Relating
Subtitle: Dialogues and Dialectics
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Published: May 17, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781572300996
Subjects: Communication Studies; Social, group or collective psychology; Psychology; Dialogue analysis; Language Arts & Disciplines; Communication; Psychology & Psychiatry / Interpersonal Relations; Dialectic; Interpersonal Relations; Interpersonal communication
First sentence: Consider the following pairs of folk proverbs common to many Americans: "Opposites attract" but "Birds of a feather flock together."
Description: Drawing upon the dialogism of social theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, the authors re-conceive the core ideas of interpersonal communication - relationship development; closeness; certainty; openness; communication competence; and the boundaries between self, relationship, and society.