Abstract
This book offers new and compelling insights into the ways in which communication is central to the study of personal relationships. Specifically, this volume focuses on front-line cutting-edge theories and methods in the study of communication and personal relationships. The opening chapter of this volume plunges straight into investigating the question "What is a personal relationship?", the central issue facing personal relationship research. The answers offered in this volume highlight the role of communication as a means of expressing a relationship as well as it being the essential substance of the relationship. The authors in this volume focus on different aspects of relationships and explain them in different ways.
| Original language | American English |
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| Title of host publication | Communication and Personal Relationships |
| State | Published - 2000 |
Keywords
- Qualitative
- Ethnography
- Autoethnography
- Relationships
- Relationship Communication
- Stories
- Storied Lives
- Evocative Narratives
Disciplines
- Arts and Humanities
- Communication
- Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies
- Social History
- Social Psychology and Interaction
- Sociology