Includes access code to Infotrac college edition. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Everyday communication in personal relationships: Play, playfulness, and the players, everyday interaction as improvised rehearsal of relationships; Chopping the carrots, creating intimacy moment by moment / J.T. Wood; Cat walk compensations, everyday communication in dating relationships / M. Dainton; "He Started It!", everyday communication in parenting / T.M. Muchlhoff; "Them's Fightin' word", naming in everyday talk between siblings / J.H. Nicholson; Cat puzzle recovered, composing relationships through family ritual / C. Business and A. Hoefs -- Everyday communication in social relationship: Hanging out and doing lunch, enacting friendship closeness / S. Metts; Shopping or and with friends, everyday communication at the shopping malt / D.O. Braithwaite and J.K. Kellas; <where r u?><here u?>, everyday communication with relational technologies / W.J. Carl; Relational life in the 21 st century, managing people, time, and distance / E.M. Sahlstein; He has two mommies, constructing lesbian families in social conversation / E.A. Suter; Sorority sisters speaking social support / M.K. Foley -- Everyday communication in workplace relationships: Cabbages and headache cures, work stories within the family / C. Cockburn-Wootten and T.E. Zorn; Communicating race and WeighCo / B.J. Allen; Helpful professional relating, constructing mentoring relationships through everyday talk / M.L. Hecht and J.R. Warren; Constructing working-class masculinity in the workplace / D.K. Mumby; Composing relationships at work, three minutes at a wholesale produce market / H.B. Mokros; Who am I right now?, negotiating familial and professional roles / L.D. Totten -- Glossary.
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