In Communicating and Relating, Robert B. Arundale presents a new theory of the fundamental communication process by which interacting persons co-constitute individuality, relationships and larger-scale social systems. Comprehensive in scope, deep in scholarship, empirically grounded and rigorously agued, this book is a model of systematic theory development that challenges previous conceptions of communication while charting a new way forward for research on
human interaction across the field.
Robert B. Arundale is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA. His research involves issues in language and social interaction related to understanding everyday language use in interpersonal communication. Recent publications focus on re-conceptualizing understandings of human communication and of human relating in view of research in conversation analysis.