{"product_id":"voicing-relationships-9781412927857","title":"Voicing Relationships","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the field's most respected scholars advances a dialogic perspective on communication in personal and familial relationships, presenting the next iteration of relational dialectics theory (RDT).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is an excellent book and moves one of the major theories in the social sciences forward in very innovative ways. Indeed, this book extends beyond RDT by addressing limitations in the family, interpersonal, and personal relationships literature. I believe this book will prompt many discussions among theorists and researchers in those areas and has the potential to provide exciting new directions in the study of relationships. \u003c\/i\u003eGlen H. Stamp, \u003ci\u003eBall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e State University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeslie A. Baxter is offering up something here that is desperately needed and fills a big hole for those who adopt RDT as their theoretical framework. . . . I found the conceptual content of the book to be clear, compelling, and provoking. . . . The chapter on contrapuntal a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 1. Introduction    Evaluation of RDT as a Theory    Reworkings: Alternative Framings of Interpersonal Communication    Overview of the Chapters 2. Mikhail Bakhtin, Dialogism, and RDT    Bakhtin’s Life and Selected Key Works    Bakhtin’s Dialogism 1919-1924    Bakhtin’s Dialogism Post-1924    Locating Bakhtin’s Theory of Dialogism in Communication Research    Locating RDT in Bakhtin’s Dialogism 3. Discursive Struggles of Culture    The Utterance Chain    Distal Already-Spokens of Culture    The Discursive Struggle of Integration    The Discursive Struggle of Expression    Conclusion 4. Discursive Struggles of Relational History, Otherness, and Normative Evaluation    The Proximal Already-Spoken: Discursive Struggles of Relational History    The Proximal Not-Yet-Spoken: Discursive Struggles of Otherness    The Distal Not-Yet-Spoken: Discursive Struggles of Normative Evaluation    Conclusion 5. Centripetal-Centrifugal Struggle    Foregrounding Power in Centripetal-Centrifugal Struggle    The Interplay of Discourses    Communication Genres of Discursive Struggle    Conclusion 6. Doing Contrapuntal Analysis    Selecting Texts in Contrapuntal Analysis    Identifying Competing Discourses    Identifying the Interplay of Competing Discourses    A Sample Contrapuntal Analysis: A “Dear Birth Mother” Letter    Conclusion References Index About the Author\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769437651287,"sku":"9781412927857","price":72.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781412927857.jpg?v=1758721083","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/voicing-relationships-9781412927857","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}