Your assignment may ask you to include a primary source (an article or book written by the theorist who created the communication theory you are using). This page highlights some primary sources in the library collection that may be helpful for you. You will also find suggestions for how to search for primary sources in the library collections.
For more help with finding other books or articles for this assignment, see the Finding Books and Finding Scholarly and Peer-Reviewed Articles pages of this guide.
Available at Bethlehem in Stacks
Call Number: BF1809 .F4
Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Leon Festinger
Available online as an eBook
Communication Privacy Management Theory
Sandra Petronio
Available at Bethlehem in Stacks
Call Number: P91.25 .G47 2002
Cultivation Analysis/ Cultivation Theory
George Gerbner & Larry Gross
Available at Bethlehem in Stacks
Call Number: BF592 .F33 T56 1994
Face Negotiation Theory
Stella Ting-Toomey
Available at Bethlehem in Stacks
Call Number: BF637 .C45 D515 2008
Expectancy Violations Theory
Judee Burgoon
and others
Available at Bethlehem in Stacks
Call Number: HM1211 .T47 2005
Expectancy Violations Theory
Judee Burgoon
and others
Narrative Paradigm
Walter Fisher
Organizational Culture Theory
Clifford Geertz
Groupthink
Irving Janis
Groupthink
Irving Janis
Social Penetration Theory
Irwin Altman & Dalmas Taylor
Rhetoric
Aristotle
At Bethlehem in Reserves
Call Number: HM251 .M4 1997
Symbolic Interactionism
George Herbert Mead
In many of the library's collections and databases, you can switch from the default keyword search to an author search, so that you can search for works written by your theorist that might be available in the library collections. Sometimes you may need to switch to the Advanced Search option before you can change to an Author search.
Communication Source Author Search example:
ProQuest Central Author Search example: