Theories of Human Communication (Preliminary Edition)
THEORIES OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION is considered the seminal text in the field.
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Bonnie Dow Jane Blankenship and Deborah Robson examined women's public-policy discourse between 1991 and 1994 to determine whether a feminine style could be said to exist in contemporary political discourse. They concluded that it does ...
Appropriate for use in communication theory courses at the advanced undergraduate and graduate level, this text offers students insights to understanding the issues and possible answers to the question of what communication is in all forms ...
The first edition broke new ground with its comprehensive discussion of theorizing by communication scholars.
This is the first resource to summarize, in one place, the diversity of theory in the communication field.
This second edition includes 16 new theories and an updated study of the state of family communication. Each chapter follows a common pattern for easy comparison between theories.
This unique volume offers an overview of the diversity in research on communication, including perspectives from biology, sociality, economics, norms and human development.
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