Communication Studies: The Essential Resource Book

	Acknowledgements
	Beginnings (and ends)	1
1	Approaching theory	7
2	Perception, perspective, and the character of images	9
3	Language and the world	13
4	Approaching reading	16
5	Structuralism	18
6	Applying structuralist analysis	20
7	The semiotic and process schools of communication theory	25
8	The semiotic or semiological approach	27
9	Langue and parole	29
10	The application of semiotic ideas: metaphor and metonymy	31
11	Shannon and Weaver's mathematical theory of communication, and linear models of communication	35
12	Feedback and Osgood and Schramm's model of communication	38
13	Culture	41
14	Applying semiotics	43
15	Making an active reading of a text	46
16	Analysing a text in a limited period of time	49
17	Self-image and self-presentation	53
18	Self-esteem and gender	58
19	Freud and theories of personality	61
20	Applying Freudian analysis	65
21	Freud and psychoanalysis	70
22	Nature versus nurture	72
23	The dramaturgical model of self-presentation	75
24	Social interaction	77
25	Non-verbal codes	80
26	The functions of non-verbal communication	84
27	A vocabulary of non-verbal behaviour	86
28	The social determinants of interpersonal communication	90
29	Transactional analysis	93
30	Gender and interpersonal communication	95
31	'Male' and 'female' talk	100
32	Language	102
33	Narrative and language	104
34	Language change I	107
35	Language change II	110
36	Power in groups	111
37	Leadership and groups	114
38	Effective communication practice	121
39	Research methods	125
40	Feminist research	130
41	Undertaking research ethically	134
42	Internet research	139
43	Effective writing	145
44	Clarity in writing I	148
45	Clarity in writing II	152
46	Original writing	154
47	Writing style	156
48	Making effective oral presentations	158
49	Impressive communication	161
50	Rhetoric	166
51	The trouble with rhetoric	169
52	Summing up	171
53	Communication problems (real and contrived)	172
54	Definitions of culture	177
55	Ideology	180
56	High culture	182
57	High and low culture	184
58	The Two Cultures debate persists	187
59	Popular culture and the test of time	191
60	The canon	194
61	Cultural capital, habitus, popular culture and high culture	199
62	From Marx to Marxism	201
63	Marxism	205
64	Using semiotics to read patriarchy	208
65	Feminism	212
66	Post-feminism: definitions	215
67	Post-feminism: applications	216
68	Lyotard and postmodernism	219
69	The implications of postmodernism for writing	222
70	Postmodernist readings	225
71	Postcolonialism and Orientalism	227
72	Postcolonialist readings and imagined communities	229
73	The landscape as text	231
74	The cityscape as text	233
75	Reading everyday life I	239
76	Reading everyday life II	242
77	The human figure as text I	244
78	The human figure as text II	246
79	Gender as text	249
80	Celebrity as text I	251
81	Celebrity as text II	253
82	Reading the media	256
83	Readings of place	259
84	Society as text	262
85	Theories of communication I	265
86	Theories of communication II	269
87	Theories of communication III	272
88	The trouble with models	276
89	Can process and semiotic models be combined?	279
90	The age of anxiety	281
91	Globalisation	283
92	The mediatised life	286
93	Technology as culture	294
94	Communication through technology	297
95	Communication technology	301
96	The technologically mediated self	307
97	Communication and socialisation I	311
98	Communication and socialisation II	313
99	Communication and socialisation III	317
100	The reputation of communication professionals	319
	Ends (and beginnings)	321
	Glossary	324
	References	329
	Index	340