Communication and personal relationships

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Communication and personal relationships

edited by Kathryn Dindia and Steve Duck

John Wiley, c2000

  • : pbk

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Handbook of personal relationships

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"Provides an expanded and up-to-date version of a section in the original Handbook of personal relationships (second edition) edited by Steve Duck and his colleagues"--Half t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-203) and indexes

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Description

The dynamics of personal relationships are of growing interest to students and, consequently, courses on personal relationships are increasingly popular. This volume in the five book Personal Relationships series answers the need for an economical text that examines the dynamics of communication processes in relationships.

Table of Contents

Talking about "Relationships": Variations on a Theme (L. VanderVoort & S. Duck). Relationships as Stories: Accounts, Storied Lives, Evocative Narratives (A. Bochner, et al.). Rethinking Communication in Personal Relationships from a Dialectical Perspective (L. Baxter & B. Montgomery). Communication Networks and Relationship Life Cycles (M. Parks). Face and Facework: Implications for the Study of Personal Relationships (S. Metts). Interpersonal Relationships and Mental Health Problems (C. Segrin). Cross-sex Friendship Research as Ideological Practice (K. Werking). Toward a Theory of Obsessive Relational Intrusion and Stalking (W. Cupach, et al.). Self-disclosure, Identity, and Relationship Development: A Dialectical Perspective (K. Dindia). References. Indexes.

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