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Theory, Vol. 9, 1999, pp. 119-161.
Talk
About Theory
James A. Anderson, Communication Theory: Epistemological Foundations,
Guilford, New York, 1996, pp. 1-46.
Interpersonal Communication
Interpersonal Messages
Coordinated Management of MeaningPearce
& Cronen
W. Barnett Pearce, "A Sailing Guide for Social Constructionists" in Social
Approaches to Communication, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz (ed.), Guilford Press,
New York, 1995, pp. 88-113.
Expectancy
Violations TheoryBurgoon
Judee K. Burgoon and Jerold Hale, "Nonverbal Expectancy Violations: Model
Elaboration and Application to Immediacy Behaviors," Communication
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Interpersonal Deception TheoryBuller
& Burgoon
David B. Buller and Judee K. Burgoon, "Interpersonal Deception Theory," Communication Theory, Vol. 6, 1996, pp. 203-242.
Symbolic
InteractionismMead
George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society, University of Chicago,
Chicago, 1934, pp. 144-166, 173-178.
Cognitive Processing
ConstructivismDelia
Brant Burleson and Scott Caplan, "Cognitive Complexity," in Communication
and Personality: Trait Perspectives, James McCroskey, John Daly, and
Matthew Martin (eds.), Hampton Press, Cresskill, NJ, 1998, pp. 233-286.
Relationship Development
Social Penetration TheoryAltman
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Dalmas Taylor and Irwin Altman, "Communication in Interpersonal Relationships:
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Uncertainty
Reduction TheoryBerger
Charles R. Berger, "Communicating Under Uncertainty," in Interpersonal
Processes: New Directions in Communication Research, Michael Roloff & Gerald Miller (eds.), Sage, Newbury Park, CA, 1987, pp. 39-62.
Relationship Maintenance
Relational DialecticsBaxter
& Montgomery
Barbara M. Montgomery and Leslie A. Baxter, "Dialogism and Relational
Dialectics," in Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships,
Montgomery and Baxter (eds.), Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ,
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The
Interactional ViewWatzlawick/Palo Alto Group
Janet Beavin Bavelas, "Research into the Pragmatics of Human Communication," Journal of Strategic and Systemic Therapies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1992,
pp. 15-29.
Influence
Elaboration Likelihood ModelPetty
& Cacioppi
Richard Petty and John Cacioppo, Communication and Persuasion: Central
and Peripheral Routes to Attitude Change, Springer-Verlag, New York,
1986, pp. 1-24.
Social
Judgment TheorySherif
Carolyn Sherif, Muzafer Sherif, and Roger Nebergall, Attitude and
Attitude Change: The Social Judgment-Involvement Approach, W.B. Saunders,
Philadelphia, 1965, pp. 219-246.
Group and Public Communication
Group Decision Making
Adaptive
Structuration TheoryPoole
Marshall Scott Poole, "Group Communication and the Structuring Process,"
in Small Group Communication: Theory and Practice, 7th edition,
Robert Cathcart, Larry Samovar, and Linda D. Henmans (eds.), Brown and
Benchmark, Madison, WI, 1996, pp. 85-95.
Functional Perspective on Group
Decision MakingHirokawa & Gouran
Dennis Gouran, Randy Kirokawa, Kelly Julian, and Geoff Leatham, "The
Evolution and Current Status of the Functional Perspective on Communication
in Decision-Making and Problem Solving Groups," in Communication Yearbook
16, Stanley Deetz (ed.), Sage, Newbury Park, CA, 1993, pp. 573-600.
Symbolic
Convergence TheoryMead
Ernest Bormann, John Cragan, and Donald Shields, "In Defense of Symbolic
Convergence Theory: A Look at the Theory and its Criticisms After Two
Decades, "Communication Theory, Vol. 4, 1994, pp. 259-294.
Organizational Communication
Critical
Theory of Communication Approach to OrganizationsDeetz
Stanley Deetz, Transforming Communication, Transforming Business:
Building Responsive and Responsible Workplaces, Hampton, Cresskill,
NJ, 1995, pp. 97-126.
Cultural Approach to OrganizationsGeertz
& Pacanowsky
Michael Pacanowsky, "Communication in the Empowering Organization," in Communication Yearbook 11, James Anderson (ed.), Sage, Newbury
Park, CA, 1988, pp. 356-379.
Informational
Systems Approach to OrganizationsWeick
Karl E. Weick, Sensemaking in Organizations, Sage, Thousand Oaks,
CA, 1995, pp. 1-16.
Public Rhetoric
DramatismBurke
Kenneth Burke, "On Human Behavior Considered Dramatistically," in Permanence
and Change, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1965, pp. 274-294; Kenneth
Burke, "Definition of a Man," in Language as Symbolic Action, University
of California, Berkeley, 1966, pp. 3-24.
Narrative
ParadigmFisher
Walter Fisher, Human Communication as Narration: Toward a Philosophy
of Reason, Value, and Action, University of South Carolina, Columbia,
SC, 1987, pp. 57-84, 105-123.
The
RhetoricAristotle
Aristotle, On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civil Discourse, George A.
Kennedy (ed. and trans.), Oxford University, New York, 1991, pp. 25-51.
Mass Communication
Media and Culture
Cultural
StudiesHall
Stuart Hall, "Ideology and Communication Theory," in Rethinking Communication
Theory, Vol. 1, Brenda Dervin, Lawrence Grossberg, Barbara O'Keefe,
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SemioticsBarthes
Roland Barthes, Mythologies, Annette Lavers (trans.), Hill and
Wang, New York, 1972, pp. 129-142.
Maxwell McCombs and Tamara Bell, "The Agenda-Setting Role of Mass Communication,"
in An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research,
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Hillsdale, NJ, 1996, pp. 89-105.
Cultivation
TheoryGerbner
George Gerbner, Larry Gross, Michael Morgan, and Nancy Signorelli, "Living
With Television: The Dynamics of the Cultivation Process" in Perspectives
on Media Effects, Jennings Bryant and Dolf Zillman (eds.), Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1986, pp. 17-41.
The Media EquationReeves
& Nass
Clifford Nass and J.S. Steuer, "Voices, Boxes, and Sources of Messages:
Computers and Social Actors," Human Communication Research, Vol.
19, 1993, pp. 504-527.
Cultural Context
Intercultural Communication
Anxiety/Uncertainty
Management TheoryGudykunst
William B. Gudykunst, "Anxiety/Uncertainty Management (AUM) Theory: Current
Status," in Intercultural Communication Theory, R.L. Wiseman (ed.),
Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1995, pp. 8-58.
Face
Negotiation TheoryTing-Toomey
Stella Ting-Toomey and Atsuko Jurogi, "Facework Competence in Intercultural
Conflict: An Updated Face-Negotiation Theory," in International Journal
of Intercultural Relations, Vol. 22, 1998, pp. 187-225.
Speech
Codes Theory (The Ethnography of Communication)Philipsen
Gerry Philipsen, "A Theory of Speech Codes," in Developing Communication
Theory, Gerry Philipsen and Terrence Albrecht (eds.), SUNY, Albany,
NY, 1997, pp. 119-156.
Gender and Communication
Genderlect
StylesTannen
Deborah Tannen, You Just Don't Understand, Balantine, New York,
1990, pp. 23-73.
Muted
Group TheoryKramarae
Cheris Kramarae, Women and Men Speaking, Newbury House, Rowley,
MA, 1981, pp. v-ix, 1-63.
Standpoint
TheoryWood
Julia T. Wood, "Gender and Moral Voice: Moving from Women's Nature To
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