Communication: An IntroductionWritten 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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... institutions found in all human societies . ( Institutions in this sense of the word are more or less standardized , more or less accepted , or even prescribed , ways of solving general problems facing individuals , groups ...
... institutions found in all human societies . ( Institutions in this sense of the word are more or less standardized , more or less accepted , or even prescribed , ways of solving general problems facing individuals , groups ...
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... institution . And as time has passed by , each one of these basic institutions has also become more internally differentiated , more institutionally developed ( think of the many institutions within the economic sector , for instance ...
... institution . And as time has passed by , each one of these basic institutions has also become more internally differentiated , more institutionally developed ( think of the many institutions within the economic sector , for instance ...
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... institutions . One group of cognitively - oriented disciplines - for instance , philology , linguistics ... institutions created by man when building a human society ; • the institutions created to ensure the continued existence of ...
... institutions . One group of cognitively - oriented disciplines - for instance , philology , linguistics ... institutions created by man when building a human society ; • the institutions created to ensure the continued existence of ...
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... institutional and communication - related dimensions . The most important reservation , however , concerns the fact that two basic dimensions are not included in the typology : those of time and space . ( In schools and universities ...
... institutional and communication - related dimensions . The most important reservation , however , concerns the fact that two basic dimensions are not included in the typology : those of time and space . ( In schools and universities ...
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... ( institutional dimension ) ; • covering the dimensions of time and space , since obviously , any study of communication must heed both a temporal and a spatial perspective . Visualized in this way , the emerging discipline of ...
... ( institutional dimension ) ; • covering the dimensions of time and space , since obviously , any study of communication must heed both a temporal and a spatial perspective . Visualized in this way , the emerging discipline of ...
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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