Voicing Relationships

Extending on her 1996 seminal and award-winning book on relational dialectics theory, "Relating: Dialogues and Dialectics" (co-authored with Barbara Montgomery), author Leslie Baxter presents the 'next generation' of the theory: relational dialogics theory. This theory, and book, explores a greater nuanced understanding of the unity of opposites concept, presenting a more theoretically complex treatment of this and other key dialogic concepts. The text develops a rich palette of dialogic concepts useful in the study of communication and relationships and is centered around the following concepts: relationships are profoundly situated process - voices are always embodied in a specific space and time; relationships are constituted in communication - they are voiced through verbal and nonverbal communicative practices; and, relationships come to mean through the interplay of multiple, differing discourses.

ISBN 1412927846   Pages 224 ISBN13 9781412927840 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 408 Publisher SAGE Publications Inc   Published in Thousand Oaks Imprint SAGE Publications Inc   Height (mm) 229 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 152 Publication date 19 Mar 2010   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 302.2   Academic level Further/Higher education DEWEY edition DC22

Ch. 1		Introduction
Ch. 2		Mikhail Bakhtin, Dialogism, and RDT
Ch. 3		Discursive Struggles of Culture
Ch. 4		Discursive Struggles of Relational History, Otherness, and Normative Evaluation
Ch. 5		Centripetal-Centrifugal Struggle
Ch. 6		Doing Contrapuntal Analysis
		References
		Index

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