BASICS OF COMMUNICATION THEORY: textbook / edited by professor M.A. Vasilik. - Moscow: Gardariki publishing, 2003. - 615 p. Illustrated.

This book examine issues concerning methodology of communication processes. It includes history and contemporary problems of communication theory - one of the promising sphere of scientific knowledge. Various modes and levels of communication are to be analyzed. Professinally oriented spheres of communication are specially emphasized. The manual`s content satisfies the requirements of the second generation of national standard of higher professional education in the discipline of "Basics of communication theory".

This book is of interest to students and specialists in such spheres as "Sociology", "Public Relations", "Personnel management", "Linguistic and cross-cultural communication", "Psychology", "Political science", "Management, "Journalism", "Advertising".

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