Interpretative approaches to interpersonal communication / edited by Kathryn Carter and Mick Presnell.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [1994], ©1994.
Description
vi, 272 pages ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s)
Related name
Series
  • SUNY series in human communication processes. [More in this series]
  • SUNY series, human communication processes
Summary note
  • This groundbreaking book presents conceptual, theoretical, and applied chapters demonstrating the strengths of interpretive approaches in the study of interpersonal communication. It extends our understanding of interpersonal communication through the incorporation of interpretive and critical theory paradigms. Until now, no text has systematically described interpersonal communication and theory by drawing on insights from interpretive or critical theory approaches.
  • The authors fill two contemporary needs: (1) they provide a collection of essays that raises theoretical and methodological issues in the study of interpersonal communication relevant to all researchers in this area of study, and (2) they present a general approach to interpersonal communication that has gained wide acceptance among practitioners and educators, but has been under-represented by advanced research texts.
  • Included here are interpretive and critical perspectives including phenomenology, feminism, hermeneutics, symbolic interactionism, semiotics, and postmodern ethnography. The book provides information that extends our understandings of interpersonal communication by demonstrating the ways in which interpretive perspectives can contribute to the development of theory and research on interpersonal communication.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction / Mick Presnell and Kathryn Carter
  • 1. Postmodern Ethnography: From Representing the Other to Co-Producing a Text / Mick Presnell
  • 2. An Interpretive Approach to Validity in Interpersonal Communication Research / John Stewart
  • 3. Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophy of Language: A Constitutive-Dialogic Approach to Interpersonal Understanding / Kenneth W. White
  • 4. Dialectic of Difference: A Thematic Analysis of Intimates' Meanings for Differences / Julia T. Wood, Lisa L. Dendy, Eileen Dordek, Meg Germany and Sharon M. Varallo
  • 5. On Interpersonal Competence / Carina P. Sass
  • 6. Discourse Without Rules / Kelly Coyle
  • 7. Listening Authentically: A Heideggerian Perspective on Interpersonal Communication / R. Bruce Hyde
  • 8. Interpretation in Unsettled Times / Debra Grodin
  • 9. The Ethics of Feminist Self-Disclosure / Barbara L. Baker and Carol L. Benton.
  • 10. A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Relationship Between Perceived Coolness and Communication Competence / Leda M. Cooks and David Descutner.
ISBN
  • 0791418472 (alk. paper)
  • 0791418480 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
93007710
OCLC
502545687
RCP
C - S
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