With more than 300 entries, these two volumes provide a one-stop source for a comprehensive overview of communication theory, offering current descriptions of theories as well as the background issues and concepts that comprise these theories. 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