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Communication Theory

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6 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Communication Theory.

  • Communication source — The sender or stochastic process that generates and encodes message symbols for transmission through a communication channel to one or more receivers.
  • Coordinated management of meaning — Analyze communication as a recursive process in which participants use constitutive and regulative rules across nested contexts to coordinate actions and jointly make the social worlds their interaction sustains.
  • Language expectancy theory — Explain persuasive effects by comparing a speaker's language choices with socially learned expectations for that speaker, audience, topic, and situation, with outcomes depending on both violation direction and source evaluation.
  • Meta-communication — Communication that frames how another message, code or relationship is to be interpreted.
  • Shannon–Weaver Communication Model — A linear technical-communication model in which a source's message is encoded into a signal, exposed to channel noise, decoded by a receiver, and delivered to a destination.
  • Source–message–channel–receiver model of communication — A linear communication model describing how a source encodes a message, sends it through a channel and reaches a receiver who decodes it.