Table of Contents

Preface
The Ubiquity of Difference: They Saw a Game
Transition and Difference in Relationships: With New Eyes
Structural Analysis of Relationship Transitions: Similar Differences
From Description to Explanation in Relationship Transition: Repititive without Repeating
Relationship Security: Fitting Relations
Relationship Disintegration: Taking Notice
Relationship Alienation: Still Life
Relationship Resynthesis: Homo Relatio
Prospect: Via
Appendixes
References
Index

Promotional Information

Conville solves the problem of how to think about the process of communication in personal relationships by moving beyond stage models of relational development and proposing a new model that depicts a four-phase structure of transition between relational stages.

About the Author

RICHARD L. CONVILLE is Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has taught in the field of interpersonal communication since 1972, and his research has appeared in journals such as Human Communication Research, the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Communication Monographs. Professor Conville has served on the Board of Directors of the International Communication Association and on the editorial boards of the Southern Communication Journal and Communication Theory.