Explaining communication
Subtitle: contemporary theories and exemplars
By: edited by Bryan B. Whaley, Wendy Samter.
Contributors: Whaley, Bryan B.; Samter, Wendy.
Series: Lea's communication series
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Subjects: Communication
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The nature and evaluation of theory / Stephen W. Littlejohn; title: Discourse and identity : language or talk? / Karen Tracy; title: Nonverbal communication / Walid A. Afifi; title: Impression formation / Charles Pavitt; title: Communication theory and the concept of goal / Steven R. Wilson; title: Constructivism : a general theory of communication skill / Brant R. Burleson; title: Aggressiveness communication / Andrew Rancer and Anne Mayden Nicotera; title: Plans, planning, and communication effectiveness / Charles R. Berger; title: Formulating and producing verbal and nonverbal messages : an action assembly theory / John O. Greene; title: Problematic integration theory / Austin S. Babrow; title: A theory of communication and uncertainty management / Dale E. Brashers; title: Brown and Levinson's politeness theory / Daena Goldsmith; title: Accounts / Michael Cody and Debra Dunn; title: Communication privacy management theory / Mary Claire Morr and Sandra Petronio; title: Social dialectics : the contradictions of relating / Leslie Baxter and Dawn O. Braithwaite; title: Communication accommodation theory / Howard Giles and Tania Ogay; title: Relational communication : as viewed from the pragmatic perspective / John Courtright; title: Conversational Interaction : understanding how family members talk through cancer / Wayne A. Beach; title: Pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation / Frans H. van Eemeren; title: Tides in the ocean : a layered approach to communication and culture / Sandra L. Faulkner and Michael L. Hecht; title: Historical contexts and trends in development of communication theory / Jennings Bryant & Dorina Miron.