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
chapter 3|2 pages
What's the Topic? Language and the world
chapter 4|2 pages
What's the Topic? Approaching reading
chapter 5|3 pages
What's the Topic? Structuralism
chapter 6|4 pages
What's the Topic? Applying structuralist analysis
chapter 7|3 pages
What's the Topic? The semiotic and process schools of communication theory
chapter 8|2 pages
What's the Topic? The semiotic or semiological approach
chapter 9|2 pages
What's the Topic? Langue and parole
chapter 10|4 pages
What's the Topic? The application of semiotic ideas: metaphor and metonymy
chapter 11|2 pages
What's the Topic? Shannon and Weaver's mathematical theory of communication, and linear models of communication
chapter 12|4 pages
What's the Topic? Feedback and Osgood and Schramm's model of communication
chapter 15|3 pages
What's the Topic? Making an active reading of a text
chapter 16|4 pages
What's the Topic? Analysing a text in a limited period of time
part 2|67 pages
Themes in Personal Communication
chapter 17|5 pages
What's the Topic? Self-image and self-presentation
chapter 18|3 pages
What's the Topic? Self-esteem and gender
chapter 19|3 pages
What's the Topic? Freud and theories of personality
chapter 20|6 pages
What's the Topic? Applying Freudian analysis
chapter 21|2 pages
What's the Topic? Freud and psychoanalysis
chapter 22|2 pages
What's the Topic? Nature versus nurture
chapter 23|3 pages
What's the Topic? The dramaturgical model of self-presentation
chapter 24|3 pages
What's the Topic? Social interaction
chapter 25|3 pages
What's the Topic? Non-verbal codes
chapter 26|3 pages
What's the Topic? The functions of non-verbal communication
chapter 27|4 pages
What's the Topic? A vocabulary of nonverbal behaviour
chapter 28|3 pages
What's the Topic? The social determinants of interpersonal communication
chapter 29|2 pages
What's the Topic? Transactional analysis
chapter 30|4 pages
What's the Topic? Gender and interpersonal communication
chapter 31|3 pages
What's the Topic? ‘Male'and ‘female’talk
chapter 33|2 pages
What's the Topic? Narrative and language
chapter 34|3 pages
What's the Topic? Language change I
chapter 35|2 pages
What's the Topic? Language change II
chapter 36|3 pages
What's the Topic? Power in groups
chapter 37|5 pages
What's the Topic? Leadership and groups
part 3|55 pages
Communication Practice
chapter 38|3 pages
What's the Topic? Effective communication practice
chapter 39|6 pages
What's the Topic? Research methods
chapter 40|3 pages
What's the Topic? Feminist research
chapter 41|6 pages
What's the Topic? Undertaking research ethically
chapter 42|6 pages
What's the Topic? Internet research
chapter 43|3 pages
What's the Topic? Effective writing
chapter 44|4 pages
What's the Topic? Clarity in writing I
chapter 45|2 pages
What's the Topic? Clarity in writing II
chapter 46|2 pages
What's the Topic? Original writing
chapter 48|3 pages
What's the Topic? Making effective oral presentations
chapter 49|4 pages
What's the Topic? Impressive communication
chapter 50|4 pages
What's the Topic? Rhetoric
chapter 51|2 pages
What's the Topic? The trouble with rhetoric
chapter 53|3 pages
What's the Topic? Communication problems (real and contrived)
part 4|88 pages
Culture, Communication and Context
chapter 54|3 pages
What's the Topic? Definitions of culture
chapter 57|2 pages
What's the Topic? High and low culture
chapter 58|4 pages
What's the Topic? The Two Cultures debate persists
chapter 59|4 pages
What's the Topic? Popular culture and the test of time
chapter 61|3 pages
What's the Topic? Cultural capital, habitus, popular culture and high culture
chapter 62|4 pages
What's the Topic? From Marx to Marxism
chapter 64|5 pages
What's the Topic? Using semiotics to read patriarchy
chapter 66|1 pages
What's the Topic? Post-feminism: definitions
chapter 67|2 pages
What's the Topic? Post-feminism: applications
chapter 68|4 pages
What's the Topic? Lyotard and postmodernism
chapter 69|3 pages
What's the Topic? The implications of postmodernism for writing
chapter 70|2 pages
What's the Topic? Postmodernist readings
chapter 71|1 pages
What's the Topic? Postcolonialism and Orientalism
chapter 72|3 pages
What's the Topic? Postcolonialist readings and imagined communities
chapter 73|2 pages
What's the Topic? The landscape as text
chapter 74|5 pages
What's the Topic? The cityscape as text
chapter 75|4 pages
What's the Topic? Reading everyday life I
chapter 76|2 pages
What's the Topic? Reading everyday life II
chapter 77|1 pages
What's the Topic? The human figure as text I
chapter 78|3 pages
What's the Topic? The human figure as text II
chapter 80|3 pages
What's the Topic? Celebrity as text I
chapter 82|3 pages
What's the Topic? Reading the media
chapter 84|3 pages
What's the Topic? Society as text
part 5|56 pages
Debates and Controversies in Communication