000			01396nam a2200241Ia 4500
005			20250730165054.0
008			250728s9999 xx 000 0 und d
020			_a978-0-495-09587
082			_aC 302.2 L73t
100			_aLittlejohn, Stephen W.
245		0	_aTheories of human communication
250			_a9th ed.
260			_aAustralia
260			_b Thomson Wadsworth
260			_c2008
300			_axvii, 395p.
300			_bIncludes bibliography
520			_aTheories 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.
650			_aCommunication
650			_aCommunication Theories
700			_aFoss, Karena A.
942			_2ddc _cBK
999			_c430 _d430