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Theorizing communication : readings across traditions

Print Book, English, ©2007
Sage Publications, Los Angeles, ©2007
History
xviii, 525 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781412952378, 1412952379
237917938
Introductionix
Heidi L. Muller
Robert T. Craig
UNIT I. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL SOURCES OF COMMUNICATION THEORY
1(54)
Introduction to Unit I
Metaphors Concerning Speech in Homer
7(12)
Rob Wiseman
The Spiritualist Tradition
19(10)
John Durham Peters
The Invention of Communication
29(8)
Armand Mattelart
A Cultural Approach to Communication
37(18)
James W. Carey
Projects for Theorizing the Historical and Cultural Sources of Communication Theory
51(4)
UNIT II. METATHEORY
55(48)
Introduction to Unit II
Communication Theory as a Field
63(40)
Robert T. Craig
Projects for Metatheorizing
99(4)
UNIT III. THE RHETORICAL TRADITION
103(60)
Introduction to Unit III
Gorgias
107(14)
Plato
Rhetoric
121(10)
Aristotle
A Rhetoric of Motives
131(12)
Kenneth Burke
Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric
143(20)
Sonja K. Foss
Cindy L. Griffin
Projects for Rhetorical Theorizing
159(4)
UNIT IV. THE SEMIOTIC TRADITION
163(54)
Introduction to Unit IV
The Abuse of Words
169(8)
John Locke
What Is a Sign?
177(6)
Charles Sanders Peirce
The Object of Linguistics
183(8)
Ferdinand de Saussure
The Photographic Message
191(10)
Roland Barthes
Communication With Aliens
201(16)
John Durham Peters
Projects for Semiotic Theorizing
213(4)
UNIT V. THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL TRADITION
217(44)
Introduction to Unit V
The Problem of Experiencing Someone Else
223(2)
Edmund Husserl
Dialogue
225(14)
Martin Buber
The Hermeneutical Experience
239(12)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Deconstructing Communication
251(10)
Briankle G. Chang
Projects for Phenomenological Theorizing
257(4)
UNIT VI. THE CYBERNETIC TRADITION
261(52)
Introduction to Unit VI
Cybernetics in History
267(8)
Norbert Wiener
Some Tentative Axioms of Communication
275(14)
Paul Watzlawick
Janet Helmick Beavin
Don D. Jackson
The Limited Capacity Model of Mediated Message Processing
289(12)
Annie Lang
What Is Communication?
301(12)
Niklas Luhmann
Projects for Cybernetic Theorizing
309(4)
UNIT VII. THE SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL TRADITION
313(52)
Introduction to Unit VII
Social Communication
319(6)
Carl Hovland
Some Explorations in Initial Interaction and Beyond: Toward a Developmental Theory of Interpersonal Communication
325(14)
Charles R. Berger
Richard J. Calabrese
Social Cognitive Theory of Mass Communication
339(18)
Albert Bandura
The Small Group Should Be the Fundamental Unit of Communication Research
357(8)
Marshall Scott Poole
Projects for Sociopsychological Theorizing
361(4)
UNIT VIII. THE SOCIOCULTURAL TRADITION
365(60)
Introduction to Unit VIII
The Social Foundations and Functions of Thought and Communication
371(6)
George Herbert Mead
The Mode of Information and Postmodernity
377(14)
Mark Poster
Communication as the Modality of Structuration
391(14)
James R. Taylor
Carole Groleau
Lorna Heaton
Elizabeth Van Every
Good to Talk?
405(20)
Deborah Cameron
Projects for Sociocultural Theorizing
421(4)
UNIT IX. THE CRITICAL TRADITION
425(78)
Introduction to Unit IX
The German Ideology
433(4)
Karl Marx
Frederick Engels
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
437(10)
Max Horkheimer
Theodor W. Adorno
Truth and Society: The Discursive Redemption of Factual Claims to Validity
447(10)
Jurgen Habermas
Systematically Distorted Communication and Discursive Closure
457(16)
Stanley A. Deetz
Paris Is Always More Than Paris
473(22)
Sue Curry Jansen
Projects for Critical Theorizing
491(4)
Concluding Reflections
495(8)
Robert T. Craig
Heidi L. Muller
Author Index503(8)
Subject Index511(14)
About the Editors525