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Communication is the process of generation, transmission, or reception of messages to oneself or another entity, usually via a mutually understood set of signs.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to communication:
Essence of communication[]
- Main article: Communication
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
- Community structure theory
- Conversation analysis
- Critical theory
- Cues-filtered-out theory
- Cultivation theory
- Cultural studies
- Cybernetics
- Decision downloading
- Diffusion of innovations
- Dramatisming
- 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 Identity model 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
General communication concepts[]
Forms of communication[]
General 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
- People skills
- 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
- 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
- Community structure
- 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
- Manuel Castells
- Cicero
- Noam Chomsky
- Paul D'Angelo
- Karl W. Deutsch
- Walter Fisher
- George Gerbner
- G. Thomas Goodnight
- Jürgen Habermas
- Max Horkheimer
- Harold Innis
- Roman Jakobson
- Irving Janis
- Wendell Johnson
- D. Lawrence Kincaid
- Walter Lippman
- Herbert Marcuse
- George Herbert Mead
- Marshall McLuhan
- Desmond Morris
- Maxwell McCombs
- Walter J. Ong
- Vance Packard
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Plato
- John C. Pollock
- Neil Postman
- Nora C. Quebral
- Quintilian
- I. A. Richards
- Everett M. Rogers
- Wilbur Schramm
- Claude Shannon
- Deborah Tannen
- James W. Tankard, Jr.
- Warren Weaver
- Bob Woodward
See also[]
External links[]
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- A brief history of communication across ages
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- How Human Communication Fails (Tampere University of Technology)
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