Communicating Interpersonally: A Social Construction Approach

The sixth edition of Communicating Interpersonally brings eminent scholar John Stewart in collaboration with award-winning colleagues Karen Zediker and Saskia Witteborn to continue the text’s traditional emphasis on contact while adding two additional emphases: ethics and culture. Previous editions emphasized culture as part of an individual’s world of meaning and featured an underlying ethical standpoint. The new edition integrates culture and ethics into every aspect of interpersonal communication. Written in a conversational tone, Communicating Interpersonally incorporates and applies social construction approaches to interpersonal communication. The text addresses virtually all topics common to basic interpersonal courses and presents a conceptually unified approach that makes the material coherent and easy to grasp. It lays out a simple but powerful model of interpersonal communication that focuses on communication as collaborative meaning-making.