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Overview
  
Overview
  
 Mapping the Territory  
  Robert T. Craig, "Communication Theory as a Field," Communication 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 Meaning  Pearce & 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 Theory  Burgoon
  Judee K. Burgoon and Jerold Hale, "Nonverbal Expectancy Violations: Model Elaboration and Application to Immediacy Behaviors," Communication Monographs, Vol. 55, 1988, pp. 58-79.
  
 Interpersonal Deception Theory  Buller & Burgoon
  David B. Buller and Judee K. Burgoon, "Interpersonal Deception Theory," Communication Theory, Vol. 6, 1996, pp. 203-242.
  
 Symbolic Interactionism  Mead
  George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, 1934, pp. 144-166, 173-178.
  
Cognitive Processing
  
 Constructivism  Delia
  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 Theory  Altman & Taylor
  Dalmas Taylor and Irwin Altman, "Communication in Interpersonal Relationships: Social Penetration Processes," in Interpersonal Processes: New Directions in Communication Research, Michael Roloff and Gerald Miller (eds.), Sage, Newbury Park, CA, 1987, pp. 257-277.
  
 Uncertainty Reduction Theory  Berger
  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 Dialectics  Baxter & 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, 1998, pp. 155-183.
  
 The Interactional View  Watzlawick/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 Model  Petty & 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 Theory  Sherif
  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 Theory  Poole
  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 Making  Hirokawa & 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 Theory  Mead
  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 Organizations  Deetz
  Stanley Deetz, Transforming Communication, Transforming Business: Building Responsive and Responsible Workplaces, Hampton, Cresskill, NJ, 1995, pp. 97-126.
  
 Cultural Approach to Organizations  Geertz & 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 Organizations  Weick
  Karl E. Weick, Sensemaking in Organizations, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1995, pp. 1-16.
  
Public Rhetoric
  
 Dramatism  Burke
  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 Paradigm  Fisher
  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 Rhetoric  Aristotle
 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 Studies  Hall
  Stuart Hall, "Ideology and Communication Theory," in Rethinking Communication Theory, Vol. 1, Brenda Dervin, Lawrence Grossberg, Barbara O'Keefe, and Ellen Wartella (eds.), Sage, Newbury Park, CA, 1989, pp. 40-52
  
 Semiotics  Barthes
  Roland Barthes, Mythologies, Annette Lavers (trans.), Hill and Wang, New York, 1972, pp. 129-142.
  
 Technological Determinism  McLuhan
  "Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan, "Playboy Magazine, March, 1969, pp. 53-54, 56, 59-62, 64-66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 158.
  
Media Effects
  
 Agenda Setting Function  McCombs & Shaw
  Maxwell McCombs and Tamara Bell, "The Agenda-Setting Role of Mass Communication," in An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research, Michael Salwen and Donald Stacks (eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1996, pp. 89-105.
  
 Cultivation Theory  Gerbner
  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 Equation  Reeves & 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 Theory  Gudykunst
  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 Theory  Ting-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 Styles  Tannen
  Deborah Tannen, You Just Don't Understand, Balantine, New York, 1990, pp. 23-73.
  
 Muted Group Theory  Kramarae
  Cheris Kramarae, Women and Men Speaking, Newbury House, Rowley, MA, 1981, pp. v-ix, 1-63.
  
 Standpoint Theory  Wood
  Julia T. Wood, "Gender and Moral Voice: Moving from Women's Nature To Standpoint Epistemology," Women's Studies in Communication, Vol. 15, 1993, pp. 1-24.







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