Composing Relationships: Communication in Everyday Life (with InfoTrac®) (Wadsworth Series in Communication Studies): Communication in Everyday Life (with InfoTrac®) - Softcover

Wood, Julia; Duck, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534517196 ISBN 13: 9780534517199

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 1980

Synopsis

The routine interactions we have day-in, day-out are the ones that most decisively shape our identities and the quality and durability of our relationships. In COMPOSING RELATIONSHIPS: COMMUNICATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE (WITH INFOTRAC) you’ll see how relationships grow primarily out of so-called small talk between friends and romantic partners, rituals in families, and commonplace norms in organizations.

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About the Authors

Julia Wood is a Professor of Communication Studies and the Lineberger Professor of Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has authored 17 books, edited seven others, and published more than 70 articles and book chapters. Her research and teaching focus on gender and communication, interpersonal relationships, and intimate partner violence.

Steve Duck (Ph.D., University of Sheffield, UK; M.A. & B.A., Pembroke College, Oxford, UK) conducts work on communication in relationship development and disintegration and focuses particularly on everyday communication in the context of personal relationships, especially variation in experience and communication during the day. He won the University of Iowa's first Graduate College Outstanding Mentor Award in 2001. In 2004 he won the Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award from NCA, which "recognizes NCA members who have demonstrated dedication to excellence, commitment to the profession, concern for others, vision of what could be, acceptance of diversity, and forthrightness." Duck has published many research papers and chapters and has written or edited 46 books on relationships and other matters. He was the founder of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (SAGE) and its editor for its first 15 years. His 1994 book, Meaningful Relationships: Talking, Sense and Relating, won the G R Miller Book Award from the Interpersonal Division of the National Communication Association. His introductory book Human Relationships has run to four editions and his most recent works are Dragon & Duck, Understanding Relationship Research: A Text with Readings (2005, SAGE Ltd); Kirkpatrick, Duck, & Foley, Relating Difficulty: Processes of Constructing and Managing Difficult Interaction (2006, Erlbaum); and Wood & Duck, Composing Relationships: Communication in Everyday Life (2006, Wadsworth).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534517196
• ISBN 13: 9780534517199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224