Engaging Theories in Family Communication - Braithwaite, Dawn O / Baxter, Leslie A
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To date, scholars from disciplines other than communication have dominated the study of family communication, and theory has never been positioned as the centerpiece of a book dealing with this subject matter. Engaging Theories in Family Communication covers uncharted territory in its field, as it is the first book on the market to deal exclusively with family communication theory. Its editors (Dawn O. Braithwaite and Leslie A. Baxter) and contributors (including Valerie Manusov, Tamara Golish, Fran Dickson, Julia Wood, Kory Floyd, Sandra Petronio, Beth LePoire, Kathleen Galvin, Mary Ann…mehr

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To date, scholars from disciplines other than communication have dominated the study of family communication, and theory has never been positioned as the centerpiece of a book dealing with this subject matter. Engaging Theories in Family Communication covers uncharted territory in its field, as it is the first book on the market to deal exclusively with family communication theory. Its editors (Dawn O. Braithwaite and Leslie A. Baxter) and contributors (including Valerie Manusov, Tamara Golish, Fran Dickson, Julia Wood, Kory Floyd, Sandra Petronio, Beth LePoire, Kathleen Galvin, Mary Ann Fitzpatrick, and Anita Vangelisti) compose a veritable Who's Who in the family communication field. As a core text or a companion text to other topically-based family communication texts, Engaging Theories in Family Communication is written at the level that advanced undergraduate and graduate students can understand, and it will be a valuable resource for scholars, and have applicability and interest coming from family studies, sociology, and psychology as well. Key Features: There is no other book on the market that focuses specifically on family communication theories. Twenty theories, both classical and cutting-edge, each covered in a separate chapter in the volume, each dealing with: (1) purpose of the theory, (2) major features as relevant to the understanding of family communication, (3) how the chapter fits into the section in which the editors have placed it (theories in family communication, theories of communication, theories of family communication), (4) how this theory has been used to understand communication in the family and how this theory could be used to understand communication in the family, (5) strengths and limitations of the theory to shed light on family communication, and (6) research directions for future researchers using this theory The editors (Braithwaite and Baxter) and contributors represent a virtual "Who's Who" of leading scholars in the field of family communication
Autorenporträt
Dawn O. Braithwaite (Ph.D., University of Minnesota [interpersonal/small group/health communication]; M.A. amp; B.A., California State University, Long Beach [interpersonal/small group communication; communication theory and research) is nationally recognized as one of the leading scholars in family communication and in communication and disability. She is the immediate past president of the Western States Communication Association (2001-02) and is the recipient of numerous teaching and service awards (among them: 2002 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Achievement in the Social Sciences; 2002 NCA Presidential Citation for Service; 2001 Wayne Brockriede Scholar Award; 2000 ACA Gerald Phillips Mentoring Award), She has, as well, won an NCA Top Paper Award every year for the past 4 years. She is co-author of the college textbook Case Studies in Interpersonal Communication (Wadsworth, copy;2000) and sits or has sat on the following editorial journal boards: Journal of Social and Personal Relationships; Journal of Family Communication; Western Journal of Communication; Communication Reports; Journal of Applied Communication Research; Southern Communication Journal; Communication Studies; Communication Monographs. She, along with co-editor Leslie Baxter, is one of the best connected and well-regarded scholars within the discipline.
Leslie A. Baxter (Ph.D. amp; M.S., University of Oregon [doctorate: interpersonal communication and research methodology; masters: mass communication]; B.S., Lewis and Clark College) is considered one of the top research scholars in communication studies, well known for both her qualitative and quantitative work. She is co-editor of SAGEs forthcoming text Dialogue: Theorizing Difference in Communication Studies , co-author of Wadsworths forthcoming The Basics of Communication Research (with Earl Babbie; which I commissioned her for in 1995), and editor of Erlbaums Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships. Her book Relating: Dialogues and Dialectics won the 1997 G.R. Miller Book Award from NCA. In 2002, she was named the first recipient of the Legacy Theory Award in honor of her relational dialectics theory being 'a theory that has left a legacy for the field.' She was the president of the Western States Communication Association from 1997-98 and sits or has sat on the following editorial journals boards: Communication Reports; Communication Theory; Journal of Communication; Review of Communication; Journal of Family Communication; Journal of Social and Personal Relationships; Western Journal of Communication; Southern Journal of Communication; Communication Monographs; Human Communication Research; Personal Relationships; Journal of Applied Communication Research; Communication Education.