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 current thinking on Internet-based interpersonal relationships; communication norms in an online support group; and how student use of technology challenges existent communication theories. This edition also adds a complete subject index and is accompanied by an Instructor's Manual.

Continuing the successful tradition and framework of previous editions, the fourth edition of Making Connections:

* Employs the "lenses" of gender, family, and culture to view and make sense of relational communication
* Offers a well-rounded discussion of the links between basic communication competencies and relationships
* Features a developmental approach in terms of initiating, sustaining, and ending relationships
* Reflects direct applications of relational issues within contexts of family, friendship, and technology
* Explores issues relating to computer-mediated communication and new technologies in everyday life

• 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.