Making Connections: Readings in Relational Communication - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195330641 ISBN 13: 9780195330649

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

The fourth edition of Making Connections has been updated, expanded, and reorganized to reflect the changing field of relational communication. New essays address emerging topics--including anti-comforting messages, friendship in urban tribes, and discourse-dependent families--while a new section on the "dark side" of communication features articles on such topics as lying and irresolvable conflicts. Three new essays in the technology section reflect current thinking on Internet-based interpersonal relationships; communication norms in an online support group; and how student use of technology challenges existent communication theories. This edition also adds a complete subject index and is accompanied by an Instructor's Manual.

Continuing the successful tradition and framework of previous editions, the fourth edition of Making Connections:

* Employs the "lenses" of gender, family, and culture to view and make sense of relational communication
* Offers a well-rounded discussion of the links between basic communication competencies and relationships
* Features a developmental approach in terms of initiating, sustaining, and ending relationships
* Reflects direct applications of relational issues within contexts of family, friendship, and technology
* Explores issues relating to computer-mediated communication and new technologies in everyday life

About this title

About the Author

Kathleen M. Galvin is at Northwestern University. Pamela J. Cooper is at the University of South Carolina, Beaufort.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195330641
• ISBN 13: 9780195330649
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 398
• Editor: Galvin Kathleen M., Cooper Pamela J.