Carolyn Ellis is the leading writer in the move toward personal, autobiographical writing as a
strategy for academic research. In addition to her landmark books Final Negotiations and …

Relational communication has traditionally been conceptualized as operating along two or
three dimensions. An elaborated view of relational message themes is presented here …

Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former
President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both …

This paper suggests that organizations, cultures, and cultural" rules" can be synthesized as
communication phenomena, using a communication-rules perspective. The synthesis is …

While surprisingly little has been written about context at a meaningful level, context is
central to most theoretical approaches to information seeking. In this essay I explore in more …

The present study examined the role played by relational expectations in determining
marital satisfaction and in discriminating between married couple types. The discrepancy …

This article proposes that not only disclosure but also secrecy should have a beneficial effect
on satisfaction in close relationships. Disclosure and secrecy are determined by …

The term''expressive communication''refers to messages that signify emotive and subjective
experiences such as feelings, private sentiments, and personal qualities. Since the 1960s …

Building on the theoretical and research traditions of Jules Henry, Salvador Minuchin, Jay
Haley, and Gregory Bateson, this study presents an analysis of metacommunicational …

The shape and the form of every human mind is given in how that mind is given to
comprehend the world and to express itself in it. To be human means being a member of …