Interpersonal CommunicationThis text's five-step learning model helps students improve interpersonal competence in well-defined waysuthrough conceptual understanding, modeling of realistic examples, practicing of skill-building exercises, self-assessment, and translating learning into behavior. Intended for the instructors who take a theory/research approach." |
Contents
Introduction Communication and Competence | 5 |
BONZO GOES TO COLLEGE ATTEMPTS TO TEACH LANGUAGE TO PRIMATES | 6 |
INSULTING THE MEAT AN INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION RITUAL | 16 |
Interpersonal Communication Building Relationships | 23 |
The Characteristics of Relationships | 29 |
A Basic Interpersonal Dilemma | 36 |
Nonverbal Competence | 49 |
THE GUARDED SELF HOW TO AVOID BEING SEEN IN PUBLIC | 62 |
CAVEAT EMPTOR TECHNIQUES OF CONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS | 242 |
Process to Performance | 248 |
Family Interaction Patterns | 253 |
A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE HOW THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT | 264 |
Families in History | 270 |
Communicative Competence and the Family | 282 |
Observation Guide | 288 |
Intimate Relationships Creating Dyadic Identities | 291 |
A NONLINEAR HISTORY OF HANDSHAKING | 68 |
Communicating Feelings | 75 |
Verbal Competence | 83 |
SPEAKING WITH NAMES AN APACHE LANGUAGE RITUAL | 96 |
Initiating Conversation | 104 |
Relational Competence | 113 |
SCHISMOGENESIS PATTERNS OF ROLE DIFFERENTIATION IN A NEW GUINEA VILLAGE | 130 |
Interpretive Competence How We Perceive Individuals | 139 |
PERCEPTION GOES TO THE MOVIES HOW CINEMATOGRAPHERS INFLUENCE WHAT WE SEE | 148 |
Becoming a Competent Listener | 165 |
Role Competence Adapting to Social Expectations | 177 |
WHEN IS A MAN A REAL MAN? | 188 |
Process to Performance | 194 |
THE SATURATED SELF WILL YOU STILL BE YOU TOMORROW? | 202 |
Individual Differences and Interpersonal Communication | 209 |
Goal Competence Interpersonal Influence | 223 |
CUPIDS SHUTTLECOCK INDIVIDUALISM AND ROMANTIC LOVE | 294 |
Opening the Door | 300 |
PLAYING THE DATING GAME A SOCIAL HISTORY OF COURTSHIP | 308 |
Communicative Competence and Intimate Relationships | 319 |
Process to Performance | 325 |
Professional Relationships Communicating | 329 |
SORRY IM NOT APOLOGIZING CONVERSATIONAL RITUALS | 340 |
WHEN EAST MEETS WEST HIDDEN DIFFERENCES | 346 |
Cultural and Historical Influences | 363 |
IF YOU CANT STAND THE SHAME DONT PLAY THE GAME | 369 |
Communicative Competence and Culture | 375 |
Communicative Competence and Historical Change | 387 |
References | 395 |
Indexes | 417 |
Illustration Credits | 429 |