Interpretive Approaches to Interpersonal Communication

Synopsis of Interpretive Approaches to Interpersonal Communication

This groundbreaking book presents conceptual, theoretical, and applied chapters demonstrating the strengths of interpretive approaches in the study of interpersonal communication. It extends our understanding of interpersonal communication through the incorporation of interpretive and critical theory paradigms. The authors provide a collection of essays that raises theoretical and methodological issues in the study of interpersonal communication relevant to all researchers in this area of study, including perspectives such as phenomenology, feminism, hermeneutics, symbolic interactionism, semiotics, and postmodern ethnography.