Extending on her 1996 seminal and award-winning book on relational dialecticstheory, Relating Dialogues and Dialectics (co-authored with Barbara Montgomery), author Leslie Baxter presents the 'next generation' of the theory: relational dialogics theory. This theory, and book, explores a greater nuanced understanding of the unity of opposites concept, presenting a more theoretically complex treatment of this and other key dialogic concepts. The text develops a rich palette of dialogic concepts useful in the study of communication and relationships and is centered around the following concepts: (1) relationships are profoundly situated process - voices are always embodied in a specific space and time; (2) relationships are constituted in communication - they are voiced through verbal and nonverbal communicative practices; (3) relationships come to mean through the interplay of multiple, differing discourses. INDICE: 1. Introduction: Evaluation of RDT as a Theory Reworkings: Alternative Framings of Interpersonal Communication Overview of the Chapters / 2. Mikhail Bakhtin, Dialogism, and RDT: Bakhtin's Life and Selected Key Works Bakhtin's Dialogism 1919-1924 Bakhtin's Dialogism Post-1924 Locating Bakhtin's Theory of Dialogism in Communication Research Locating RDT in Bakhtin's Dialogism /3. Discursive Struggles of Culture: The Utterance Chain Distal Already-Spokens of Culture The Discursive Struggle of Integration The Discursive Struggle ofExpression / 4. Discursive Struggles of Relational History, Otherness, and Normative Evaluation: The Proximal Already Spoken: The Discursive Struggle of Relational History The Proximal Not-Yet-Spoken: The Discursive Struggle of Otherness The Distal Not-Yet-Spoken The Discursive Struggle of Normative Evaluation/ 5. Centripetal-Centrifugal Struggle: Foregrounding Power in Centripetal-Centrifugal Struggle The Interplay of Discourses Communication Genres of Discursive Struggle / 6. Doing Contrapuntal Analysis: Selecting Texts in Contrapuntal Analysis Identifying Competing Discourses Identifying the Interplay of Competing Discourses A Sample Contrapuntal Analysis: A Dear Birth Mother Letter
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-2785-7
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 232
- Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés