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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface for Instructors DIVISION ONE: Overview CHAPTER 1 Launching Your Study of Communication Theory WHAT IS A THEORY AND WHAT DOES IT DO? WHAT IS COMMUNICATION? AN ARRANGEMENT OF IDEAS TO AID COMPREHENSION CHAPTER FEATURES TO ENLIVEN THEORY QUESTIONS TO SHARPEN YOUR FOCUS A SECOND LOOK CHAPTER 2 Talk About Theory TWO COMMUNICATION SCHOLARS VIEW A DIEHARD FAN OBJECTIVE OR INTERPRETIVE WORLDVIEWS: SORTING OUT THE LABELS WAYS OF KNOWING: DISCOVERING TRUTH OR CREATING MULTIPLE REALITIES? HUMAN NATURE: DETERMINISM OR FREE WILL? THE HIGHEST VALUE: OBJECTIVITY OR EMANCIPATION? PURPOSE OF THEORY: UNIVERSAL LAWS OR INTERPRETIVE GUIDES? OBJECTIVE OR INTERPRETIVE: WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? PLOTTING THEORIES ON AN OBJECTIVE-INTERPRETIVE SCALE QUESTIONS TO SHARPEN YOUR FOCUS A SECOND LOOK CHAPTER 3 Weighing the Words WHAT MAKES AN OBJECTIVE THEORY GOOD? WHAT MAKES AN INTERPRETIVE THEORY GOOD? CONTESTED TURF AND COMMON GROUND AMONG THEORISTS QUESTIONS TO SHARPEN YOUR FOCUS A SECOND LOOK CHAPTER 4 Mapping the Territory (Seven Traditions in the Field of Communication Theory) THE SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL TRADITION: Communication as Interpersonal Interaction and Influence
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Emory A. Griffin
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Higher Education
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780071086424
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Business, Technology
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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