Inside Relationships A Creative Casebook in Relational Communication

Name: Inside Relationships A Creative Casebook in Relational Communication
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ISBN: 9781611322712

ISBN-10: 1611322715

ISBN-13: 9781611322712

Edition: 2013

Authors: Sandra L. Faulkner

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This book of original case studies allows students in interpersonal and relational communication classes to engage with creative stories about lives and relationships, helping them understand how communication processes work. Written in literary format—essays, short stories, scripts, photographs, poetry—these 27 brief case studies by communication researchers allow students to see the workings of relationship management, friendship, disclosure, gender, family interaction, and other key topics in relational communication. Faulkner’s introduction to each section provides the basic pedagogical content to give context and meaning to the cases that follow. Questions for discussion, activities,…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface: How To Use This Book


Introduction: An Argument for Creative Approaches to Relationships



What Is a Relationship?



Body of Work




The Person in the Moon




Life After Death: Continuing Close Relationships in New and Different Ways




Relationship Metaphors and Forms



Migration Patterns




Doing Valentine's Day Differently




Twenty-One-Year-Old Virgin




Uncertainty, Information Management, and Disclosure



BIRTHing ARTiculations




Storying Mindfulness, (Re)imagining Burn




"Are You Calling Me a Slut?" Sharing Personal Information in Close Relationships




Friendship



Our Choice without a Choice: Similarities in Friendships and Romantic Relationships




Goodbye Friend




Friendships and Social Support in Coping with Illness Diagnosis: The Story of Sherry and the Martha's Vineyard Communication Association




Family Communication



Is God like My Father? Exploring Abusive Family Relationships through Sibling Narratives




Diary of Anorexia




That Baby Will Cost You: An Intended Ambivalent Pregnancy




The Social Self



(Not Remotely) Hot Online Action!




Thank You for Not Asking




Transforming Vignettes of NonBeing into Life Affirming (M)Otherhood




Gender and Culture



Seven Tattoos: A Personal History




The Conversation about Gender and Culture that I Would Have with You




Sticks and Stones: Dealing with Discrimination




Relationship Maintenance



Comfort




Tell Me About Love




The Onion




The Dark-Side: Conflict, Dissolution and Other Difficult Conversations



Falling Spell/Spelling Fail: Examining a History of Physical and Emotional Abuse




Frogging It: A Poetic Analysis of Relationship Dissolution




Institutionalized



Index


About the Authors