Making Connections: Readings in Relational Communication

by Kathleen M. Galvin

Book Overview

The fourth edition of Making Connections has been updated, expanded, and reorganized to reflect the changing field of relational communication. New essays address emerging topics--including anti-comforting messages, friendship in urban tribes, and discourse-dependent families--while a new section on the "dark side" of communication features articles on such topics as lying and irresolvable conflicts. Three new essays in the technology section reflect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195330641
• ISBN13: 9780195330649
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.2" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Good supplemental reader

This text offers an excellent collection of readings for an introductory college course in Interpersonal Communication. The content and questions work well for classroom discussion as well as journaling. I regularly use this text with Julia Wood's Interpersonal Communication: Everyday Encounters. The two texts pair well without being excessively redundant.