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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Embracing a Full Spectrum of Interpersonal Communication Research | |
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| Understanding Personal Relationships Through an Interpretivist-Oriented Lens | |
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| Interpretivism Explained | |
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| A Family of Interpretivist Theories | |
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| Embracing Multiple Paradigms | |
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| Confusing Normative and Interpretive Approaches | |
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| What Interpretivist-Oriented Qualitative Research Is Not | |
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| What Interpretivist-Oriented Qualitative Research Is | |
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| A Future of Methodological Plurality in Interpersonal Communication Studies | |
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| Reworking Assumptions in Interpersonal Communication Studies | |
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| Commitments for Interpretivist-Oriented Interpersonal Communication Studies | |
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| Interpretive Possibilities for Interpersonal Communication Theory | |
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| Method and Analysis in Qualitative Relationships Research | |
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| Research Traditions | |
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| Narrative | |
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| Ethnography | |
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| Grounded Theory | |
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| Interpersonal Considerations for Maxwell's Interactive Design Model | |
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| Goals | |
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| Conceptual Framework | |
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| Research Questions | |
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| Methods | |
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| Validity | |
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| Bringing It All Together: Considering Quality | |
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| Working Paradoxes for Interpretivist-Oriented Interpersonal Communication Researchers | |
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| Tracy's Criteria for Quality Qualitative Research | |
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| Ethics | |
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| Examining Possibility | |
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| Interviews, Emotion Coding, and a Family Communication Study | |
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| Interviews and the Study of Relationships | |
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| Flexibility and Probing | |
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| Discovery and Elaboration | |
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| Best Practices for Collecting Interviews | |
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| Using Emotion Coding in Relationships Research | |
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| An Overview of Emotion Coding | |
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| Another Approach to Emotion Coding | |
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| Aunts and the Emotional Experience of Generativity: An Illustrative Research Study Using Interviews and Emotion Coding | |
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| Patricia Sotirin, Michigan Technical University, and Laura Ellingson, Santa Clara University | |
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| Reflecting on the Study: Excerpts From an Interview With Laura Ellingson and Patricia Sotirin | |
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| Focus Groups, Values Coding, and a Romantic Relationships Study | |
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| Focus Groups and the Study of Relationships | |
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| Validity Concerns in Focus Group Studies | |
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| Employing Focus Groups in Interpersonal Relationship Research | |
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| Best Practices for Conducting Focus Groups | |
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| Using Values Coding in Relationships Research | |
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| An Overview of Values Coding | |
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| Adults' Meanings of Friends-With-Benefits Relationships: A Romantic Relationships-Oriented Study Using Focus Groups and Values Coding | |
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| Reflecting on the Study: Excerpts From an Open-Ended Survey Completed by Laura Stafford | |
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| Open-Ended Surveys, Taxonomic Coding, and a Friendship Study | |
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| A Need for Survey Research | |
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| Allowing Space and Time Through Surveys | |
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| Encouraging Openness and Detail | |
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| Best Practices for Collecting Open-Ended Survey Data | |
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| Developing Taxonomies (or Typologies) Through Interpersonal Communication Research | |
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| Common Results of Taxonomic Analysis | |
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| Taxonomic Trees | |
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| Domain and Taxonomic Analysis Is a Way to Analyze Qualitative Data: Using Semantic Relationships as a Means for Studying Long-Distance Friendship | |
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| Reflecting on the Study: Excerpts From an Interview With Erin Sahlstein | |
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| Ethnography, Dramaturgical Coding, and a Sexuality Study | |
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| Ethnography, Participant Observation, and the Study of Relationships | |
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| Ethnography: The Basics | |
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| The Spirit of Ethnography | |
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| Dwight Conquergood and Exploring Dialogue | |
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| D. Soyini Madison and Positionality | |
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| H. L. Goodall and Writing the New Ethnography | |
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| Moving Interpersonal Communication Into Ethnographic Realms | |
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| Entering the Ethnographic Field | |
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| Writing Good Field Notes | |
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| Ethnography and Ethics | |
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| Ethnographic Inspirations | |
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| Exercising Caution | |
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| Dramaturgical Analysis | |
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| Prostitutes as "Sex Workers": A Dramaturgical Analysis of Identity at a Legal Brothel | |
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| Reflecting on the Study: Excerpts From an Interview With Jennifer C. Dunn | |
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| Discourse Analysis, Thematic Analysis, and a Study of Computer-Mediated Communication | |
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| Discourse Analysis and the Study of Relationships | |
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| Connecting Everyday Talk and Other Texts to Interpersonal Relationships | |
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| Discursive Practice | |
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| Discursive Practices in Everyday Talk | |
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| From Talk to Analysis | |
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| Analyzing Discourse | |
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| Selecting a Discourse | |
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| Tools for Analysis | |
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| The Critical Discourse Analysis Movement | |
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| Discourses-in-Practice | |
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| Thematic Analysis | |
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| The Online Discourse of Wounded Warrior Wives: A Study of Online Discourses Using Thematic Analysis 161 | |
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| Reflecting on the Study: Excerpts From an Interview With Denise Haunani Solomon | |
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| Narrative Inquiry, Crystallization, and a Study of Workplace Relationships | |
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| Narrative and the Study of Relationships | |
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| The Importance of Narrative and Stories in Relationships | |
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| Narrative Studies of Interpersonal Communication | |
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| Uses of Narratives in Interpersonal Communication | |
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| Using Method to Encourage Narrative | |
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| Narrative Interviews | |
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| Narrative Environments and Close Relationships | |
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| Additional Narrative Exemplars | |
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| Feminist Inspiration and Critical Potential: Narrative as Dialogic Liberation | |
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| Qualitative Crystallization: Representation Across Multiple Genres | |
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| Crystallization : Performing and Analyzing Women Engineers' Workplace Stories and Interpersonal Communication | |
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| Reflecting on the Study: Excerpts From an Interview With Patrice M. Buzzanell | |
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| Writing and Presenting Qualitative Interpersonal Communication Studies | |
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| Functions for "Good" Interpretive Theorizing From Research | |
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| Final Thoughts on Validity and Qualitative Research | |
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| Disseminating Qualitative Research Findings | |
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| Goals of the Book | |
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| Reviewing the Experience | |
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| Our Stories, Your Stories | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |