ABSTRACT
This book brings together a huge range of material including academic articles, film scripts and interplanetary messages adrift on space probes with supporting commentary to clarify their imporatance to the field. Communication Studies: The Essential Resource is a collection of essays and texts for all those studying communication at university and pre-university level.
Individual sections address:
* texts and meanings in communication
* themes in personal communication
* communication practice
* culture, communication and context
* debates and controversies in communication.
Edited by the same teachers and examiners who brought us AS Communication Studies: The Essential Introduction, this volume will help communications students to engage with the subject successfully. Its key features include:
* suggested further activities at the end of each chapter
* a glossary of key terms
* a comprehensive bibliography with web resources.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|46 pages
Texts and Meanings in Communication
chapter 2|5 pages
What's the Topic? Perception, perspective, and the character of images
What's the Text? John BergerWays of Seeing
chapter 3|2 pages
What's the Topic? Language and the world
What's the Text? Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Grammar
chapter 4|2 pages
What's the Topic? Approaching reading
What's the Text? Robert EaglestoneDoing English
chapter 5|3 pages
What's the Topic? Structuralism
What's the Text? Terence HawkesStructuralism and Semiotics
chapter 6|4 pages
What's the Topic? Applying structuralist analysis
What's the Text? Umberto EcoThe Role of the Reader
chapter 7|3 pages
What's the Topic? The semiotic and process schools of communication theory
What's the Text? John FiskeIntroduction to Communication Studies
chapter 8|2 pages
What's the Topic? The semiotic or semiological approach
What's the Text? Pierre GuiraudSemiology
chapter 9|2 pages
What's the Topic? Langue and parole
What's the Text? Roland BarthesElements of Sociology
chapter 10|4 pages
What's the Topic? The application of semiotic ideas: metaphor and metonymy
What's the Text? Stephen Barley ‘Semiotics and the study of occupational and organisational cultures’
chapter 11|2 pages
What's the Topic? Shannon and Weaver's mathematical theory of communication, and linear models of communication
What's the Text? Denis McQuail and Sven WindahlCommunication Models for the Study of Mass Communication
chapter 12|4 pages
What's the Topic? Feedback and Osgood and Schramm's model of communication
What's the Text? John Morgan and Peter Welton See What I Mean?
chapter 15|3 pages
What's the Topic? Making an active reading of a text
What's the Text? David Lodge ‘Shakin’ Stevens Superstar’
chapter 16|4 pages
What's the Topic? Analysing a text in a limited period of time
What's the Text? Helen HackettResponse to AQA ‘A’ Level Communication Studies Examination Question
part 2|67 pages
Themes in Personal Communication
chapter 17|5 pages
What's the Topic? Self-image and self-presentation
What's the Text? Bret Easton EllisAmerican Psycho
chapter 18|3 pages
What's the Topic? Self-esteem and gender
What's the Text? Mary Ragan ‘Women and self-esteem’
chapter 19|3 pages
What's the Topic? Freud and theories of personality
What's the Text? Mick Underwood Cultsock website
chapter 20|6 pages
What's the Topic? Applying Freudian analysis
What's the Text? Sigmund FreudThe Psychopathology of Everyday Life
chapter 21|2 pages
What's the Topic? Freud and psychoanalysis
What's the Text? Harold Ramis, Peter Tolan and Kenneth LonerganAnalyze This
chapter 22|2 pages
What's the Topic? Nature versus nurture
What's the Text? Stephen PinkerThe Language Instinct
chapter 23|3 pages
What's the Topic? The dramaturgical model of self-presentation
What's the Text? Erving GoffmanThe Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
chapter 24|3 pages
What's the Topic? Social interaction
What's the Text? Richard Dimbleby and Graeme BurtonBetween Ourselves
chapter 25|3 pages
What's the Topic? Non-verbal codes
What's the Text? Andrew Ellis and Geoffrey BeattieThe Psychology of Language and Communication
chapter 26|3 pages
What's the Topic? The functions of non-verbal communication
What's the Text? Michael ArgyleThe Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour
chapter 27|4 pages
What's the Topic? A vocabulary of nonverbal behaviour
What's the Text? Desmond MorrisBody Talk: A World Guide to Gestures
chapter 28|3 pages
What's the Topic? The social determinants of interpersonal communication
What's the Text? Peter HartleyInterpersonal Communication
chapter 29|2 pages
What's the Topic? Transactional analysis
What's the Text? Eric Berne ‘Last speech (to the Golden Gate Group Psychotherapy Association)’
chapter 30|4 pages
What's the Topic? Gender and interpersonal communication
What's the Text? Deborah TannenThat's Not What I Meant: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks a Relationship
chapter 31|3 pages
What's the Topic? ‘Male'and ‘female’talk
What's the Text? Liz Lochhead ‘Men Talk (Rap)’
chapter 33|2 pages
What's the Topic? Narrative and language
What's the Text? Paul AusterNew York Trilogy
chapter 34|3 pages
What's the Topic? Language change I
What's the Text? Mark Jones ‘The lost art of coining a phrase’
chapter 35|2 pages
What's the Topic? Language change II
What's the Text? Daily Mail reporter ‘The last word in texting’
chapter 36|3 pages
What's the Topic? Power in groups
What's the Text? Peter HartleyGroup Communication
chapter 37|5 pages
What's the Topic? Leadership and groups
What's the Text? Gerald ColeManagement: Theory and Practice
part 3|55 pages
Communication Practice
chapter 38|3 pages
What's the Topic? Effective communication practice
What's the Text? Carl Sagan and Frank Drake ‘The Pioneer 10 plaque’
chapter 39|6 pages
What's the Topic? Research methods
What's the Text? Keith PunchIntroduction to Social Research
chapter 40|3 pages
What's the Topic? Feminist research
What's the Text? Liesbet van ZoonenFeminist Media Studies
chapter 41|6 pages
What's the Topic? Undertaking research ethically
What's the Text? British Psychological Society research guidelines
chapter 42|6 pages
What's the Topic? Internet research
What's the Text? Angus KennedyThe Rough Guide to the Internet
chapter 43|3 pages
What's the Topic? Effective writing
What's the Text? Winford Hicks, Sally Adams, Harriett GilbertWriting for Journalists
chapter 44|4 pages
What's the Topic? Clarity in writing I
What's the Text? George Orwell ‘Politics and the English language’
chapter 45|2 pages
What's the Topic? Clarity in writing II
What's the Text? Plain English Campaign website
chapter 46|2 pages
What's the Topic? Original writing
What's the Text? Alain de BottonHow Proust Can Change Your Life
chapter 48|3 pages
What's the Topic? Making effective oral presentations
What's the Text? Newcastle University Classics Department ‘Departmental guidelines on oral presentations’
chapter 49|4 pages
What's the Topic? Impressive communication
What's the Text? Dale CarnegieThe Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
chapter 50|4 pages
What's the Topic? Rhetoric
What's the Text? Jacquie L'Etang 'Public relations and rhetoric'
chapter 51|2 pages
What's the Topic? The trouble with rhetoric
What's the Text? Emmett Grogan Ringolevio:A Life Played for Keeps
chapter 53|3 pages
What's the Topic? Communication problems (real and contrived)
What's the Text? John Cleese and Connie Booth Fawlty Towers: ‘Communications problems’
part 4|88 pages
Culture, Communication and Context
chapter 54|3 pages
What's the Topic? Definitions of culture
What's the Text? Dick HebdigeSubculture: The Meaning of Style
chapter 57|2 pages
What's the Topic? High and low culture
What's the Text? Raymond WilliamsCommunications
chapter 58|4 pages
What's the Topic? The Two Cultures debate persists
What's the Text? Melvyn Bragg 'They want us to choose between the Beatles and Beethoven. Why can't we have both?'
chapter 59|4 pages
What's the Topic? Popular culture and the test of time
What's the Text? DJ Taylor 'It's only Mick and Keef but we like them'
chapter 61|3 pages
What's the Topic? Cultural capital, habitus, popular culture and high culture
What's the Text? Paul TaylorInvestigating Culture and Identity
chapter 62|4 pages
What's the Topic? From Marx to Marxism
What's the Text? Jonathan Hale ‘Politics and architecture’
chapter 64|5 pages
What's the Topic? Using semiotics to read patriarchy
What's the Text? David LodgeNice Work
chapter 66|1 pages
What's the Topic? Post-feminism: definitions
What's the Text? Yvonne Tasker ‘Office politics: masculinity, feminism, and the workplace in Disclosure’
chapter 67|2 pages
What's the Topic? Post-feminism: applications
What's the Text? Camille PagliaSex, Art and American Culture
chapter 68|4 pages
What's the Topic? Lyotard and postmodernism
What's the Text? John LechteFifty Key Contemporary Thinkers
chapter 69|3 pages
What's the Topic? The implications of postmodernism for writing
What's the Text? Alan BrymanSocial Research Methods
chapter 70|2 pages
What's the Topic? Postmodernist readings
What's the Text? Jean BaudrillardSimulations
chapter 71|1 pages
What's the Topic? Postcolonialism and Orientalism
What's the Text? Edward SaidOrientalism
chapter 72|3 pages
What's the Topic? Postcolonialist readings and imagined communities
What's the Text? Anthony P CohenThe Symbolic Construction of Community
chapter 73|2 pages
What's the Topic? The landscape as text
What's the Text? Gunther Kress and Theo van LeeuwenReading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design
chapter 74|5 pages
What's the Topic? The cityscape as text
What's the Text? Mike DavisCity of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
chapter 75|4 pages
What's the Topic? Reading everyday life I
What's the Text? Georg SimmelSimmel on Culture
chapter 76|2 pages
What's the Topic? Reading everyday life II
What's the Text? Margaret VisserThe Way We Are
chapter 77|1 pages
What's the Topic? The human figure as text I
What's the Text? David Fickling ‘Lizard Man’
chapter 78|3 pages
What's the Topic? The human figure as text II
What's the Text? Susan JeffordsHard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era
chapter 80|3 pages
What's the Topic? Celebrity as text I
What's the Text? Julie Burchill ‘All the pretty songs’
chapter 82|3 pages
What's the Topic? Reading the media
What's the Text? John FiskeReading the Popular
chapter 84|3 pages
What's the Topic? Society as text
What's the Text? Iain ChambersPopular Culture: The Metropolitan Experience
part 5|56 pages
Debates and Controversies in Communication
chapter 85|3 pages
What's the Topic? Theories of communication I
What's the Text? Colin CherryOn Human Communication
chapter 86|4 pages
What's the Topic? Theories of communication II
What's the Text? Raymond WilliamsCommunications
chapter 87|4 pages
What's the Topic? Theories of communication III
What's the Text? Judith WilliamsonConsuming Passions
chapter 88|2 pages
What's the Topic? The trouble with models
What's the Text? Denis McQuail and Sven WindahlCommunication Models for the Study of Mass Communication
chapter 89|3 pages
What's the Topic? Can process and semiotic models be combined?
What's the Text? John Lye 'Synopsis of Roman Jakobson's model of communication'
chapter 90|2 pages
What's the Topic? The age of anxiety
What's the Text? Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media:The Extensions of Man
chapter 91|3 pages
What's the Topic? Globalisation
What's the Text? George RitzerThe McDonaldization of Society
chapter 92|8 pages
What's the Topic? The mediatised life
What's the Text? Raymond Williams ‘Drama in a dramatised society’
chapter 93|2 pages
What's the Topic? Technology as culture
What's the Text? Neil PostmanTechnopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
chapter 94|5 pages
What's the Topic? Communication through technology
What's the Text? Kate Kellaway ‘Deadlier than the snailmail’
chapter 95|5 pages
What's the Topic? Communication technology
What's the Text? Sam Sifton ‘Speak fluent Yettie’
chapter 96|4 pages
What's the Topic? The technologically mediated self
What's the Text? Charles Cheung ‘A home on the web: presentations of self on personal homepages’
chapter 97|3 pages
What's the Topic? Communication and socialisation I
What's the Text? Basil BernsteinClass, Codes and Control
chapter 98|3 pages
What's the Topic? Communication and socialisation II
What's the Text? Michael MooreStupid White Men
chapter 99|3 pages
What's the Topic? Communication and socialisation III
What's the Text? Anthony P CohenThe Symbolic Construction of Community
chapter 100|1 pages
What's the Topic? The reputation of communication professionals
What's the Text? Humbert Wolfe ‘The British journalist’
