Bridges Not Walls : A Book about Interpersonal Communication
ISBN: 9780073384993 | 0073384992
Edition: 10thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 6/26/2008
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This anthology offers fifty-one scholarly and popular readings, that examine a broad range of topics about interpersonal relationships, drawing from such disciplines as communication, philosophy, social science, and psychology. The thought-provoking articles discuss the nature of interpersonal contact, connections between verbal and nonverbal cues, person perception, listening, identity management, gender and ethnic similarities and differences, communication about sex, defensiveness, power, bullying, transformational conflict management, cross... MORE
| Foundations of Interpersonal Communication | |
| Introduction to the Editor and to This Book | p. 3 |
| Communication and Interpersonal Communication | p. 14 |
| Communicating and Interpersonal Communicating | p. 15 |
| Personal Relationships and Health | p. 41 |
| Toward Study of the Consequentially (Not Consequences) of Communication | p. 52 |
| Fierce Conversations | p. 53 |
| Elements of the In... MORE | p. 62 |
| Communication Building Identities | p. 79 |
| Constructing Identities | p. 80 |
| Maintaining the Self in Communication | p. 91 |
| The Rudiments of Social Intelligence | p. 105 |
| Forming Online Identities | p. 115 |
| Deafness and the Riddle of Identity | p. 127 |
| Verbal and Nonverbal Contact | p. 134 |
| Verbal and Nonverbal Dimensions of Talk | p. 135 |
| Paying Attention to Words | p. 160 |
| Nonverbal Communication: Basic Perspectives | p. 166 |
| Functions of Nonverbal Behavior | p. 183 |
| Making Meaning Together | |
| Inhaling: Perceiving and Listening | p. 195 |
| Inhaling: Perception | p. 196 |
| It's Only Skin Deep: Stereotyping and Totalizing Others | p. 212 |
| Mindful Listening | p. 219 |
| Empathic and Dialogic Listening | p. 225 |
| Blackfeet Listening | p. 244 |
| Exhaling: Expressing and Disclosing | p. 252 |
| Being Open with and to Other People | p. 253 |
| State My Path: How to Speak Persuasively, Not Abrasively | p. 262 |
| I Want ... | p. 273 |
| What to Tell: Deciding When, How, and What to Self-Disclose | p. 283 |
| Relationships | |
| Communicating with Family and Friends | p. 293 |
| What's a Family, Anyway? | p. 294 |
| Separating Messages from Metamessages in Family Talk | p. 303 |
| Our Friends, Ourselves | p. 313 |
| Mother-Daughter E-Mail and IM Communication | p. 326 |
| Communicating with Intimate Partners | p. 335 |
| Gendering the Conversation | p. 336 |
| Gender and Ethnic Similarities and Differences in Relational Development | p. 342 |
| Gendered Standpoints on Personal Relationships | p. 358 |
| Romance in Cyberspace: Understanding Online Attraction | p. 365 |
| Bridges not Walls | |
| Coping with Communication Walls | p. 377 |
| Deception, Betrayal, and Aggression | p. 378 |
| Messages That Hurt | p. 390 |
| Defensive Communication | p. 401 |
| Power: The Structure of Conflict | p. 408 |
| Bullying: Correlates of Verbally Aggressive Communication in Adolescents | p. 423 |
| Conflict: Turning Walls into Bridges | p. 437 |
| Conflict and Interaction | p. 438 |
| Communication Spirals, Paradoxes, and Conundrums | p. 450 |
| Handling the Break-Up of Relationships | p. 466 |
| I Hear You, and I Have a Different Perspective | p. 474 |
| How to Resolve Issues Unmemorably | p. 479 |
| Bridging Cultural Differences | p. 489 |
| Building Relationships with Diverse Others | p. 490 |
| The Same and Different: Crossing Boundaries of Color, Culture, Sexual Preference, Disability, and Age | p. 502 |
| When Black Women Talk with White Women: Why Dialogues Are Difficult | p. 520 |
| Talking Can Stop Hate | p. 529 |
| "Which Is My Good Leg?": Cultural Communication of Persons with Disabilities | p. 534 |
| Promoting Dialogue | p. 548 |
| What Makes Dialogue Unique? | p. 549 |
| Dialogue's Basic Tension | p. 557 |
| Fostering Dialogue Across Divides | p. 567 |
| Turning Enemies into Friends | p. 577 |
| Photo Credits | p. 585 |
| Index | p. 587 |
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