Communication Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Identity and Communication

   New Agendas in Communication

   Edited by Dominic L Lasorsa, America Rodriguez

   Series: New Agendas in Communication Series

   Identity and Communication offers an innovative take on traditional topics of intercultural communication while promoting new ideas and progressive theories.With essays by emerging voices in identity communication, volume contributors discuss the ways that racial, cultural, and gender identities...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication

   Edited by Paul M. Pedersen

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication is the only book to offer a fully comprehensive and in-depth survey of the contemporary discipline of sport communication. It explores communication within, through, and for sport in all its theoretical, conceptual, cultural, behavioral, practical and...

   Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Interpersonal Communication

   Putting Theory into Practice

   By Denise Solomon, Jennifer Theiss

   Some of us may believe that interpersonal communication is a matter of common sense or that skillful communication is an innate ability that you either have or you don’t. In this text, Denise Solomon and Jennifer Theiss demonstrate that interpersonal communication skills are not just common...

   Published January 2nd 2013 by Routledge
4. Screening the Public Sphere

   Media and Democracy in India

   By Saima Saeed

   For centuries, democracy and development have steered the imagination of governments, citizens, intelligentsia and policymakers alike. Democracy without free media is a contradiction, while development without democracy is futile. Highlighting the power and significance of contemporary media, this...

   Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
5. Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication

   Internatural Communication

   Edited by Emily Plec

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Despite its inherent interdisciplinarity, the Communication discipline has remained an almost entirely anthropocentric enterprise. This book represents early and prominent forays into the subject of human-animal communication from a Communication Studies perspective, an effort that brings a...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Family Storytelling

   Negotiating Identities, Teaching Lessons, and Making Meaning

   Edited by Jody Koenig Kellas

   Stories and storytelling are one of the primary ways that families and family members make sense of both everyday and difficult events, create a sense of individual and group identity, remember, connect generations, and establish guidelines for family behavior. With so many important functions,...

   Published July 8th 2012 by Routledge
7. Communication Yearbook 36

   Edited by Charles T. Salmon

   Communication Yearbook 36 continues the tradition of publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. Editor Charles T. Salmon presents a volume that is highly international and interdisciplinary in scope, with authors and chapters representing the broad global interests of the...

   Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
8. Stories of Life in the Workplace

   An Open Architecture for Organizational Narratology

   By Larry Browning, George H. Morris

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Addressing both renowned theories and standard applications, Stories of Life in the Workplace explains how stories affect human practices and organizational life. Authors Larry Browning and George H. Morris explore how we experience, interpret, and personalize narrative stories in our everyday...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
9. Deconstructing Digital Natives

   Young People, Technology, and the New Literacies

   Edited by Michael Thomas

   There have been many attempts to define the generation of students who emerged with the Web and new digital technologies in the early 1990s. The term "digital native" refers to the generation born after 1980, which has grown up in a world where digital technologies and the internet are a normal...

   Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge