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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... presented the basic principles for classification . But it was only some 2,000 years later that Linnaeus ( 1707-78 ) presented the typologies for plants and animals which still form the basis for the generally accepted terminology in ...
... presented the basic principles for classification . But it was only some 2,000 years later that Linnaeus ( 1707-78 ) presented the typologies for plants and animals which still form the basis for the generally accepted terminology in ...
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... presented about two decades ago by an Anglo- American team of sociologists , Gibson Burrell and Gareth Morgan , in a book about sociological ' paradigms ' ( roughly : traditions of scholarship and science ) . Discussing a number of more ...
... presented about two decades ago by an Anglo- American team of sociologists , Gibson Burrell and Gareth Morgan , in a book about sociological ' paradigms ' ( roughly : traditions of scholarship and science ) . Discussing a number of more ...
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... presented only with a number of reservations . The levels dimension , for instance , is much more clearly defined than are the institutional and communication - related dimensions . The most important reservation , however , concerns ...
... presented only with a number of reservations . The levels dimension , for instance , is much more clearly defined than are the institutional and communication - related dimensions . The most important reservation , however , concerns ...
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... presented : a number of verbally formulated basic concepts and their interrelationships , visualized in graphic models such as a fourfold table or a three - dimensional space . As such , these graphic models , of course , are as ...
... presented : a number of verbally formulated basic concepts and their interrelationships , visualized in graphic models such as a fourfold table or a three - dimensional space . As such , these graphic models , of course , are as ...
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... presented with a view to illustrate and support this line of argumentation . 1.9 Theories and models in three traditions of communication research In this section , three examples will be given , with a view to illustrate the way in ...
... presented with a view to illustrate and support this line of argumentation . 1.9 Theories and models in three traditions of communication research In this section , three examples will be given , with a view to illustrate the way in ...
Contents
XX | 29 |
XXI | 31 |
XXII | 32 |
XXIII | 35 |
XXIV | 37 |
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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