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Provides scholars and students with guidance in using RDT to guide their own researchIntended AudienceVoicing Relationships is ideal for use in a wide range of courses, such as Interpersonal Communication; Family Studies; Couples, Marriage, and Family; and Counseling.
Doing Contrapuntal Analysis
Doing Contrapuntal Analysis
I have been conducting research informed by relational dialectics theory (RDT) for well over a decade now, and my colleagues and I have gradually developed a set of methodological practices that I refer to as contrapuntal analysis based on Bakhtin's (1984b) reference to his textual analysis of Dostoevsky's fictional works as “contrapuntal” (p. 221). Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics provides us with a concrete example of Dostoevsky's skill in creating multivocal prose, and Bakhtin's skill as a literary critic in identifying those “rudiments of counterpoint” (p. 221), but it falls short of presenting a codified set of methodological practices beyond the concept of double voicedness, which I have discussed in Chapter 5. Throughout the years, I have been interested in ...
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