Essence of Communication

Communication theory
Development communication
Information
Information theory
Semiotics

Branches of communication

Fields of communication

Communication Studies
Cognitive Linguistics
Conversation Analysis
Discourse Analysis
Interpersonal Communication
Linguistics
Mass Communication
Organizational Communication
Political Communication
Pragmatics
Semiotics
Sociolinguistics

Theories, schools, and approaches

Theories of communication
Agenda-setting theory
Biosemiotics
Content analysis
Conversation analysis
Critical theory
Cues-filtered-out theory
Cultivation theory
Cultural studies
Cybernetics
Diffusion of innovations
Dramatism
Elaboration likelihood model
Ethnomethodology
Framing
Hermeneutics
Hypodermic needle model
Heuristic-Systematic Model
Hyperpersonal Model
Information theory
Knowledge gap hypothesis
Media ecology
Narrative paradigm
Network analysis
Nonviolent Communication
Opinion leadership
Political economy
Priming
Relational dialectics
Scheme
Social learning theory
Social construction of reality
Social Identification Mode of Deindividuation Effects (SIDE)
Social Information Processing theory
Social Penetration Theory
Spiral of silence
Strength of Weak Ties
Structuralism
Symbolic interactionism
Technology acceptance model
Theory of cognitive dissonance
Theory of Planned Behavior
Theory of Reasoned Action
Third-person effect
Two-step flow of communication
Uses and gratifications
Uncertainty reduction theory

History of communication

Cave painting
Early postal systems
Heliograph
Historical linguistics
History of alphabet
History of the book
History of computer science
History of computing (see also Timeline of computing)
History of computer hardware
History of Internet
History of linguistics
History of mass media
History of radio
History of telegraphy
History of telegraph
History of telephone
History of television
History of writing
Ideograms
Origin of language
Petroglyphs
Pictograms
Proto-language
Semaphore line
Smoke signals

Basic communication concepts

Forms of communication

Alphabet
Body language
Emotion
Image
Language
Symbol

Basic modes and types of communication

Autocommunication
Empathy
Computer-mediated communication
Health communication
Intrapersonal communication
Intercultural communication
Interpersonal communication
Mass communication
Non-verbal communication
Organizational communication
Persuasion
Propaganda
Public speaking
Reading
Rhetoric
Small-group communication
Speech
Translation
Writing

Communication industries and media vocations

Advertising
Book
Communication technology
Computers
Computer arts
Computer mediated communication
Computer networks
Conversation
Film
Graphic arts
Graphic Design
Internet
Journalism
Library
Mail
Marketing communications
Mass media
Media arts
Morse Code
News media
Newspaper
Printing
Public Relations
Radio
Recording
Small-group communication
Technical writing
Telecommunications
Telephone
Television
Video
Writing

General communication terms

Censorship
Cultural imperialism
Democracy
Dialectic
Digital divide
Freedom of the press
Freedom of speech
Hegemony
Identity
Imagined community
Information society
Late capitalism
Media imperialism
Morpheme
Nationalism
Phoneme
Postmodernity
Public sphere
Semiotics
Social capital
Social network
Sophist
Stereotyping
Stigma
Syllable
Universal service
Avatar (virtual reality)

Communication scholars

Theodor Adorno
Aristotle
Roland Barthes
Gregory Bateson
Walter Benjamin
Kenneth Burke
Cicero
Noam Chomsky
Karl W. Deutsch
Walter Fisher
George Gerbner
Jürgen Habermas
Max Horkheimer
Harold Innis
Roman Jakobson
Irving Janis
Wendell Johnson
Walter Lippman
Herbert Marcuse
George Herbert Mead
Marshall McLuhan
Desmond Morris
Maxwell McCombs
Walter J. Ong
Vance Packard
Charles Peirce
Plato
Neil Postman
Quintilian
I. A. Richards
Everett M. Rogers
Wilbur Schramm
Claude Shannon
Deborah Tannen
James W. Tankard, Jr.
Warren Weaver

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