Theories and Models of Communication

This unique volume offers an overview of the diversity in research on communication: including perspectives from biology, sociality, economics, norms and human development. It includes general social science and humanities approaches to communication, from systems theory to cultural theory, as well as perspectives more specifically related to communication acts, such as linguistics and cognition. The volume also features chapters on the participants and various elements in communication processes, on possible effects and on wider consequences of mediation [with technical media].The scope of the contributions is global, and the volume is relevant to both the empirical and the philosophical traditions in human sciences. Designed as a stand-alone collection to engage undergraduates as well as postgraduates and academics, this is also the first book in, and an introduction to, the de Gruyter Mouton multi-volume Handbooks of Communication Science.

About the author

Peter J. Schulz, University of Lugano, Italy;Paul Cobley, London Metropolitan University, UK.

Product details

• Assisted by: Pau Cobley (Editor), Paul Cobley (Editor), J Schulz (Editor), J Schulz (Editor), Peter Schulz (Editor), Peter J. Schulz (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2013
• EAN: 9783110294804
• ISBN: 978-3-11-029480-4
• No. of pages: 442
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 27 mm x 231 mm
• Weight: 686 g
• Illustrations: 2 b/w tbl., 16 b/w ld
• Series: Schulz, Peter J.; Cobley, Paul: Handbooks of Communication Sciences; Handbooks of Communication Sciences; Handbooks of Communication Science; Handbooks of Communication Science; Handbooks of Communication Science [HoCS]; Handbooks of Communication Sciences; ISSN
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science