• Published by Sage Publications

With more than 300 entries, these two volumes provide a one-stop source for a comprehensive overview of the communication theory field. The Encyclopedia of Communication Theory offers current descriptions of the theories that explain numerous aspects of communication and presents the background issues and concepts that comprise these theories. Focusing exclusively on communication theory, this is the first resource to summarize, in one place, the diversity of theory in the communication field. Key Themes:

• Applications and Contexts
• Critical Orientations
• Cultural Orientations
• Cybernetic and Systems Orientations
• Feminist Orientations
• Group and Organizational Concepts
• Information, Media, and Communication Technology
• International and Global Concepts
• Interpersonal Concepts
• Non-Western Orientations
• Paradigms, Traditions, and Schools
• Philosophical Orientations
• Psycho-Cognitive Orientations
• Rhetorical Orientations
• Semiotic, Linguistic, and Discursive Orientations
• Social/Interactional Orientations
• Theory, Metatheory, Methodology, and Inquiry

• Published/Released: October 2009
• ISBN 13: 9781412959193
• ISBN 10: 1412959195
• Product number: 249694
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