Family communication as... : exploring metaphors for family communication / edited by Jimmie Manning, Jordan Allen, Katherine J Denker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manning, Jimmie, editor.

Allen, Jordan (Assistant professor of communication studies), editor.

Denker, Katherine J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in families.

Physical Description:

xix, 229 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2023]

Summary:

"Before the last half of the twentieth century, the phrase "family communication as relationship" would have struck a reader as unintelligible. Communication between and among family members was neither an object of scientific study nor a focus of individual reflection or cultural analysis. Moreover, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word relationship first appeared in 1744 but was not applied "specifically of romantic or sexual relationships" for another two hundred years. The field of communication made a turn to studying communication in relationships and the family during the late 1960s and 1970s as it abandoned the common but fairly bloodless definition of interpersonal communication as face-to-face communication between two people. Influenced by classic works in family systems theory, such as that by Satir (1972), Watzlawick, Beavin, and Jackson (1967), and Bateson (1972), the field adopted the metaphor of the family as a system of relationships built, maintained, changed, and destabilized through interaction. Within ten years, Galvin and Brommel (1982) had produced a textbook on family communication that could overview the extensive research analyzing patterns of interaction within families. Starting with couple interaction data (Gottman 1979), Gottman (2002) built a strong mathematical model for the metaphors of family interaction presented in the family system theories. Even though the metaphor of family communication as relationship has generated important research directions, some theorists argue that metaphors are imprecise, ambiguous, and therefore have no place in scientific discourse. But language, even much scientific language, is metaphorical because we discuss one thing in terms of another (Lakoff and Johnson 1980). Of course, literal statements (e.g., the cat sits on the mat) are possible but as soon as we move from concrete physical experience to talk about abstractions, we employ metaphor."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Family Communication as Choice: Thinking about and Theorizing Family / Jimmie Manning

2. Family Communication as Relationship / Mary Anne Fitzpatrick

3. Family Communication as Ritual / Robert D. Hall

4. Family Communication as Biology / Amanda Denes

5. Family Communication as Maintenance / Scott A. Myers

6. Family Communication as Transition / Glen H. Stamp

7. Family Communication as Social Identity / Morgan April

8. Family Communication as Heteronormative / Yachao Li

9. Family Communication as Raced / Megan E. Cardwetl

10. Family Communication as Embodied / Laura L. Ellingson

11. Family Communication as Performance / Nivea Castaneda

12. Family Communication as Narrative / Toni Morgan

13. Family Communication as Dialogue / Leah M. Seurer

14. Family Communication as Object Nishani: Mother Objects in Other Worlds / Devika Chawla

15. Family Communication as Memory / Robin M. Boylorn

16. Family Communication as Boundary / Jeffrey T. Child

17. Family Communication as Organization / Caryn E. Medved

18. Family Communication as Health / Christina G. Yoshimura

19. Family Communication as Mediated / Danielle M. Stern

20. Family Communication as (an) Art / Kimberly Kuiper

21. Family Communication as Argument / Erin S. Craw

22. Family Communication as Deviance / Elizabeth Dorrance Hall

23. Family Communication as Taboo / Amanda J. Holman

24. Family Communication as Failure / Jacqueline Emerine

25. Family Communication as Death / Jillian A. Tullis

26. Family Communication as Forgiveness / Vincent R. Waldron

27. Family Communication as Support / Michael Robert Dennis

28. Family Communication as Resilience / Allison Mazur.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Family communication as...

ISBN:

9781119668398

1119668395

OCLC:

1293449744