Abstract

Preface 1. Introduction Evaluation of RDT as a Theory Reworkings: Alternative Framings of Interpersonal Communication Overview of the Chapters 2. Mikhail Bakhtin, Dialogism, and RDT Bakhtin's Life and Selected Key Works Bakhtin's Dialogism 1919-1924 Bakhtin's Dialogism Post-1924 Locating Bakhtin's Theory of Dialogism in Communication Research Locating RDT in Bakhtin's Dialogism 3. Discursive Struggles of Culture The Utterance Chain Distal Already-Spokens of Culture The Discursive Struggle of Integration The Discursive Struggle of Expression Conclusion 4. Discursive Struggles of Relational History, Otherness, and Normative Evaluation The Proximal Already-Spoken: Discursive Struggles of Relational History The Proximal Not-Yet-Spoken: Discursive Struggles of Otherness The Distal Not-Yet-Spoken: Discursive Struggles of Normative Evaluation Conclusion 5. Centripetal-Centrifugal Struggle Foregrounding Power in Centripetal-Centrifugal Struggle The Interplay of Discourses Communication Genres of Discursive Struggle Conclusion 6. Doing Contrapuntal Analysis Selecting Texts in Contrapuntal Analysis Identifying Competing Discourses Identifying the Interplay of Competing Discourses A Sample Contrapuntal Analysis: A Dear Birth Mother Letter Conclusion References Index About the Author

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