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| Preface | |
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| Foundations of Interpersonal Communication | |
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| Introduction to the Editor and to This Book | |
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| Communication and Interpersonal Communication | |
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| Communicating and Interpersonal Communicating | |
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| Personal Relationships and Health | |
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| Fierce Conversations | |
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| Social Media: Where Interpersonal Communication Meets Mass Communication | |
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| Communication Building Identities | |
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| Constructing Identies | |
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| Self and Identity: Transacting a Self in interactions with others | |
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| Identity and Dificult Conversations | |
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| Verbal and Nonverbal Contact | |
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| Verbal and Nonverbal Dimensions of Talk | |
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| Talk and Interpersonal Relationships | |
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| Two of the Most Important Words | |
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| Say What? Eight Words and Phrases to Avoid in Lgbt Communication | |
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| What are the Functions of Nonverbal Communication? | |
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| Making Meaning Together | |
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| Inhaling: Perceiving and Listening | |
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| Inhaling: Perception | |
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| It's Only Skin Deep: Stereotyping and Totalizing Others | |
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| Mindful Listening | |
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| Empathic and Dialogic Listening | |
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| Exhaling: Expressing and Disclosing | |
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| Being Open with and to Other People | |
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| Expression: Speak for Yourself with Clarity and Power | |
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| Relationships | |
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| Communicating with Family and Friends | |
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| What's a Family, Anyway? | |
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| Separating Messages from Metamessages in Family Talk | |
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| Our Friends, Ourselves | |
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| Relationships and Power | |
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| Communicating with Intimate Partners | |
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| Communicating Closeness: Intimacy, Affection, and Social Support | |
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| Gender and Ethnic Similarities and Differences in Relational Development | |
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| What Do We Know about Gay and Lesbian Couples? | |
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| Word of Mouth Goes World of Mouth | |
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| Bridges Not Walls | |
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| Coping with Communication Walls | |
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| Deception, Betrayal, and Aggression | |
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| Messages That Hurt | |
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| Defensive Communication | |
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| Power: The Structure of Conflict | |
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| Verbal Aggression Interventions: What Should Be Done? | |
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| Conflict: Turning Walls into Bridges | |
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| Conflict and Interaction | |
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| Communication Spirals, Paradoxes, and Conundrums | |
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| Handling the Break-Up of Relationships | |
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| I Hear You, and I Have a Different Perspective | |
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| How to Resolve Issues Unmemorably | |
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| Bridging Cultural Differences | |
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| The Individual and the Collective in Society | |
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| Building Relationships with Diverse Others | |
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| From Racism to Gracism | |
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| "Which Is My Good Leg?" Cultural Communication of Persons with Disabilities | |
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| Promoting Dialogue | |
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| Dialogue's Basic Tension | |
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| Fostering Dialogue across Divides | |
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| Turning Enemies into Friends | |
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| Elements of the Interhuman | |
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| Photocredits | |
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| Index | |