In this practical and innovative study, Richard Conville
proposes a way to think about the process of communication in
personal relationships. He moves beyond rigid stage models of
relational development and advocates a new, helical model with a
four-phase structure of transition between relational phases. The
model is based on Difference--developed as a theoretical
concept--and on structural analysis of relational partners'
narratives of their transition experiences. This perspective offers
both a conceptual and a methodological alternative to current work
in relationship development. Though its focus is only one part of
the wide-ranging communication field, its principles can easily be
applied to other communication contexts.
Conville opens with a description of Difference, a necessary
component of current theory in interpersonal relationships, and its
role in the structure of relationships. He examines narratives by
partners in three personal relationships to locate dialectical
differences of time, intimacy, and affect. Later chapters examine
the four transition phases of relationships: security,
disintegration, alienation, and resynthesis. These four phases are
seen as meta-dialectics that mark the social domain in which
personal relationships are played out. "Relational TransitionS"
will prove to be of particular interest to scholars and students of
communication, psychology, sociology, family studies, and
anthropology.
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