ABSTRACT
The second edition of this book again uses original case studies as a means to bring home to students, through lived experiences, the theories and concepts of interpersonal communication.
Each piece takes an arts-based approach—spanning essays, short stories, scripts, photographs, poetry— and has been newly written for this edition by communication researchers, writers, and artists. The case studies focus on the aesthetic dimensions of relating to illustrate to students the workings of relationship management with regards to friendship, race, class, gender, family interaction, sexuality, and other key topics in relational communication. The case studies are framed from a critical interpersonal perspective to encourage students to consider how power and cultural discourses about relationships influence their relating. Faulkner’s introduction to each section provides important pedagogical content to give context and meaning to the cases that follow. Each case closes with questions for discussion, activities, and additional resources to help students analyze the material.
The book is suited as core or supplemental reading for courses in interpersonal or relational communication.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Chapter 1|30 pages
What Is a Relationship?
part Chapter 2|42 pages
Health, Discourse, Dialectics, and Disclosure
chapter 5|10 pages
Run for their Lives
part Chapter 3|38 pages
Families, Parenting, and Communication
part Chapter 4|42 pages
The Social Self
chapter 16|8 pages
You Talk Like A White Girl
part Chapter 5|36 pages
Race, Nationality, and Gendered Practices in Relationships
part Chapter 6|34 pages
Relationship Maintenance
chapter 22|8 pages
College Students' Negotiations of Work–Life Balance
part Chapter 7|34 pages
Sexualities and Heteropatriarchy
part Chapter 8|36 pages
The Dark Side