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Summary
Summary
Providing a thorough review and synthesis of work on communication skills and skill enhancement, this Handbook serves as a comprehensive and contemporary survey of theory and research on social interaction skills. Editors John O. Greene and Brant R. Burleson have brought together preeminent researchers and writers to contribute to this volume, establishing a foundation on which future study and research will build.
The handbook chapters are organized into five major units: general theoretical and methodological issues (models of skill acquisition, methods of skill assessment); fundamental interaction skills (both transfunctional and transcontextual); function-focused skills (informing, persuading, supporting); skills used in management of diverse personal relationships (friendships, romances, marriages); and skills used in varied venues of public and professional life (managing leading, teaching).
Distinctive features of this handbook include:
* broad, comprehensive treatment of work on social interaction skills and skill acquisition;
* up-to-date reviews of research in each area; and
* emphasis on empirically supported strategies for developing and enhancing specific skills.
Researchers in communication studies, psychology, family studies, business management, and related areas will find this volume a comprehensive, authoritative source on communications skills and their enhancement, and it will be essential reading for scholars and students across the spectrum of disciplines studying social interaction.
Table of Contents
ForewordJ.M. Wiemann |
PrefaceJ.O. Greene and B.R. Burleson |
Part I General Theoretical and Methodological Issues |
Explicating Communicative Competence as a Theoretical TermS.R. Wilson and C.M. Sabee |
Models of Adult Communication Skill Acquisition: Practice and the Course of Performance ImprovementJ.O. Greene |
Methods of Interpersonal Skill AssessmentB.H. Spitzberg |
Methods of Social Skills Training and DevelopmentC. Segrin and M. Givertz |
Part II Fundamental Interaction Skills |
Nonverbal Communication SkillsJ.K. Burgoon and A.E. Bacue |
Applying the Skills Concept to Discourse and Conversation: The Remediation of Performance Defects in Talk-in-InteractionR.E. Sanders |
Message Production Skill in Social InteractionC.R. Berger |
Message Reception Skills in Social CommunicationR.S. Wyer, Jr and R. Adaval |
Impression Management: Goals, Strategies, and SkillsS. Metts and E. Grohskopf |
Part III Function-Focused Communication Skills |
Informing and Explaining Skills: Theory and Research on Informative CommunicationK.E. Rowan |
Arguing SkillD. Hample |
Persuasion as a Social SkillJ.P. Dillard and L.J. Marshall |
Managing Interpersonal Conflict: A Model of Events Related to Strategic ChoicesD.J. Canary |
Emotional Support SkillsB.R. Burleson |
How to "Do Things" With Narrative: A Communication Perspective on Narrative SkillJ. Mandelbaum |
Part IV Skills in Close Personal Relationships |
Friendship Interaction Skills Across the Life SpanW. Samter |
Accomplishing Romantic RelationshipsK. Dindia and L. Timmerman |
Communication Skills in Couples: A Review and Discussion of Emerging PerspectivesA.B. Kelly and F.K. Fincham and S.R.H. Beach |
Parenting Skills and Social-Communicative Competence in ChildhoodC.H. Hart and L.D. Newell and S.F. Olsen |
Part V Skills in Public and Professional Contexts |
Negotiation SkillsM.E. Roloff and L.L. Putnam and L. Anastasiou |
Communication Skills for Group Decision MakingD.S. Gouran |
Skillfully Instructing Learners: How Communicators Effectively Convey MessagesJ.A. Daly and A.L. Vangelisti |
Interpersonal Communication Skills in Health Care ContextsR.L. Street, Jr. |
New Directions in Intercultural Communication Competence: The Process ModelC. Hajek and H. Giles |