Voicing relationships : a dialogic perspective /

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Author / Creator:Baxter, Leslie A.
Imprint:Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, c2011.
Description:viii, 211 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7936823
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ISBN:9781412927840 (cloth)
1412927846 (cloth)
9781412927857 (pbk.)
1412927854 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • Evaluation of RDT as a Theory
  • Reworkings: Alternative Framings of Interpersonal Communication
  • Overview of the Chapters
  • 2. Mikhail Bakhtin, Dialogism, and RDT
  • Bakhtin's Life and Selected Key Works
  • Bakhtin's Dialogism 1919-1924
  • Bakhtin's Dialogism Post-1924
  • Locating Bakhtin's Theory of Dialogism in Communication Research
  • Locating RDT in Bakhtin's Dialogism
  • 3. Discursive Struggles of Culture
  • The Utterance Chain
  • Distal Already-Spokens of Culture
  • The Discursive Struggle of Integration
  • The Discursive Struggle of Expression
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Discursive Struggles of Relational History, Otherness, and Normative Evaluation
  • The Proximal Already-Spoken: Discursive Struggles of Relational History
  • The Proximal Not-Yet-Spoken: Discursive Struggles of Otherness
  • The Distal Not-Yet-Spoken: Discursive Struggles of Normative Evaluation
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Centripetal-Centrifugal Struggle
  • Foregrounding Power in Centripetal-Centrifugal Struggle
  • The Interplay of Discourses
  • Communication Genres of Discursive Struggle
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Doing Contrapuntal Analysis
  • Selecting Texts in Contrapuntal Analysis
  • Identifying Competing Discourses
  • Identifying the Interplay of Competing Discourses
  • A Sample Contrapuntal Analysis: A "Dear Birth Mother" Letter
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author