Communication Studies: An Introductory Reader

Section 1 Communication: definitions and approaches. What is communication? Colin Cherry. A generalized graphic model of communication George Gerbner. Defining language Jean Aitchison. Deceit and misrepresentation W H Scott. Verbal and non-verbal representation Michael Argyle. The analysis of representational images Bill Nichols. Section 11 The sociocultural relations of language. Social class, language and socialization Basil Bernstein. Impossible discourse Trevor Pateman. The structures of speech and writing Gunther Kress. Beyond alienation: an integrational approach to women and language Deborah Cameron. Involvement strategies in a speech by the Reverend Jesse Jackson Deborah Tannen. Talk, identity and performance: The Tony Blackburn Show Graham Brand and Paddy Scannell. Section Ill Perception and interaction. The perceptual process Albert H Hastorf, David J Schneider and Judith Polefka. Social communication Stuart Sigman. Stereotypes Walter Lippmann. They saw a game Albert H Hastorf and Hadley Cantril. Introduction to the presentation of self in everyday life Erving Goffimn. Mass communication and para-social interaction Donald Horton and R Richard Wohl. Holbein's "The Ambassadors" John Berger. The flower dream Sigmund Freud. Section IV Media form and cultural process. The contours of high modernity Anthony Guldens. The unique perspective of television and its effect: a pilot study Kurt Lang and Gladys Engel Lang. Broadcast TV as sound and image John Ellis. Visualising the news Richard Ericson, Patricia Baranek and Janet Chan. Documentary meanings and the discourse of interpretation John Corner and Kay Richardson. Dallas between reality and fiction Len Ang. Captured on videotape: camcorders and the personalization of television Lawrence j Vale. Music, text and image in Coca-Cola commercials Hroar Klempe.