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Bridges not walls : a book about interpersonal communication / [edited by] John Stewart.

Contributor(s): Stewart, John Robert, 1941-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2002Edition: 8th ed.Description: xix, 697 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 007240082X; 9780072400823.Subject(s): Interpersonal communication | Linguistics | Communication studies | Social, group or collective psychology | Media, entertainment, information & communication industriesDDC classification: 302.2 BRI

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Bridges not Walls examines interpersonal communication through a broad range of scholarly and popular articles drawn from various disciplines, including communication, philosophy, social science, and psychology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Part I Entering the Interpersonal Arena
  • Chapter 1 Introduction to the Editor and Rationale to this Book
  • Chapter 2 Defining Communication and Interpersonal Communication
  • "Communicating and Interpersonal Communicating"
  • "On Communication"
  • "Interbeing"
  • "The Communication Panacea"
  • Chapter 3 Defining Ourselves as Communicators
  • "Constructing Selves"
  • "The Rudiments of Social Intelligence"
  • "Meaning and Values"
  • "Maintaining the Self in Communicating"
  • "When Miss America Was Always White"
  • Chapter 4 Making Contact Verbally and Nonverbally
  • "Verbal and Nonverbal Dimensions of Talk"
  • "Paying Attention to Words Virginia
  • "Communication and Nonverbal Behavior"
  • "Functions of Nonverbal Behavior"
  • Part II Making Meaning Together
  • Chapter 5 Understanding and Listening: Communication as Inhaling
  • "Interpretive Competence: How We Perceive Individuals, Relationships, and Social Events"
  • "It's Only Skin Deep: Stereotyping and Totalizing Others"
  • "Misconceptions about Listening"
  • "Listening"
  • "Empathic and Dialogic Listening"
  • Chapter 6 Engaging Others: Communication as Exhaling
  • "Being Open With and To Other People"
  • "Expressing"
  • What It Means to Be Assertive"
  • "Immediacy"
  • "What to Tell"
  • Part III Changing Relationships
  • Chapter 7 Communicating with Family and Friends
  • "What's a Family, Anyway?"
  • "Intimacy and Closeness Within Families"
  • "Eating Mindfully"
  • "The Fifth Tuesday: We Talk About Family"
  • "Our Friends, Ourselves"
  • "In Search of An Ethic of Interpersonal Relationships"
  • Chapter 8 Communicating with Intimate Partners
  • "Intimate Relationships"
  • "Moving Beyond Sex and Gender Stereotypes"
  • "Gendered Standpoints on Personal Relationships"
  • "Making Marriage Work"
  • "How to Resolve Issues Unmemorably"
  • Part IV Bridges Not Walls
  • Chapter 9 Recognizing Communication Walls
  • "Messages that Hurt"
  • "Deception, Betrayal, and Aggression"
  • "Patterns of Interactional Confirmation and Disconfirmation"
  • "Defensive Communication"
  • Chapter 10 Managing Conflict by Turning Walls into Bridges
  • Marshall Scott Poole