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A First Look at Communication Theory, 5/e

Em Griffin, Wheaton College

ISBN: 007248392x
Copyright year: 2003

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"Conversations with Communication Theorists"
Companion video cassette and Student CD-ROM for the First Look text

Conversations with Communication Theoristsisis a 110-minute video of thirteen separate interviews that Em conducted with the authors of several of the communication theories featured in the book.

Coordinated Management of Meaning

	"Do you have to give up your belief in a divine being, a transcendent story, or a master narrative if you're a CMM theorist? My answer is, 'No, you don't.' But what you do have to do is to start giving attention to the kind of social world that you create when you affirm that belief in certain ways." Barnett Pearce


Expectancy Violations Theory

	"A theory is nothing more than your set of systematic hunches about the way things operate. The point of trying to test theory is to see if your hunches work out." Judee Burgoon


Interpersonal Deception Theory

	"Ekman has written, "People overestimate the extent to which their deception benefits other people." I think that's probably true. There's a lot of instrumental value to me if I'm the deceiver." David Buller


Constructivism

Jim Applegate, Brandt Burleson, Jessie Delia	"Some people stay open; they have new experiences. As those experiences reshape their constructs, they change." Jesse Delia


Uncertainty Reduction Theory

	"Part of the use of ambiguity in the creation of theory is to hedge against the potential of being wrong. You can't take that attitude and do social science well . . . You've got to be willing to risk being wrong." Chuck Berger


Relational Dialectics

	"We are subject to cultural messages that tend to portray relationships as much simpler than they are, much more idealized than they are, much more smoothly unfolding than they are. Rather than aim for that ideal, I think we should enjoy the messiness of them." Barbara Montgomery


Functional Perspective on Group Decision Making

	"If you and I went to Las Vegas armed with the knowledge of the functional theory, and we used our knowledge of the theory to predict whether the group would make a good decision or a bad decision, we would win more times than we would lose . . . Seventy percent of the time we would be correct and thirty percent of the time we would be wrong." Randy Hirokawa


Adaptive Structuration Theory

	"The core idea of this theory is that members in groups are creating the group as they act within it. A lot of times people in groups build up structures or working arrangements that are very uncomfortable for them and they don't realize they are doing it." Scott Poole


Critical Theory of Communication Approach to Organizations

	"A lot of managers talk about "thinking out of the box," but they don't understand the communication process by which that happens. You do not think out of the box by commanding the box! You think out of the box precisely by bringing ideas together that don't allow dominant ideas to continue to dominate." Stan Deetz


NEW! Agenda-Setting Theory

	"If you are exposed enough to a particular agenda whether it's a news agenda or the Jay Leno agenda or whatever... and if that resonates, people are going to respond. They're going to perceive those elements, whatever they are, as important." Max McCombs


Face Negotiation Theory

	"We can never capture the immense diversity of human behavior in the broad label of this big colossal concept called the Mexican culture of the U.S. culture." Stella Ting-Toomey


Speech Codes Theory (The Ethnography of Communication)

	"If you look at most introductory books on interpersonal communication you very likely will find a part that deals with self-disclosure--how to reveal the self . . . If a traditional Sioux were to write a book on interpersonal communication it would be very different. There would be a whole chapter on pledges, promises and vows." Gerry Philipsen



NEW! Muted Group Theory
	"Anyone who wants to challenge some of those established practices and take a look at unequal treatment can certainly use that term [feminist]." Cheris Kramarae

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