Communication basic topics

These should be the most basic topics in the field--topics about which we'd like to have articles soon. Please see the most basic encyclopedia article topics for general instructions on constructing this list, and consult complete list of encyclopedia topics.

General

Alphabet -- Communication -- [Communication theory]? -- Dialetic? -- Information -- Information theory -- Journalism -- Language -- Library -- Persuasion -- Printing? -- Propaganda -- [Public speaking]? -- Speech? -- Rhetoric -- Semiotics -- Sophist? -- Symbol? -- Translation

People

Aristotle -- [Charles Berger]? -- Cicero -- Claude Shannon -- [Dalmas Taylor]? -- [George Herbert Mead]? -- [I. A. Richards]? -- [Irving Janis]? -- [Irwin Altman]? -- Marshall McLuhan -- Noam Chomsky -- Plato -- Quintilian? -- [Roland Barthes]? -- [Walter Fisher]? -- [Warren Weaver]?

Media and Technology

Book -- Computer network -- Image? -- Internet -- Film -- Mail? -- Mass media -- Radio -- Reading? -- Telephone -- Television -- Video -- Writing