Communication Theories and Proponents

Read all of these and their theories.

Action Assembly Theory - Irving Janis

Adaptive Structuration Theory - Marshall Scott Poole

Agenda Setting Theory - Maxwell McCombs & Donald Shaw

Anxiety-Uncertainty Management Theory -

William Gudykunst

Attribution Theory - Fritz Heider

Categorical Imperative - Immanuel Kant

Cognitive Dissonance - Leon Festinger

Communication Accommodation Theory -
Howard Giles

Communitarian Ethics - Clifford Christians

Communication Privacy Management Theory -
Sandra Petronio

Constructivism - Jesse Delia

Coordinated Management of Meaning - W Barnett Pearce & Vernon Cronen

Critical Theory - Geert Hofstede

Critical Theory of Communication in Organizations - Stanley Deetz

Cultivation Theory - George Gerbner

Cultural Approach to Organizations - Clifford Geertz & Michael Pacanowsky

Cultural Studies - Stuart Hall

Dialogic Theory - Martin Buber

Dialogic Ethics - Martin Buber

Different Voice - Carol Gilligan

Discourse Ethics-Theory of Communicative Action - Jürgen Habermas

Discursive Formation - Sonja K Foss

Dramatism - Kenneth Burke

Elaboration Likelihood Model - Richard Petty & John Cacippio

Existential Theory - Carl Rogers

Expectancy Violations Theory -Judee Burgoon

Face Negotiation Theory - Stella Ting-Toomey

FIRO Theory- William Schutz

Functional Perspective on Group Decision Making - Randy

 Hirokawa & Dennis Gouran

Genderlect Styles - Deborah Tannen

General Semantics - Alfred Korzybski

Goals-Plans-Action Model - Elihu Katz

Golden Mean - Aristotle

Groupthink - Irving Janis

Hierarchy of Needs - Abraham Maslow

High- and Low-Context Cultures - Edward Hall

Information Theory - Claude Shannon & Warren Weaver

Information Systems Approach to Organizations
- Karl Weick

Interaction Adaptation Theory - Judee Burgoon

The Interactional View- Paul Watzlawick

Interaction Process Analysis - James Dillard

Interactive Universalism - Seyla Benhabib

Interpersonal Deception Theory - David Buller & Judee Burgoon

Interact System Model of Decision Emergence -
B Aubrey Fisher

Linguistic Relativity - Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf

Magic Bullet-Hypodermic Needle- Lazarsfeld and Herta Herzog

Marxism - Karl Marx

Meaning of Meaning - I A Richards

Media Ecology - Marshall McLuhan

The Media Equation - Byron Reeves & Clifford Nass

Mediational Theory of Meaning - Charles Osgood

Muted Group Theory - Cheris Kramarae

Narrative Paradigm - Walter Fisher

Performance Ethnography - Cindy O Griffin

Principle of Veracity- Sissella Bok

Prophetic Pragmatism - Cornel West

Proxemic Theory - Edward Hall

Relational Control - Millar and Rogers

Relational Dialectics - Leslie Baxter & Barbara Montgomery

Resonance Principle of Communication - George Gerbner and Tony Schwartz

The Rhetoric - Aristotle

Semiotics- Roland Barthes

Significant Choice - Thomas Nilsen

Social Exchange Theory - John Thibaut & Harold Kelley

Social Information Processing Theory - Joseph Walther

Social Judgment Theory- Muzafer Sherif

Social Learning Theory-Social Cognition Theory - Albert Bandura

Social Penetration Theory - Irwin Altman & Dalmas Taylor

Speech Codes Theory - Gerry Philipsen

Spiral of Silence - Elisabeth Noelle-Nuemann

Standpoint Theory - Sandra Harding & Julia T Wood

Structural Linguistics - Karl Marx

Structuration Theory - John Bowlby

Symbolic Convergence Theory- Ernest Bormann

Symbolic Interactionism - George Herbert Mead

Two-Step Flow of Communication - Paul Lazarsfeld

Uncertainty Reduction Theory - Charles Berger

Yale Attitude Change - Carl Hovland and his colleagues at Yale University

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