Voicing relationships : a dialogic perspective / Leslie A. Baxter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baxter, Leslie A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal relations.

Dialogue analysis.

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.

Bakhtin, M. M.

Physical Description:

viii, 211 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, [2011]

Summary:

Extending on her 1996 seminal and award-winning book on relational dialectics theory, Relating Dialogues and Dialectics (co-authored with Barbara Montgomery), author Leslie Baxter presents the 'next generation' of the theory: relational dialogics theory. This theory, and book, explores a greater nuanced understanding of the unity of opposites concept, presenting a more theoretically complex treatment of this and other key dialogic concepts. The text develops a rich palette of dialogic concepts useful in the study of communication and relationships and is centered around the following concepts: (1) relationships are profoundly situated process - voices are always embodied in a specific space and time; (2) relationships are constituted in communication - they are voiced through verbal and nonverbal communicative practices; (3) relationships come to mean through the interplay of multiple, differing discourses.

Contents:

Introduction

Mikhail Bakhtin, dialogism, and RDT

Discursive struggles of culture

Discursive struggles of relational history, otherness, and normative evaluation

Centripetal-centrifugal struggle

Doing contrapuntal analysis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781412927840

1412927846

9781412927857

1412927854

OCLC:

426804713