Communication: An IntroductionSAGE, 2000 M02 11 - 219 pages Written as an introduction for beginning students, this book offers a thorough, yet lively, overview of human communication in all its aspects. Accessibly written and assuming no prior knowledge of the discipline Communication: An Introduction: offers a thorough, yet lively, examination of all aspects of human communication, including: a summary of its nature, form and function; a detailed analysis of all the levels of communication; a description and overview of the different traditions of communication studies; and a consideration of the future of communication - as a phenomenon and as a field of research. |
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... characterized along more than one dimension at a time . We must be able to distinguish not only between men and women , young and old , but also between young men and old women etc. What we need is a typology , and the corresponding ...
... characterized along more than one dimension at a time . We must be able to distinguish not only between men and women , young and old , but also between young men and old women etc. What we need is a typology , and the corresponding ...
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... characterized primarily by conflict , or primarily by consensus . Adherents of the former view hold that all societies are at bottom characterized by conflict , often between classes of people located at different positions within the ...
... characterized primarily by conflict , or primarily by consensus . Adherents of the former view hold that all societies are at bottom characterized by conflict , often between classes of people located at different positions within the ...
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... characterized by an overriding consensus about at least some basic values and what may be called a fair distribution of those values within the population . These two basic ways of regarding society may be combined with each one of the ...
... characterized by an overriding consensus about at least some basic values and what may be called a fair distribution of those values within the population . These two basic ways of regarding society may be combined with each one of the ...
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... characterized by conflict or consensus alone . On the contrary . Most - not to say all - societies are characterized by both conflict and consensus . Similarly , all individuals are both subjects and objects . Actually , the really ...
... characterized by conflict or consensus alone . On the contrary . Most - not to say all - societies are characterized by both conflict and consensus . Similarly , all individuals are both subjects and objects . Actually , the really ...
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... characterized by qualitative , quantitative and probabilistic operations , respectively . Although , explicitly or implicitly , all empirical disciplines draw on one or more of these formal disciplines , they need not concern us much ...
... characterized by qualitative , quantitative and probabilistic operations , respectively . Although , explicitly or implicitly , all empirical disciplines draw on one or more of these formal disciplines , they need not concern us much ...
Contents
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XXIII | 35 |
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XXV | 40 |
XXVI | 42 |
XXVII | 43 |
LXII | 111 |
LXIII | 114 |
LXIV | 118 |
LXV | 120 |
LXVII | 121 |
LXVIII | 123 |
LXIX | 126 |
LXX | 127 |
XXVIII | 44 |
XXIX | 46 |
XXX | 48 |
XXXI | 50 |
XXXII | 53 |
XXXIII | 55 |
XXXIV | 56 |
XXXV | 60 |
XXXVI | 61 |
XXXVII | 62 |
XXXVIII | 63 |
XXXIX | 67 |
XL | 68 |
XLI | 72 |
XLII | 73 |
XLIII | 76 |
XLIV | 80 |
XLV | 82 |
XLVI | 84 |
XLVII | 87 |
XLVIII | 88 |
LI | 90 |
LII | 91 |
LIII | 93 |
LIV | 95 |
LV | 97 |
LVI | 98 |
LVII | 100 |
LVIII | 101 |
LIX | 103 |
LX | 107 |
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