Donal Carbaugh's studies of various cultures—from the Blackfeet in Montana to the television program Donahue—exemplify interpretive work. Using the theory of speech codes (chapter 4), which seeks to understand the ...
New for the ninth edition are special boxed sections containing quotations from theorists explaining what they would like students to know about their work. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
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 ...
... “Coca-Colonization and Hybridization of Diets among the Tz'utujil Maya,” Ecology of Food and Nutrition 50 (2011): 297–318; Karen Tranberg Hansen, “Colonialism and Imperialism,” (Lovetoknow Corp, n.d.), Date accessed: Dec.
This is one of the most demanding courses for Communication users, and THEORIES OF COMMUNICATION is considered the seminal text in the field. Littlejohn presents theories in a clear and...
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 ...
Provides a variety of tools to help understand and apply communication theory.
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.
A broad survey of theories across the field, the text provides undergraduates with an understanding of the many facets of the communication field and graduate students with a foundation for advanced study.