What is interpersonal communication? Is it limited to interaction between two people? Does it only involve personal relationships? Does it go beyond face-to-face interactions? Can it take place in a variety of contexts, such as the workplace, a health practitioner's office, or online? This fully revised Third Edition of the Handbook of Interpersonal Communication addresses these and other fundamental yet pivotal questions, offering graduate students and faculty interested in the study of interpersonal communication an important, state-of-the-art reference work. Providing a complete course of study, the Handbook includes the following units: Basic Issues and Approaches; Perspectives on Inquiry; Fundamental Units; Processes and Functions; and Interpersonal Contexts.
Chapter authors explore key issues in the field, such as verbal and nonverbal behavior, the importance of self-reporting data, methods for studying context, and the role that social cognition plays in interpersonal transactions. The volume covers a wide range of established and emerging topics including:
Personality and Interpersonal Communication
Discourse Analysis in Interpersonal Communication
Goals and Knowledge Structures in Social Interaction
Computer Mediated Communications and Relationships.
With nine new and nine fully revised chapters the Handbook of Interpersonal Communication, Third Edition delivers a clear, comprehensive, and thought-provoking overview of the field of interpersonal communication. Editors Mark Knapp and John Daly have amassed a critical contribution to the field and a fundamental volume for students and scholars of interpersonalcommunication.

• ISBN: 0761921605
• ISBN-13: 9780761921608
• Editors : Mark Knapp and John A. Daly
• Language : English
• Format:  Hardcover
• Publication Date: 10/1/2002
• Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications
• Price ($AUD): $255.95


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