Theories of human communication

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Australia ; Thomson Wadsworth; 2008Edition: 9th edDescription: xvii, 395p; Includes bibliographyISBN:
  • 978-0-495-09587
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • C 302.2 L73t
Summary: Theories of Human Communication, which is now nearly 30 years old, has literally grown up with the field. Stephen started writing the book when he was an assistant professor back in 1974. At that time, there was only one communica-tion theory text, which was a reader, and we had nothing like the landmark text on theories of personality produced in psychology by Hall and Lindsay. Stephen felt it was time for our field to move in that direction, which motivated the first edition of this text. At that time, communication theory was largely an amalgam of works borrowed from information theory, social psychology, and to a limited extent, linguistics. In those years, one could not have identified the rich array of traditions that has rightfully informed the field in the 1980s, 1990s, and beyond.
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Theories of Human Communication, which is now nearly 30 years old, has literally grown up with the field. Stephen started writing the book when he was an assistant professor back in 1974. At that time, there was only one communica-tion theory text, which was a reader, and we had nothing like the landmark text on theories of personality produced in psychology by Hall and Lindsay. Stephen felt it was time for our field to move in that direction, which motivated the first edition of this text. At that time, communication theory was largely an amalgam of works borrowed from information theory, social psychology, and to a limited extent, linguistics. In those years, one could not have identified the rich array of traditions that has rightfully informed the field in the 1980s, 1990s, and beyond.

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