Communication and personal relationships / edited by Kathryn Dindia and Steve Duck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dindia, Kathryn.

Duck, Steve.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal communication.

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 217 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester ; New York : Wiley, [2000]

Contents:

1. Talking about "Relationships": Variations on a Theme / Lise VanderVoort, Steve Duck 1

2. Relationships as Stories: Accounts, Storied Lives, Evocative Narratives / Arthur P. Bochner, Carolyn Ellis, Lisa M. Tillman-Healy 13

3. Rethinking Communication in Personal Relationships from a Dialectical Perspective / Leslie A. Baxter, Barbara M. Montgomery 31

4. Communication Networks and Relationship Life Cycles / Malcolm R. Parks 55

5. Face and Facework: Implications for the Study of Personal Relationships / Sandra Metts 77

6. Interpersonal Relationships and Mental Health Problems / Chris Segrin 95

7. Cross-sex Friendship Research as Ideological Practice / Kathy J. Werking 113

8. Toward a Theory of Obsessive Relational Intrusion and Stalking / William R. Cupach, Brian H. Spitzberg, Christine L. Carson 131

9. Self-disclosure, Identity, and Relationship Development: A Dialectical Perspective / Kathryn Dindia 147.

Notes:

"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"--P. opp. t.p.

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

ISBN:

0471491330

OCLC:

43328933