The procedures involved in creating and certifying theories constructed within the laws, systems, and rules perspectives of human communication are compared and contrasted in order to delimit the focuses of a rules perspective to theory construction. A review is provided of the approach by Cushman and his associates to human communication within the rules perspective. The author attempts to extend the previous analysis by developing a rules theory of interpersonal communication.
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