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A FIRST LOOK AT
COMMUNICATION
THEORY
ELEVENTH EDITION
EM GRIFFIN
Wheaton College
ANDREW LEDBETTER
GLENN SPARKS
Purdue University
Special Consultants:
Katherine R. Cooper
DePaul University
Theon E. Hill
Wheaton College
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Social Influence
Social Judgment Theory (Sherif & Sherif)
Elaboration Likelihood Model (Petty & Cacioppo)
Cognitive Dissonance Theory (Festinger)
The Rhetoric (Aristotle)
Dramatism (Burke)
Narrative Paradigm (Fisher)
Cultural Context
Communication Accommodation Theory (Giles)
Face-Negotiation Theory (Ting-Toomey)
Co-Cultural Theory (Orbe)
Afrocentricity (Asante)
Feminist Standpoint Theory (Harding & Wood)
Muted Group Theory (Kramarae)
Mass Communication
Media Ecology (McLuhan)
Context Collapse (boyd & Marwick)
Semiotics (Barthes)
Cultural Studies (Hall)
Uses and Gratifications (Katz)
Cultivation Theory (Gerbner)
Agenda-Setting Theory (McCombs & Shaw)
DEDICATION
We dedicate this book to our wives, Jeanie, Jessica, and Cheri, who
encouraged us to work together, celebrated with us when the process
went well, and comforted us when it didn’t. Just as they lovingly
supported us in this project, we commit to being there for them in
what they feel called to do.
CONTENTS
DIVISION ONE
OVERVIEW
CHAPTER 1
Launching Your Study of Communication Theory
CHAPTER 2
Objective and Interpretive Approaches to Communication Theory
CHAPTER 3
Weighing the Words
CHAPTER 4
Mapping the Territory (Seven Traditions in the Field of
Communication Theory)
DIVISION TWO
INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
Interpersonal Messages
CHAPTER 5
Symbolic Interactionism
of Judee Burgoon
CHAPTER 7
Family Communication Patterns Theory
Relationship Development
CHAPTER 8
Social Penetration Theory
of Charles Berger
CHAPTER 10
Social Information Processing Theory
of Joseph Walther
Relationship Maintenance
CHAPTER 11
Relational Dialectics Theory
of Sandra Petronio
CHAPTER 13
Media Multiplexity Theory
of Caroline Haythornthwaite
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DIVISION THREE
SOCIAL INFLUENCE
Persuasion
CHAPTER 14
Social Judgment Theory
of Leon Festinger
Public Rhetoric
CHAPTER 17
The Rhetoric
of Aristotle
CHAPTER 18
Dramatism
of Kenneth Burke
CHAPTER 19
Narrative Paradigm
of Walter Fisher
DIVISION FOUR
GROUP AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION
Group Communication
CHAPTER 20
Functional Perspective on Group Decision Making
of Ernest Bormann
Organizational Communication
CHAPTER 22
Cultural Approach to Organizations
of Robert McPhee
CHAPTER 24
Critical Theory of Communication in Organizations
of Stanley Deetz
DIVISION FIVE
CULTURAL CONTEXT
Intercultural Communication
CHAPTER 25
Communication Accommodation Theory
of Howard Giles
CHAPTER 26
Face-Negotiation Theory
of Stella Ting-Toomey
CHAPTER 27
Co-Cultural Theory
of Mark Orbe
CHAPTER 28
Afrocentricity
of Cheris Kramarae
DIVISION SIX
MASS COMMUNICATION
of Marshall McLuhan
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CHAPTER 32
Context Collapse
C.
Cætera desunt, vi. 121.
calamity, the rub that makes, etc., xii. 199.
call evil good and good evil, to, xi. 341.
Call not so loud or they will hear us, vii. 377.
call up him who left half-told, And, xii. 27.
Calling each by name, etc., ix. 401.
Calm contemplation and majestic pains, iv. 274; vi. 26; ix. 44.
Calm contemplation and poetic ease, v. 71; xi. 432, 508.
calm, peaceable writers, vi. 254.
came, saw, and were satisfied, we, viii. 455.
Canning had the most elegant mind since Virgil, xi. 336 n.
canny ways and pawky looks, xii. 91.
canonised bones, his, vi. 58.
cant religious, cant political, etc., xii. 338.
capacity, a greater general, etc., x. 178.
caput mortuum, xi. 495.
careful after many things, They are, etc., xii. 197.
Care, mad to see a man so happy, etc., v. 129.
Care mounted behind the horseman, etc., vi. 87.
cares, And ever against eating, etc., xii. 142.
Carnage is its daughter! i. 214; vii. 374; viii. 348.
Carnage is her daughter, iii. 120 n.
Carnage was the daughter of Humanity, i. 391 n.; iii. 166.
Carnation was a colour he never could abide, xi. 457.
Carlo Maratti succeeded better than those, etc., vi. 124.
carries noise, and behind it, it leaves tears, it, viii. 348.
cast both body and soul into hell, xii. 359.
cast some longing, lingering looks behind, viii. 250.
Castalie, the dew of, v. 14; x. 156; xii. 294.
castle walls crumbled into ashes, his, etc., viii. 309.
casuist, that noble and liberal, i. 235; viii. 186.
cat and canary-bird, the, etc., x. 195.
catalogue they go for actors, in the, viii. 465.
Catch a king and kill a king, xi. 551.
Catch ere she falls, The Cynthia of the minute, xi. 402.
catch glimpses that may make them less forlorn! vi. 27; xi. 267; xii.
42.
catch the breezy air, vii. 70.
cathedral’s gloom and choir, The, etc., ix. 207; xi. 535.
Caucasus, the frosty, xii. 149.
cause of evil, re-risen, iii. 117.
cause was hearted, the, xii. 288.
Cease your funning, viii. 194, 255, 323. 470.
censure the age, When they, etc., vii. 377.
Centaur not fabulous, xii. 228.
certain lady of a manor, a, i. 422; xi. 273 n.
certain little gentleman, a, iii. 312.
Certain so wroth are they, iii. 268.
certain tender bloom his fame o’erspreads, A, xii. 207, 262.
Certainly, as her eyelids are more pleasant to behold, etc., v. 324.
C’est un mauvais métier que celui de médire, vii. 205.
Chaldee wise, The, etc., v. 292.
Challenges essoine, from every work he, xii. 46, 225.
chamber, was dispainted all within, His, etc., viii. 128.
chapel-bell, the little, xii. 305.
chargeable, very, x. 172.
Charity begins at home, iii. 289; xi. 319.
Charity covers a multitude of sins, vii. 83; viii. 33.
charm these deaf adders wisely, xi. 415.
Charming Betsy Careless, the, viii. 144.
Charron, Or more wise, viii. 93 n.
chase his fancy’s rolling speed, x. 120.
cheap defence, i. 295.
cheat the gallows face, xi. 551.
cheese-parings, as a saving of, etc., vii. 273.
chemist, statesman, fiddler and buffoon, i. 85; x. 207.
cherish our prejudices, etc., xii. 395.
child and champion of Jacobinism, iii. 99, 227; iv. 6; xi. 422.
child is father to the man, the, vii. 231; xi. 334.
children of yon azure sheen, As are the, xii. 262.
children of the world are wiser, the, etc., xi. 522; xii. 298.
children’s play, Come, let us leave off, etc., iii. 132.
children sporting, We see the, etc., vi. 92; xii. 130.
chips of short-lung’d Seneca, The dry, etc., x. 98.
chop off his head, viii. 201.
choosing songs the Regent named, In, etc., iv. 359.
Christ, inscribed the cross of, etc., xii, 261.
Christ Jesus! what mighty crime, etc., vi. 239.
Christian could die! to see how a, xii. 330.
chrysolite, this one entire and perfect, xii. 105, 235.
Ci giace il gran Titiano di Vecelli, etc., ix. 270.
Circled Una’s angel face, and made a sunshine in the shady place,
v. 46; x. 77.
cities in Romanian lands, Of all the, etc., xii. 323.
city, no mean, ix. 69.
city set on a hill, a, etc., x. 335.
clad in flesh and blood, i. 13, 135.
Clad in the wealthy robes his genius wrought, etc., ii. 108.
Clamour grew dumb, unheard was shepherd’s song, etc., v. 315.
clap on high his coloured winges twain, v. 35; x. 74.
clappeth his wings, and straightway he is gone, viii. 404; ix. 70.
clear it from all controversy, to, etc., iv. 335; vi. 52.
Cleopatra, will be the fatal, xii. 310.
clerk there was of Oxenford also, A, etc., i. 84.
clock that wants both hands, A, etc., viii. 434.
Close to the gate a spacious garden lies, etc., ix. 325.
clothed and fed, with which they are, ix. 93.
cloud by day, neither the, etc., ix. 361.
clouds in which Death hid himself, the, etc., vii. 14.
clouds of detraction, of envy and lies, through, vii. 367.
clouds over the Caspian, like two, xii. 11.
Cockney School in Poetry, xii. 256 n.
coil and pudder, xi. 554; xii. 335, 383.
Cold drops of sweat sit dangling on my hairs, etc., v. 212.
cold icicles, the, from his rough beard Dropped adown upon her
snowy breast! v. 38.
cold rheum, vi. 304.
Colonel took upon him to wear a shirt, x. 382; xii. 142.
colouring of Titian, the grace of Raphael, etc., vi. 74.
come betwixt the wind and their nobility, vii. 378.
come, but no farther, xii. 108.
Come, gentle Spring, etc., v. 86.
come home to the bosoms and businesses of men, i. 200; v. 333;
vii. 293, 337; viii. 91; xi. 548; xii. 377, 400.
Come, kiss me, love, viii. 265.
Come, live with me and be my love, v. 99, 211, 298.
Come, say before all these, etc., viii. 265.
Come then, the colours and the ground prepare, etc., vii. 290; viii.
73, 186; xi. 240.
comes like a satyr, iv. 246.
comes the tug of war, viii. 219.
comforted with their bright radiance, xi. 346.
coming and going he knew not where, i. 90.
Coming events cast their shadow before, vii. 50; x. 221; xii. 113.
Coming, gentlemen, coming, x. 382.
Coming Reviews cast their shadows before, x. 221.
common people always prefer exertion and agility to grace, ix. 173.
companion of my way, Let me have a, etc., vi. 182.
companion of the lonely hour, xii. 53.
companions of the spring, The painted birds, xi. 271.
company, Tell me your, etc., vi. 202; xi. 196; xii. 133.
compelled to give in evidence against himself, i. 129.
complex constable, that, iii. 299.
compost heap, a, vi. 37.
Compound for sins they are inclin’d to, etc., viii. 18.
conceit or the world well lost, all for, xii. 363.
condemned to everlasting fame, x. 375.
confined in too narrow room, iii. 290.
conformed to this world, to be, iii. 275; viii. 146.
Conniving house (as the gentlemen of Trinity), etc., i. 56.
conquering and to conquer, xi. 418.
conscience and tender heart, Where all is, ii. 371; iii. 155; iv. 204,
326; vi. 165; vii. 173, 280; x. 238.
conspicuous scene, etc., xii. 31.
constant chastity, unspotted faith, etc., iii. 208.
constrained by mastery, iii. 166; iv. 220; v. 86; vii. 197; viii. 404; ix.
17; xii. 188.
constrain his genius by mastery, viii. 479.
consummation of the art devoutly to be wished, a, viii. 190; xii. 125.
contagious gentleness, viii. 309.
contemporary bards would be admired when Homer and Virgil
were forgotten, xi. 288.
contempt of the choice of the people, i. 394, 427; iii. 32 and n., 175,
401.
contempt of their worshippers, in, xii. 244.
content man’s natural desire, vi. 324.
Continents have more, of what they contain, etc., iii. 272; vi. 205;
xii. 16.
Contra audentior ito, xi. 514.
conversation, To excel in, etc., vii. 32.
converse with the mighty dead, Hold high, ix. 69.
convertible to the same abandoned purpose, iii. 91.
cooped and cabined in by saucy doubts and fears, viii. 477; xii. 125.
copied the other, Which of you, ix. 33.
Corinthian capitals of polished society, the, iv. 290; xii. 131.
coronet face, the, xii. 226.
Corporate bodies have no soul, vi. 264.
corrupter sort of mere politiques, The, etc., v. 329.
could be content if the species were continued like trees, he, v. 334.
could he lay sacrilegious hands, etc., viii. 269.
counterfeiten chere, To, etc., iii. 268.
courage never to submit, etc., xii. 192.
courtly, the court, viii. 55; ix. 61.
courtiers offended should be, lest the, etc., iii. 45; viii. 457.
Cover her face: my eyes dazzle: she died young, v. 246.
covers a multitude of sins, vii. 83; viii. 33.
coxcombs, the prince of, proud of being at the head, etc., viii. 36,
83.
crack of ploughs and kine, xii. 380.
Craignez Dieu, mon cher Abner, etc., ix. 116.
Created hugest that swim the oceanstream, vii. 13.
Creation’s tenant, he is nature’s heir, xi. 500.
creature of the element, a, etc., xii. 30.
Credat Judæus Apella, xii. 266.
Credo quia impossibile est, vii. 351.
credulous hope, the, etc., xii. 321.
cries all the way from Portsmouth, etc., viii. 322.
crisis is at hand for every man to take part for, the, etc., vi. 154.
crown which Ariadne wore, etc., x. 186.
crown of the head, From the, etc., xii., 247.
cruel sunshine thrown by fortune on a fool, etc., xi. 550.
crust of formality, a, vi. 356.
cry more tuneable, A, etc., xii. 18.
cubit from his stature, a, viii. 263.
Cucullus non facit monachum, vii. 236.
Cuique tribuito suum, v. 368; vii. 191.
Cupid and my Campaspe play’d, etc., v. 201.
Cupid, as he lay among Roses, by a bee was stung, v. 312.
cups that cheer, but not inebriate, The, etc., vi. 184.
cure for a narrow and selfish spirit, a, xii. 429.
curiosa felicitas, v. 149; xi. 606.
curl her hair so crisp and pure, to, etc., viii. 465.
curtain-close such scenes, And, etc., xii. 328.
Cut is the branch that might have grown full strait, etc., v. 206.
cut up so well in the cawl, They do not, etc., iii. 321; vii. 202; viii.
340.
cuts the common link, xii. 402.
Cymocles, oh! I burn, etc., x. 245.
D.
daily food and nourishment of the mind of the artist, the, etc., vi.
125, 126.
daily intercourse of all this unintelligible world, the, etc., viii. 420.
dainty flower or herb that grows on ground, No, etc., iv. 353.
dallies with the innocence of thought, That, etc., xii. 177.
Damn you, can’t you be cool, etc., iii. 226.
damnation round the land, iv. 224.
dancing days, Such were the joys of our, etc., viii. 437; xi. 300.
dandled and swaddled, vi. 270.
Dapple, and there I spoke of him, There I thought of, vi. 61.
dark closet, with a little glimmering of light, a, etc., xi. 174.
darkness dare affront, and with their, xii. 198.
darkness that might be felt, in, iii. 57; vi. 43.
darling in the public eye, iv. 298.
darlings of his precious eye, the, xii. 195.
dashed and brewed, vii. 140; x. 235.
dateless bargain, to all engrossing despotism, a, xi. 414.
daughter and his ducats, his, xii. 142 n.
daughters of memory, the, iv. 348.
day, It was the, etc., viii. 288.
Dazzled with excess of light, viii. 551.
dazzling fence of argument, the, xii. 358.
De apparentibus et non existentibus eadem est ratio, v. 341 n.; vii.
50; xii. 56, 217.
De mortius nil nisi bonum, viii. 323.
de omne scibile et quibusdam aliis, vi. 214; vii. 315.
de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis, xi. 467.
d’un pathetique à faire fendre les rochers, vi. 236.
deaf the praised ear, and mute the tuneful tongue, v. 274.
Dear chorister, who from these shadows sends, etc., v. 300.
Death may be called in vain, and cannot come, etc., v. 357.
death there is animation too, Even in, ix. 221.
deathless date, vi. 291.
decked in purple and in pall, etc., viii. 308.
declamations or set speeches, His, are commonly cold, etc., i. 177.
decorum is the principal thing, v. 360.
dedicate its sweet leaves, i. 386.
Deem not devoid of elegance the sage, By Fancy’s genuine feelings
unbeguiled, etc., v. 120.
deep abyss of time, fast anchored in the, vii. 125.
deep, within that lowest, etc., xii. 144.
defections, his right-handed, etc.,
vii. 181.
defend the right, to, x. 167.
degree, in a high or low, etc., xi. 442.
Deh! quando tu sarai tornato al mondo, ix. 251.
Deh vieni alla finestra, viii. 365.
deity they shout around, A present, etc., x. 191; xii. 250.
deliberately or for money, iv. 339; vi. 56.
delicious breath painting sends forth, What a, etc., ix. 19.
delicious thought, of being regarded as a clever fellow, i. 93 n.
delight in love, ’tis when I see, If there’s, etc., viii. 73.
delight in! to fear, not to, xii. 243.
Deliverance for mankind, vi. 152 n.
Delphin edition of Nature, xi. 335.
Demades, the Athenian, condemned a fellow-citizen, etc., viii. 94.
Demanded how we can know any proposition, but here it will be,
etc., xi. 130.
Demogorgon, dreaded name of, the, xii. 259.
demon that he served, the, vii. 285.
demon whispered, L——, have a taste, Some, vi. 94, 403.
demure, grave-looking, spring-nailed, the, etc., vi. 221; vii. 242; xi.
530.
Depreciation of Pope is partly founded upon a false idea, etc., xi.
490.
depth of a forest, in the kingdom of Indostan, In the, etc., xi. 267.
Descended from the Irish kings, etc., i. 54.
deserter of Smorgonne, iii. 54.
Desire to please, etc., viii. 278; xii. 177, 183, 426.
Despise low joys, etc., xii. 31.
Despise low thoughts, low gains, etc., v. 77.
Destroy his fib or sophistry: in vain, etc., iv. 300.
Detur optimo, vii. 187.
Deva’s winding vales, xii. 265.
devil said plainly that Dame Chat had got the needle, the, v. 288.
Devil was sick, The, etc., xii. 126.
Devil upon two sticks, viii. 404.
devilish girl at the bottom, a, viii. 83.
Di rider finira pria della Aurora, iii. 371.
diamond turrets of Shadukiam, the, iv. 357.
Diana and her fawn, etc., xii. 58.
Did first reduce our tongue from Lyly’s writing, etc., v. 201.
Did I not tell thee, Dauphine, etc., viii. 43.
Did not the Duke look up? Methought he saw us, v. 215.
Die of a rose in aromatic pain, vi. 249; vii. 300; viii. 143; ix. 391.
Died at his house in Burbage-street, etc., vi. 86.
differences himself by, v. 334.
digito monstrari, vi. 286.
dim doubts alloy, no, xi. 321.
dip it in the ocean, and it will stand, iv. 197; vi. 160 n.; ix. 133 n.
dipped in dews of Castalie, v. 14; x. 156; xii. 294.
direct and honest, To be, etc., xii. 219.
disappointed still are still deceived, And, ix. 287.
disastrous strokes which his youth suffered, the, viii. 96.
discipline of humanity, a, i. 123; vii. 78, 184; xii. 122.
discoursed in eloquent music, vii. 199.
disdain the ground she walks on, i. 71 n.
disembowel himself of his natural entrails, etc., vi. 267; xi. 322.
disjecta membra poetæ, viii. 423; ix. 309.
distant, enthusiastic, respectful love, viii. 160.
distilled books are, like distill’d waters, etc., xi. 203.
divest him, along with his inheritance, to, etc., viii. 72.
Divide et impera, vii. 147.
divinæ particula auræ, ix. 361; xii. 157.
divine Fanny Bias, iv. 359.
divine, the matchless, what you will, the, vi. 175.
Do not mock me: Though I am tamed, and bred up with my
wrongs, etc., v. 252.
Do unto others as you would, etc., vi. 396.
Do you read or sing? If you sing you sing very ill, vii. 5; viii. 319.
Do you see anything ridiculous in this wig? viii. 21.
Do you think I’ll sleep with a woman that doesn’t know what’s
trumps? viii. 427.
docked and curtailed, xi. 316.
Does he wind into a subject? etc., vii. 275; viii. 103.
does a little bit of fidgets, viii. 469.
dog, he still plays the, viii. 263.
dogs, among the gentlemanlike, etc., iii. 278.
Don John of the Greenfield was coming, vi. 359.
Don Juan was my Moscow, etc., iv. 258 n.
Don’t forget butter, viii. 264.
Don’t you remember Lords—and—who are now great statesmen;
little dirty boys playing at cricket, etc., v. 118; vii. 205.
double night of ages and of her, The, etc., xi. 424.
Doubtless the pleasure is as great, etc., iii. 169; vii. 204; viii. 302.
douce humanité, iii. 36; xi. 525.
doux sommeil, iii. 108.
Down the Bourne and through the Mead, ii. 87.
dragged the struggling monster into day, viii. 164.
dramatic star of the first magnitude, a, viii. 164.
drawn in their breath and puffed it forth again, vii. 59.
dreaming and awake, ’twixt, vi. 71.
dregs of earth, the, xii. 41.
dregs of life, the, vii. 302.
Dress makes the man, the want of it the fellow, etc., vii. 212.
Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, etc., v. 306.
dross compared to the glory hereafter, etc., xi. 322.
drossy and divisible, more, vii. 173, 453; xi. 174.
drunk full ofter of the tun than of the well, v. 129.
dry discourse, but, xi. 25.
Duke and no Duke, viii. 263.
Dulce ridentem Lalagen, Dulce loquentem, vi. 61.
Dull as the lake that slumbers in the storm, iii. 22; vii. 278.
Dull Beotian genius, viii. 370.
dull cold winter does inhabit here, vii. 176; ix. 62.
dull product of a scoffer’s pen, v. 114.
dulness could no further go, The force of, vi. 46 n.; x. 219, 377.
dumb forgetfulness a prey, for who to, xi. 546.
Dum domus Æneæ Capitoli immobile saxum, etc., vii. 12.
dungeon of the tower, From the, etc., xii. 158.
durance vile, xi. 237.
Durham’s golden stalls, iii. 123.
dust in the balance, But as the, iv. 63.
Dust to dust, etc., xii. 53.
dust we raise! What a, vi. 240.
dwelleth not in temples made with hands, ix. 48.
dwelt Eternity, ix. 218.
dying Ned Careless, viii. 72.
dying shepherd Damætas, I give it to you as the, etc., xi. 289.
E.
Each lolls his tongue out at the other, etc., xi. 527.
Each man takes hence life, but no man death, etc., v. 225.
ear and eye, He is all, etc., xii. 121.
earth, earthy, of the, i. 239; vi. 43; ix. 55, 389.
ease, he takes his, xii. 123.
eat, drink, and are merry, xii. 16.
eat his meal in peace, vi. 94.
Ebro’s temper, the, viii. 103.
eclipsed the gaiety of nations, i. 157; viii. 387, 526.
Eden, and Eblis, and cherub smiles, iv. 354.
Edina’s darling Seat, xii. 253.
Edinburgh, We are positive when we say, etc., viii. 105.
effeminate! thy freedom hath made me, xii. 124.
Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound, etc., v. 36.
eggs, with five blue, i. 92.
Eke fully with the duke my mind agrees, etc., v. 194.
elbow us aside, who, iv. 99.
elegant Petruchio, an, v. 345.
Elevate and surprise, vi. 216, 290; x. 271, 388.
elegant turn of her head, ix. 147.
eleven obstinate fellows, the other, xii. 326.
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, vii. 366.
Elysian dreams of lovers, when they loved, Th’, etc., viii. 307.
embowelled, of our natural entrails, and stuffed, are, viii. 417.
embryo fly, the little airy of ricketty children, iv. 246.
Emelie that fayrer was to sene, etc., i. 400.