New Directions in Interpersonal Communication Research
Much of the success of New Directions stems from the editors’ selection of strong contributors. These are definitely the people to be reading. Perhaps more important, the editors asked contributors to tell the story of their research by addressing basic questions on the origins of their work, the methods they used, their most important findings and challenges, and the directions they and other might take the work in the future. The result is a book that is at once more engaging than recent encyclopedias and handbooks and more substantive than recent textbooks surveying theories of interpersonal communication. In my view New Directions offers the best graduate/professional level introduction to the field of interpersonal communication currently available. It is compact, accessible, and authoritative. (Journal of Communication 2009-10-07)"Books, particularly edited volumes, rarely succeed in expressing either a sense of history or a clear vision of the discipline’s leading edge.New Directions in Interpersonal Communication Research, succeeds at both." (Malcolm Parks 2010-03-03)