Composing relationships
Subtitle: communication in everyday life
By: edited by Julia T. Wood, Steve Duck.
Contributors: Wood, Julia T.
Series: Wadsworth series in communication studies
Publisher: Thomson/Wadsworth
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Belmont, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Communication -- Philosophy
Table of contents: title: Everyday communication in personal relationships: Play, playfulness, and the players, everyday interaction as improvised rehearsal of relationships; Chopping the carrots, creating intimacy moment by moment / J.T. Wood; Cat walk compensations, everyday communication in dating relationships / M. Dainton; "He Started It!", everyday communication in parenting / T.M. Muchlhoff; "Them's Fightin' word", naming in everyday talk between siblings / J.H. Nicholson; Cat puzzle recovered, composing relationships through family ritual / C. Business and A. Hoefs; title: Everyday communication in social relationship: Hanging out and doing lunch, enacting friendship closeness / S. Metts; Shopping or and with friends, everyday communication at the shopping malt / D.O. Braithwaite and J.K. Kellas; <where r u?><here u?>, everyday communication with relational technologies / W.J. Carl; Relational life in the 21 st century, managing people, time, and distance / E.M. Sahlstein; He has two mommies, constructing lesbian families in social conversation / E.A. Suter; Sorority sisters speaking social support / M.K. Foley; title: Everyday communication in workplace relationships: Cabbages and headache cures, work stories within the family / C. Cockburn-Wootten and T.E. Zorn; Communicating race and WeighCo / B.J. Allen; Helpful professional relating, constructing mentoring relationships through everyday talk / M.L. Hecht and J.R. Warren; Constructing working-class masculinity in the workplace / D.K. Mumby; Composing relationships at work, three minutes at a wholesale produce market / H.B. Mokros; Who am I right now?, negotiating familial and professional roles / L.D. Totten; title: Glossary.