Relating: Dialogues and Dialectics

by Leslie A. Baxter and Barbara M. Montgomery

Book Overview

This book draws on the dialogism of social theorist Mikhail Bakhtin to develop a new approach which the authors term "relational dialectics" to the study of interpersonal communication. Emphasizing a social self instead of a sovereign self, multivocal oppositions instead of binary contradictions, and indeterminate change instead of transcendent synthesis, chapters examine and critique prevailing approaches to interpersonal communication. Building...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572301015
• ISBN13: 9781572301016
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.4"