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A Comprehensive Guide to Studying and Interpreting Communication Interaction This practical book provides students and experienced researchers with tools for studying communication behaviors through direct observation. The sourcebook provides sound coverage of both cutting-edge and well-established systems, measurements, and procedures, as well as detailed information on measurement selection, coding, reliability assessment, and analysis. In addition to offering theoretical discussions from leading researchers in the field, each chapter also focuses on how to apply systems and principles in conducting actual original research and uses examples and exemplars to help readers understand and apply the methods.
Relational Communication Control
Relational Communication Control
Historically, a noted lack of attention has been offered to interaction-based theories in comparison with theories focused on the individual, social structure, and cultural levels of analysis (Wiley, 1988). Likewise, in the development of the communication discipline, early programs of study drew largely from rhetorical and speech-oriented models, with models of interpersonal communication borrowed mainly from psychology. Given these beginnings, it is of little surprise that interaction-focused theories of communication were basically missing, with the more established approaches giving prominence to the study of individual acts, traits, and cognitions. But by the 1970s, an influx of different ways of thinking was emerging that potentially offered alternative perspectives for the study of communication.
With the advent of ...
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