基本説明
With 8 new and 13 fully revised chapters, the Handbook includes the following units: Basic Issues and Approaches; Perspectives on Inquiry; Fundamental Units; Processes and Functions; and Contexts. Chapter authors explore key issues in the field, such as verbal and nonverbal behavior, the importance of self-reporting data, methods for studying context, and the role that social cognition plays in interpersonal transactions.
Full Description
The revised Fourth Edition of The SAGE Handbook of Interpersonal Communication delivers a clear, comprehensive, and exciting overview of the field of interpersonal communication. It offers graduate students and faculty an important, state-of-the-art reference work in which well-known experts summarize theory and current research. The editors also explore key issues in the field, including personal relationships, computer-mediated communication, language, personality, skills, nonverbal communication, and communication across a person's life span. This updated handbook covers a wide range of established and emerging topics, including:
Biological and Physiological Processes
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for Studying Interpersonal Communication
Interpersonal Communication in Work, Family, Intercultural, and Health Contexts
Supportive and Divisive Transactions
Social Networks
Editors Mark L. Knapp and John A. Daly have significantly contributed to the field of interpersonal communication with this important reference work—a must-have for students and scholars.
Contents
PART I: Basic Issues and Approaches
1. Background and Current Trends in the Study of Interpersonal Communication - Mark L. Knapp & John A. Daly
PART II: Perspectives on Inquiry
2. Quantitative Social Science Methods of Inquiry - Tim Levine
3. Qualitative Methods in Interpersonal Communication - Karen Tracy & Christine Fitch
4. Biological and Physiological Perspectives on Interpersonal Communication - Kory Floyd & Tammy Afifi
PART III: Fundamental Units
5. Personality and Interpersonal Communication - John A. Daly
6. Knowledge Structures and Social Interaction - Charles R. Berger & Nicholas A. Palomares
7. Language and Interpersonal Communication - Matthew S. McGlone & Howard Giles
8. Nonverbal Signals - Judee K. Burgoon, Laura K. Guerrero, & Valerie Manusov
PART IV: Processes and Functions
9. Emotion Experience and Expression: Current Trends and Future Directions in Interpersonal Relationship Research - Sandra Metts & Sally Planalp
10. Supportive Communication - E.L. MacGeorge, B. Feng, and B. R. Burleson
11. Social Networks and the Life of Relationships - Malcolm R. Parks
12. Interpersonal Influence - James P. Dillard & Leanne Knobloch
13. Interpersonal Conflict: A Review - Michael E. Roloff & Benjamin Chiles
14. Theories of Computer Mediated Communication and Interpersonal Relations - Joseph B. Walther
15. Interpersonal Skills - Brian H. Spitzberg & William R. Cupach
PART V: Contexts
16. Interpersonal Communication in the Workplace - Karen K. Myers, David R. Seibold, & Hee Sun Park
17. Intercultural Perspectives on Interpersonal Communication - John Oetzel & Stella Ting-Toomey
18. Interpersonal Processes in Romantic Relationships - Anita L. Vangelisti
19. Interpersonal Communication and Health Care - Teresa L. Thompson, Jeffrey D. Robinson, & Dale E. Brashers
20. Interpersonal Communication in Family Relationships - John P. Caughlin, Ascan F. Koener, Paul Schrodt, & Mary Anne Fitzpatrick
21. Interpersonal Communication Across the Lifespan - Jon F. Nussbaum, Loretta L. Pechionni, & Kevin B. Wright
Author Index
Subject Index
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