Thinking About Communication: Definition, Models, and Ethics --- Thinking About the Field: Traditions and Contexts --- Thinking About Theory, Research, and Paradigms --- Empirical/Post-Positivist Theories --- The Self and Messages --- Expectancy Violations Theory --- Relationship Development --- Uncertainty Reduction Theory --- Social Exchange Theory --- Social Penetration Theory --- Social Information Processing Theory --- Groups, Teams, and Organizations --- Structuration Theory --- Organizational Information Theory --- Agenda Setting Theory --- Spiral of Silence Theory --- Uses and Gratifications Theory --- Culture and Diversity --- Face-Negotiation Theory --- Interpretive Theories --- The Self and Messages --- Symbolic Interaction Theory --- Coordinated Management of Meaning --- Relationship Development --- Communication Privacy Management Theory --- Groups, Teams, and Organizations --- Groupthink --- Organizational Culture Theory --- The Rhetoric --- Dramatism --- The Narrative Paradigm --- Media Ecology Theory --- Culture and Diversity --- Communication Accommodation Theory --- Critical Theories --- Relationship Development --- Relational Dialectics Theory --- Cultivation Theory --- Cultural Studies Theory --- Culture and Diversity --- Muted Group Theory --- Feminist Standpoint Theory --- Co-Cultural Theory