	306	(1)
The Cybernetic Tradition	306	(4)
Dynamic Social Impact Theory	306	(2)
The Diffusion of Information and Influence	308	(2)
Reflections on the Cybernetic Tradition	310	(1)
The Phenomenological Tradition	310	(2)
Cultural Hermeneutics	310	(2)
Reflections on the Phenomenological Tradition	312	(1)
The Sociocultural Tradition	312	(4)
Ethnography of Communication	312	(3)
Performance Ethnography	315	(1)
Reflections on the Sociocultural Tradition	316	(1)
The Critical Tradition	316	(17)
Modernism	317	(7)
Postmodernism	324	(5)
Poststructuralism and the Work of Michel Foucault	329	(2)
Postcolonialism	331	(1)
Reflections on the Critical Tradition	332	(1)
Applications & Implications	333	(2)
Notes	335	(6)
PART III Integration	341	(9)
Making Theories Personal	342	(8)
Notes	349	(1)
Bibliography	350	(31)
Index	381