"The Communication Theory Reader" provides a clear introduction to communication studies, presenting the most important work which has shaped the field of communication studies and sampling a range of theories from the disciplines of linguistics, semiotics, philosophy, literary theory, film theory and psychoanalysis. The articles are grouped in subject sections, with an editor's introduction, and indications of further reading together with a glossary and a comprehensive bibliography. Contributors: Ien Ang, J.L. Austin, Roland Barthes, Emile Benveniste, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Nick Browne, Steven Cohan, Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Stanley Fish, M.A.K. Halliday, Stephen Heath, Wolfgang Iser, Roman Jakobson, Gunther Kress, Jacques Lacan, Alan Luke, Theo van Leeuwen, Jerry Palmer, Charles Sanders Peirce, Janice A. Radway, Ferdinand de Saussure, John Searle, Linda M. Shires, Brian Torode, V.N. Volosinov, Judith Williamson