Theorizing Communication

"The editors’ questions invite readers to connect to the theoretical arguments and assumptions within and across units and move toward connecting communication theory with lived experiences. The connection of communication to lived experiences and the ability of these experiences to inform communication theory are at the heart of Craig and Muller’s text."

• Introduction - Heidi L. Muller and Robert T. CraigUnit I. Historical and Cultural Sources of Communication TheoryIntroduction to Unit I1. Metaphors Concerning Speech in Homer - Rob Wiseman2. The Spiritualist Tradition - John Durham Peters3. The Invention of Communication - Armand Mattelart4. A Cultural Approach to Communication - James W. CareyProjects for Theorizing the Historical and Cultural Sources of Communication TheoryUnit II. Metatheory: Communication Theory as a FieldIntroduction to Unit II5. Communication Theory as a Field - Robert T. CraigProjects for MetatheorizingUnit III. The Rhetorical TraditionIntroduction to Unit III6. Gorgias - Plato7. Rhetoric - Aristotle8. A Rhetoric of Motives - Kenneth Burke9. Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric - Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. GriffinProjects for Rhetorical TheorizingUnit IV. The Semiotic TraditionIntroduction to Unit IV10. The Abuse of Words - John Locke11. What Is a Sign? - Charles Sanders Peirce12. The Object of Linguistics - Ferdinand de Saussure13. The Photographic Message - Roland Barthes14. Communication With Aliens - John Durham PetersProjects for Semiotic TheorizingUnit V. The Phenomenological TraditionIntroduction to Unit V15. The Problem of Experiencing Someone Else - Edmund Husserl16. Dialogue - Martin Buber17. The Hermeneutical Experience - Hans-Georg Gadamer18. Deconstructing Communication - Briankle G. ChangProjects for Phenomenological TheorizingUnit VI. The Cybernetic TraditionIntroduction to Unit VI19. Cybernetics in History - Norbert Wiener20. Some Tentative Axioms of Communication - Paul Watzlawick, Janet Helmick Beavin, and Don D. Jackson21. The Limited Capacity Model of Mediated Message Processing - Annie Lang22. What Is Communication? - Niklas LuhmannProjects for Cybernetic TheorizingUnit VII. The Sociopsychological TraditionIntroduction to Unit VII23. Social Communication - Carl Hovland24. Some Explorations in Initial Interaction and Beyond - Charles R. Berger and Richard J. Calabrese25. Social Cognitive Theory of Mass Communication - Albert Bandura26. The Small Group Should Be the Fundamental Unit of Communication Research - Marshall Scott PooleProjects for Sociopsychological TheorizingUnit VIII. The Sociocultural TraditionIntroduction to Unit VIII27. The Social Foundations and Functions of Thought and Communication - George Herbert Mead28. The Mode of Information and Postmodernity - Mark Poster29. Communication as the Modality of Structuration - James R. Taylor, Carole Groleau, Lorna Heaton, and Elizabeth Van Every30. Good to Talk? - Deborah CameronProjects for Sociocultural TheorizingUnit IX. The Critical TraditionIntroduction to Unit IX31. The German Ideology - Karl Marx and Frederick Engels32. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno33. Truth and Society: The Discursive Redemption of Factual Claims to Validity - Jürgen Habermas34. Systematically Distorted Communication and Discursive Closure - Stanley A. Deetz35. Paris Iis Always More Than Paris - Sue Curry JansenProjects for Critical TheorizingConcluding Reflections - Robert T. Craig and Heidi L. MullerIndex