1) Action Assembly Theory
2 Activity-based Communication Analysis
3) Adaptive Structuration Theory
4) Affect Infusion Model
5) Affiliative Conflict Theory
6) Agenda-Setting Theory
7) Allen Curve
9) Altercasting
10) Anxiety-Uncertainty Management Theory
11) Argumentation Theory
12) Attraction-Selection-Attrition Framework
13) Attribution Theory
14) Bona Fide Groups
15) Bounded Emotionality
16) Calculus of Concepts
17) Capacity Theory
18) Categorical Imperative
19) Cognitive Dissonance theory
20) Cognitive Valence Theory
21) Communication Accommodation Theory
22) Communication Privacy Management Theory
23) Communitarian Ethics
24) Compliance Gaining Strategies
25) Computer Mediated Communication
26) Constructivism
27) Contextual Design
28) Coordinated Management of Meaning
29) Critical Theory of Communication in Organizations
30) Cultivation Theory
31) Cybernetics
32) Decoding Communication
33) Dependency Theory
34) Dialogic Theory
35) Different Voice
36) Diffusion of Innovations Theory
37) Discourse Ethics-Theory of Communicative Action
38) Discourse Studies
39) Discursive Formation
40) Dramatism
41) Ecolinguistics
42) Egalitarian Dialogue
43) Elaboration Likelihood Model
44) Ethics in Business Communication
45) Expectancy Value Theory
46) Expectancy Violations Theory
47) Face Negotiation Theory
48) Fiction theory
49) FIRO Theory
50) Framing
51) Functional Perspective on Group Decision Making
52) Gatekeeping
53) Genderlect Styles
54) General Semantics
55) Goals-Plans-Action Model
56) Groupthink
57) Harold Innis’s Communications Theories
58) Health Belief Model
59) High- and Low-Context Communication
60) Hyperpersonal Model
61) Hypodermic Needle Theory
62) Image Restoration Theory
63) Information Manipulation Theory
64) Information Theory
65) Integrative Communication Theory
66) Interact System Model of Decision Emergence
67) Interaction Adaptation Theory
68) Interaction Process Analysis
69) Interactional View
70) Interactive Universalism
71) Interpersonal Adaptation Theory
72) Interpersonal Deception Theory
73) Invocational Media
74) Knowledge Gap
75) Language Expectancy Theory
76) Lasswell’s Model of Communication
77) Law of the Suppression of Radical Potential
78) LC4MP
79) Linguistic Relativity
80) Loaded Language
81) Mean World Syndrome
82) Media Ecology
83) Media Equation
84) Media Richness Theory
85) Mediated quasi-interaction
86) Mediational Theory of Meaning
87) Mediatization of Communicative Action
88) Medium Theory
89) Message Design Logic
90) Metacommunicative Competence
91) Miller’s Law
92) Minimalism
93) Model of Text Comprehension
94) Models of Communication
95) Modernization Theory
96) Monopolies of Knowledge
97) Mood management theory
98) Muted Group Theory
99) Narrative Paradigm
100) Narrative Theory
101) Network Theory and Analysis
102) Non-verbal Leakage
103) Organon Model
104) Performance Ethnography
105) Phenomenology
106) Postmodernism
107) Predicted Outcome Value Theory
108) Priming (media)
109) Principle of Veracity
110) Problematic Integration Theory
111) Prophetic Pragmatism
112) Protection Motivation Theory
113) Proxemic Theory
114) Psycho-Linguistic Theory
115) Reduces Social Cues Approach
116) Reinforcement Theory
117) Relational Control
118) Relational Dialectics
119) Rhetoric
120) Secondary Orality
121) Semiotics
122) Shabda
123) Significant Choice
124) Situational Crisis Communication Theory
125) Social Cognitive Theory
126) Social Comparison Theory
127) Social Constructionism
128) Social Exchange Theory
129) Social Identity Model of Deindivuation Effects
130) Social Information Processing Theory
131) Social Judgment Theory
132) Social Learning Theory
133) Social Network
134) Social Objects
135) Social Penetration Theory
136) Social Presence Theory
137) Social Support
138) Social Undermining
139) Speech Act
140) Speech Codes Theory
141) Sphoṭa
142) Spiral of Silence
143) Standpoint Theory
144) Structural Linguistics
145) Structuration Theory
146) Symbolic Communication
147) Symbolic Convergence Theory
148) Symbolic Interactionism
149) System Theory
150) Text and Conversation Theory
151) Theory of Planned Behavior/ Reasoned Action
152) Toronto School of Communication Theory
153) Transactional Model of Stress and Coping
154) Two-Step Flow of Communication
155) Uncertainty Reduction Theory
156) Uses and Gratifications Theory
157) Wiio’s laws
158) Workplace communication
159) Yale Attitude Change
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