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Introduction: "Why Study Communication?" Reasons for Learning the Ways of Knowing | |
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Some Direct Talk about How Textbooks Are Written | |
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The Doubting Game and the Believing Game | |
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Stages and Types of Learning | |
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Perry's Harvard Study | |
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Belenky and Colleagues' Women's Ways of Knowing Study | |
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Knowledge in an Ethical Framework | |
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"How do We Learn About Communication?" The Importance of Questioning and Theorizing | |
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Theorizing as an Everyday Occurrence | |
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The Attitude of Availability | |
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The Theory-Building Cycle in Communication | |
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Science as Methodical Inquiry | |
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The Cycle | |
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Evaluating Theories | |
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What Do Communication Theorists Hope to Accomplish (Other Than Building Theories)? | |
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Covering Laws or Rules? | |
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Systems Theory | |
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"When Have We Communicated?" Theorizing Communication | |
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Communication: A Cure? | |
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Defining Communication Realistically | |
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Communication: Continually Changing? | |
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What Is a Process? | |
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The Difficulties of Process Orientation | |
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Mutuality and Transaction | |
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Individualistic Approaches: One to Another? | |
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Mutualistic Approaches: Both Sides Now? | |
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Meaning | |
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Meaning is Processual | |
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Meaning is Personalized | |
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Meaning is Co-Constructed | |
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Meaning is Multidimensional | |
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Intention and the Definition of Communication: A Controversy | |
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Models of Communication | |
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"How Do External Contexts Affect Our Meanings?" Theorizing Contexts | |
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Context | |
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Physical and Psychological Context: Nonverbal Life and the Theory of Immediacy | |
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The Nonverbal Message System: How Is It Theoretically Important? | |
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Immediacy | |
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Physical Settings: Environment and Space | |
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Social Context: Communicators and Technologies in Situations | |
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Social Levels of Communication | |
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A Communication Systems Model of Social Context | |
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"How Do We Become Selves?" Theorizing Personal Experiences | |
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The Assumptions of Experience | |
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Surprise | |
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Sensing Self from "Who You Aren't" | |
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Perception, Not Reception | |
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Perception and Activity | |
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Selectivity | |
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Language In-Forms Personal Experience | |
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The Centrality of the Symbol: The Language Bridge to Social Life | |
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Inner Speech Theory | |
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Linguistic Relativity Theory | |
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Symbolic Interactionism | |
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Cognitive Organization and Planning | |
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Difference(s) | |
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Constructivist Theory | |
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Action Assembly Theory | |
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"How and Why Do We Create Relationships?" Theorizing Interpersonal Communication "Ensnared" in Narcissism? | |
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What Do People Need as Communicators? | |
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Social Exchange Theory: Rewards | |
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American Pragmatism: Social Contact | |
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FIRO Theory: Inclusion, Control, and Affection | |
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Relational/ Interactional Theory | |
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"The Impossibility of Not Communicating" | |
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"The Content and Relationship Levels of Communication" | |
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"The Punctuation of the Sequence of Events" | |
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"Digital and Analogic Theory" | |
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"Symmetrical and Complementary Interaction" | |
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Interpersonal Perception Theory | |
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Rules Theory | |
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The Source of Rules | |
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Defining Rules | |
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Coordinated Management of Meaning Theory | |
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Ethnomethodology: Uncovering Everyday Rules | |
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Dialectical Theory | |
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Dialogic Theory | |
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Dialogic Meeting and a Philosophical Anthropology | |
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The Person-Centered Approach | |
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Hermeneutics and Productive Communication | |
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Dramaturgical Theory | |
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The Theatrical Metaphor | |
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The New Rhetoric of Identification | |
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Impression Management | |
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Symbolic Convergence | |
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"How Do We Coordinate Our Actions toward Common Goals?" Theorizing Organizational Communication | |
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Defining "Organization" is Tougher Than You'd Think | |
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Management-Based Theorizing: Organizations Manage Their Members' Communication | |
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Metaphor: The Machine | |
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Research Assumptions: Quantitative Social Science | |
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Organizations as Producers: Classical Management Theory | |
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Organizations as Collections of Individual Needs: Human Relations/ Resources Theory | |
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Systems-Based Theorizing: Organizations Contain Communication SubSystems | |
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Metaphor: The Organism | |
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Research Assumptions: Quantitative or Qualitative Social Science | |
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Organizations as Sets of Roles: Structural-Functionalist Theory | |
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Organizations as Both Causes and Effects: Structuration Theory | |
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Discourse-Based Theorizing: Organizations are Constituted by Communcation | |
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Metaphor: The Conversation | |
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Research Assumptions: Interpretative/ Qualitative Social Science | |
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Organizations as Conversations: Conversational Autonomy Theory | |
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Organizations as Cultures: Organizational Culture Theory | |
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Organizations as Sites of Power: Democratic Participation Theory | |
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"How Do We Develop Cultural Flexibility?" Theorizing Cultural Communication | |
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Defining Culture | |
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Culture: Basic Theoretical Concepts and Approaches | |
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Cultural Syndromes | |
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Borderlands and Border Crossings | |
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High- and Low-Context Cultures | |
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Theorizing about Cultural Dilemmas | |
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The Role of Theoretical Critique | |
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Articulation Theory: The Dilemma of Power | |
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Feminist Theorizing and Muted Group Theory: The Dilemma of Gender | |
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Afrocentric Theory: The Dilemma of Race | |
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Kinds of Cultural Communication Theories | |
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Emic Theorizing: Revisiting Organizational Culture | |
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Etic Theorizing: Cross-Cultural Contexts | |
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"How Does Rhetoric Change Our Minds?" Theorizing Persuasive Communication | |
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Changing Minds and Minding Persuasion | |
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Mind | |
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Persuasion | |
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Concepts from the Rhetorical Tradition of Persuasion | |
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Classical Rhetorical Theory | |
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Occasions for Rhetoric | |
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Inartistic and Artistic Persuasive Appeals | |
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Types of Artistic Proofs | |
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Concepts from the Interpersonal Tradition of Persuasion | |
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Persuasion as a Helping Relationship | |
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Compliance Gaining Theory | |
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Mutual Persuasion Theory | |
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"How Powerful are Mass Media?" Theorizing Media Systems | |
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Have Media Changed How We Make Psychological Sense? | |
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Medium Theory: Media Extend and Change Our Senses | |
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Medium Theory and the Human Sensorium | |
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Have Media Controlled Our Cultural and Social Behaviors? | |
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Shot with a "Magic Bullet"? | |
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Two-Step and Multi-Step Flow of Influence Theorizing | |
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Uses and Gratifications Theorizing | |
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Cultivation Theorizing | |
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Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, and Critical Theorizing | |
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Are Mass Communication and Interpersonal Communication Different Processes? | |
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Para-social Interaction | |
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Play Theory | |
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Spiral of Silence Theory | |
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The Theory of Mediated Place | |
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"When is the Effective Choice the Ethical Choice?" Theorizing Communication Ethics | |
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The "Whether" Question | |
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Theoretical and Philosophical Foundations for Ethical Communication Decisions | |
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Deontological Approaches | |
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Teleological Approaches | |
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Egalitarian Approaches | |
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Beyond "What Works": Specific Theories of Communication Ethics | |
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Virtue Ethics | |
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Taoist Ethics | |
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Dialogic Ethics | |
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Marketplace of Ideas Ethics | |
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Communitatian Ethics | |
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"Why Does Communication Matter?" The Status of Communication Studies | |
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Studying Communication in a Discipline, an Interdiscipline, or a Field--And Why Does It Matter?" | |
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Studying Communication in a Disciplined Way | |
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Communication Departments in Higher Education | |
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Carving Knowledge into Slices: Who Decides? | |
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Communication Studies Departments and Majors | |
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A Healthy Discipline | |
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Knowing Your Past: A Discipline That Charts Its History | |
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Knowing Your Neighbors: A Discipline of Connections, Not Boundaries | |
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Knowing Your Content: A Discipline with Core Concepts | |
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Knowing Your Potential: A Discipline That Anticipates a Future | |