Concept information
Preferred term
communication theory
Definition
- A theory is a unified, or coherent, body of propositions that provide a philosophically consistent picture of a subject. Indeed, our knowledge of communication is largely packaged into theories of various types. [Source: Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; Theory]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- applications and contexts
- critical orientations
- cultural orientations
- cybernetic and systems orientations
- feminist orientations
- group and organizational concepts
- information, media, and communication technology
- international and global concepts
- interpersonal concepts
- non-western orientations
- paradigms, traditions, and schools
- philosophical orientations
- psycho-cognitive orientations
- rhetorical orientations
- semiotic, linguistic, and discursive orientations
- social-interactional orientations
- theory, metatheory, methodology, and inquiry
Belongs to group
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-JR67HR3V-B
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