Despite a growing emphasis on relationship studies in interpersonal communication, serious attention to the conceptual meaning of relationship has been limited. The purpose of this volume is to explore the meaning and use of relationship in interpersonal communication studies. The contributors to this volume, representatives of related, but differing perspectives, outline definitional boundaries and conceptual implications of the term stemming from their particular ontological and epistemological approaches. This volume provides an engaging and provocative examination of relationship by...
Despite a growing emphasis on relationship studies in interpersonal communication, serious attention to the conceptual meaning of relationship has ...
Richard Conville tackles the problem of how to think about the process nature of communication in personal relationships by moving beyond stage models of relational development and proposing a helical model which depicts a four-phase strucutre of transition between relational stages. The model is based on Difference developed as a theoretical concept, and on the structural analysis of relational partners' narratives of their transition experiences. Conville's perspective offers both a conceptual and a methodological alternative to current work in relationship development. Though its focus is...
Richard Conville tackles the problem of how to think about the process nature of communication in personal relationships by moving beyond stage models...
Conville has assembled a collection of essays that share a consideration of structure as it manifests itself in human communication. Personal stories, accounts of events, narratives, diaries, and unstructured interviews are ever more widely appreciated today as valid data for understanding human cognition and human interaction. Some chapters present solutions to the problem of how to analyze such materials and how to conceptualize them as data. Other chapters argue for the inevitability of structure in communication study. Still other chapters demonstrate structure in human communication....
Conville has assembled a collection of essays that share a consideration of structure as it manifests itself in human communication. Personal stori...
