Encyclopedia of communication theory/ Stephen W. Littlejohn, Karen A. Foss, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. A - I -- v. 2. J - Y.

Accommodation Theory -- Accounts and Account Giving -- Action Assembly Theory -- Action-Implicative Discourse Analysis -- Activation Theory of Information Exposure -- Activity Theory -- Actor-Network Theory -- Advertising Theories -- Affect-Dependent Theory of Stimulus Arrangements -- Afrocentricity -- Agency -- Agenda-Setting Theory -- Aggressiveness Theory -- Americanization of Media -- Anxiety/Uncertainty Management Theory -- Archeology and Genealogy -- Argumentation Theories -- Argumentativeness, Assertiveness, and Verbal Aggressiveness Theory -- Asian Communication Theory -- Attachment Theory -- Attitude Theory -- Attribution Theory -- Audience Theories -- Autoethnography -- Axiology -- Black Feminist Epistemology -- Bona Fide Group Theory -- Broadcasting Theories -- Buddhist Communication Theory -- Campaign Communication Theories -- Chicana Feminism -- Chinese Harmony Theory -- Chronemics -- Citizenship -- Classical Rhetorical Theory -- Co-Cultural Theory -- Cognitive Dissonance Theory -- Cognitive Theories -- Collective Information Sampling -- Communibiology -- Communication Across the Life Span -- Communication and Language Acquisition and Development -- Communication Goal Theories -- Communication in Later Life -- Communication Skills Theories -- Communication Theory of Identity -- Communicative Action Theory -- Community -- Community of Practice -- Competence Theories -- Complexity and Communication -- Compliance Gaining Strategies -- Complicity Theory -- Computer-Mediated Communication -- Conflict Communication Theories -- Confucian Communication Theory -- Consequentiality of Communication -- Co-Orientation Theory; Persuasion and Social Influence Theories -- Constitutive View of Communication -- Constructivism -- Contextual Theory of Interethnic Communication -- Convergence Theory -- Conversational Constraints Theory -- Conversation Analysis -- Coordinated Management of Meaning -- Co-Orientation Theory -- Corporate Campaign Theories -- Corporate Colonization Theory -- Creativity in Groups -- Critical Communication Pedagogy -- Critical Constructivism -- Critical Discourse Analysis -- Critical Ethnography -- Critical Organizational Communication -- Critical Race Theory -- Critical Rhetoric -- Critical Theory -- Cross-Cultural Adaptation Theory -- Cross-Cultural Communication -- Cross-Cultural Decision Making -- Cultivation Theory -- Cultural Contracts Theory -- Cultural Identity Theory -- Cultural Indicators -- Cultural Performance Theory -- Cultural Studies -- Cultural Theories of Health Communication -- Cultural Types Theories -- Culture and Communication -- Cybernetics -- Deception Detection -- Deconstruction -- Definitions of Communication -- Deliberative Democratic Theories -- Dependency -- Dialogue Theories -- Diaspora -- Diffusion of Innovations -- Digital Cultures -- Digital Divide -- Discourse Theory and Analysis -- Documentary Film Theories -- Dramatism and Dramatistic Pentad -- Dual-Level Connectionist Models of Group Cognition and Social Influence -- Dyadic Power Theory -- Effective Intercultural Workgroup Communication Theory -- Elaborated and Restricted Codes -- Elaboration Likelihood Theory -- Emotion and Communication -- Empathy -- Empiricism -- Entertainment-Education -- Environmental Communication Theories -- Epistemology -- Ethics Theories -- Ethnography of Communication -- Ethnomethodology -- Evaluating Communication Theory -- Existentialism -- Expectancy Violations Theory -- Persuasion and Social Influence Theories -- Face Negotiation Theory -- Facework Theories -- Family and Marital Schemas and Types -- Family Communication Theories -- Fans, Fandom, and Fan Studies -- Feminist Communication Theories -- Feminist Rhetorical Criticism -- Feminist Standpoint Theory -- Field Theory of Conflict -- Film Theories -- Flow and Contra-Flow -- Framing Theory -- Frankfurt School -- Free Flow Doctrine -- French Feminism -- Functional Group Communication Theory -- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Theories -- Gender and Biology -- Gender and Media -- Genderlect Theory -- Gender Role Theory -- Gender Schema Theory -- General Semantics -- Genre Theory -- Globalization Theories -- Grounded Theory -- Group and Organizational Structuration Theory -- Group Communication Theories -- Groupthink -- Hawaiian Ho'oponopono Theory -- Health Communication Theories -- Hermeneutics -- Heuristic-Systematic Model -- Hindu Communication Theory -- Humanistic Perspective -- Humorous Communication Theory --Hybridity -- I and Thou -- Identification -- Identity Theories -- Ideological Rhetoric -- Ideology -- Immediacy --Impression Formation -- Impression Management -- Indian Rasa Theory -- Information Theory -- Informatization -- Inoculation Theory -- Inquiry Processes -- Institutional Theories of Organizational Communication -- Interaction Adaptation Theory -- Interaction Involvement --Interaction Process Analysis -- Intercultural Communication Competence -- Intercultural Communication Theories -- International Communication Theories -- International Development Theories -- Interpersonal Communication Theories -- Interpersonal Deception Theory -- Interpretive Communities Theory -- Interpretive Theory -- Interracial Communication -- Intersectionality -- Intrapersonal Communication Theories -- Invitational Rhetoric. Japanese Kuuki Theory -- Journalism and Theories of the Press -- Kinesics -- Language and Communication -- Latino Perspectives -- Leadership Theories -- Learning and Communication -- Legal Communication Theories -- Linguistic Relativity -- Marxist Theory -- Materiality of Discourse -- Mathematical Theory of Communication -- Meaning Theories -- Media and Mass Communication Theories -- Media Democracy -- Media Diplomacy -- Media Effects Theories -- Media Equation Theory -- Media Ethics Theories -- Media Richness Theory -- Media Sovereignty -- Medium Theory -- Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) -- Metacommunication -- Metaphor -- Metatheory -- Modernism in Communication Theory --Motivated Information Management Theory -- Muted Group Theory -- Myth and Mythic Criticism -- Narrative and Narratology -- Negotiation Theory -- Neocolonialism -- Network Society -- New Media Theory -- New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) -- Nonverbal Communication Theories -- Ontology -- Ordinary Democracy -- Organizational Communication Theories -- Organizational Control Theory -- Organizational Co-Orientation Theory -- Organizational Culture -- Organizational Identity Theory -- Organizational List Theory -- Organizational Socialization and Assimilation -- Organizing, Process of -- Palo Alto Group -- Paralanguage -- Peace Theories -- Performance Ethnography -- Performance Theories -- Performative Writing -- Persuasion and Social Influence Theories -- Phenomenology -- Philosophy of Communication -- Persuasion and Social Influence Theories; Reasoned Action Theory -- Politeness Theory -- Political Communication Theories -- Popular Culture Theories -- Positioning Theory -- Postcolonial Feminism -- Postcolonial Theory -- Postmodern Theory -- Postpositivism -- Poststructuralism -- Power, Interpersonal -- Power and Power Relations -- Practical Theory -- Pragmatics -- Presence Theory -- Privacy Management Theory -- Privilege -- Problematic Integration Theory -- Process of Communication -- Propaganda Theory -- Proxemics -- Public Opinion Theories -- Public Sphere -- Queer Theory -- Racial Formation Theory -- Realism and the Received View -- Reasoned Action Theory -- Relational Communication Theory -- Relational Control Theory -- Relational Development -- Relational Dialectics -- Relational Maintenance Theories -- Relational Uncertainty -- Religious Communication Theories -- Rhetorical Sensitivity -- Rhetorical Theory -- Rogerian Dialogue Theory -- Rules Theories -- Scientific Approach -- Symbolic Interactionism -- Self-Categorization Theory -- Self-Disclosure -- Semiotics and Semiology -- Sense-Making -- Silence, Silences, and Silencing -- Simulation and Media -- Social Action Media Studies -- Social and Communicative Anxiety -- Social Construction of Reality -- Social Exchange Theory -- Social Identity Theory -- Social Information Processing Theory -- Social Interaction Theories -- Social Judgment Theory -- Social Justice -- Social Penetration Theory -- Social Support -- Spectatorship -- Speech Act Theory -- Speech Codes Theory -- Spiral Models of Media Effects -- Spiral of Silence -- Stakeholder Theory -- Stigma Communication -- Stories and Storytelling -- Structuration Theory -- Style, Communicator -- Subliminal Communication -- Symbolic Convergence Theory -- Symbolic Interactionism -- Symbolic-Interpretive Perspective on Groups -- System Theory -- Taoist Communication Theory -- Theory -- Traditions of Communication Theory -- Trait Theory -- Transculturation -- Two-Step and Multi-Step Flow -- Uncertainty Management Theories -- Uncertainty Reduction Theory -- Uses, Gratifications, and Dependency -- Validity and Reliability -- Values Studies: History and Concepts -- Values Theory: Sociocultural Dimensions and Frameworks -- Variable Analytic Tradition -- Vernacular Discourse -- Violence and Nonviolence in Media Studies -- Visual Communication Theories -- Whiteness Theory -- Womanism.