Interpretive themes in relational communication

This study explored the themes used by married couples, dating couples, relatives, live‐in friends, and non‐live‐in friends to interpret their current relational episodes. One hundred eighteen people participated in fifty‐five report tasks. Among the findings were that dating couples used themes of commitment, fragility, and manipulation, while marital couples, relatives, and live‐in friends used themes of involvement, work, and respect.

[1]  N. Denzin.  The Logic of Naturalistic Inquiry , 1971 .

[2]  J. Henry.  Pathways to madness , 1971 .

[3]  A. Strauss,et al.  Field Research: Strategies for a Natural Sociology. , 1974 .

[4]  R. Hess,et al.  Family Worlds: A Psychosocial Approach to Family Life , 1974 .

[5]  C. Berger,et al.  SOME EXPLORATIONS IN INITIAL INTERACTION AND BEYOND: TOWARD A DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION , 1975 .

[6]  Mark S. Granovetter.  Network Sampling: Some First Steps , 1976, American Journal of Sociology.

[7]  M. Deutsch,et al.  Perceived dimensions of interpersonal relations. , 1976 .

[8]  M. Fitzpatrick.  A Typological Approach to Communication in Relationships , 1977 .

[9]  Gerry Philipsen.  Linearity of research design in ethnographic studies of speaking , 1977 .

[10]  Arthur P. Bochner,et al.  The Conceptual Domain of Interpersonal Communication Behavior: A Factor-Analytic Study , 1977 .

[11]  Malcolm R. Parks.  Relational Communication: Theory and Research , 1977 .

[12]  D. Zimmerman,et al.  The Diary , 1977 .

[13]  M. Knapp,et al.  Social intercourse: From greeting to goodbye , 1978 .

[14]  G. William Walster,et al.  A new look at love , 1978 .

[15]  G. Levinger,et al.  Implicit Theories of Relationship: An Intergenerational Study. , 1979 .

[16]  D. Ellis.  Relational control in two group systems , 1979 .

[17]  M. Knapp,et al.  Perceptions of communication behavior associated with relationship terms , 1980 .

[18]  William W. Wilmot.  Metacommunication: A Re-Examination and Extension , 1980 .

[19]  S. Duck.  Personal relationships research in the 1980s: Towards an understanding of complex human sociality , 1980 .

[20]  Tamar Katriel,et al.  “What we need is communication”: “Communication” as a cultural category in some American speech , 1981 .

[21]  M. Knapp,et al.  Couples' personal idioms: exploring intimate talk. , 1981, The Journal of communication.

[22]  L. Baxter,et al.  Communication characteristics of relationships with differential growth rates , 1983 .

[23]  L. Baxter,et al.  Reciprocal framing of relationship definitions and episodic interaction , 1983 .