A Lifetime of Communication: Transformations Through Relational Dialogues (Lea's Series on Personal Relationships) [1 ed.]
0805840923, 9780805840926, 9781410610546
A Lifetime of Communication explores the developmental processes that make for uniquely human change and growth. In this
Table of contents : Contents......Page 6 Series Foreword......Page 10 Preface......Page 14 1 Developmental Processes: A Brief Theoretical History......Page 18 Traditional Explanations of Development......Page 20 Breakthroughs in Developmental Theory: 1900–1930......Page 22 The Legacy: Contemporary Thought About Human Interaction......Page 28 Assumptions of a Relational-Dialogical Perspective of Development......Page 34 Summary......Page 37 Notes......Page 38 The Nature of Becoming Human: Ontogeny......Page 40 Nature and Nurture: The Recipe for a Human......Page 45 Notes......Page 63 Mutual Influence......Page 66 Reciprocity in Protoconversation......Page 82 Developmental Milestones of the First 2 Years......Page 87 Notes......Page 97 The Peculiarities of Human Communication......Page 100 Human Thinking: Constituting a Mind......Page 108 Self as a Special Concept......Page 124 Summary......Page 127 Notes......Page 128 Relationshipping: Creating Self and Sociality......Page 130 Beginners' Relationships: Dichotomies on the Way to Dialectics......Page 132 Summary: Implications for Relational Dialectics......Page 162 Notes......Page 164 Communicative and Relational Competence......Page 166 Contexts for Developing Competence......Page 190 Summary......Page 196 Notes......Page 197 7 Adolescence: Flowers of Maturation, Seeds of Dialectics......Page 200 The Physiology of Puberty......Page 201 The Mind of the Adolescent: Processing Experience......Page 202 Building Relationship Skills and Creating Relational Models......Page 211 Summary: Dualisms to Dialectics......Page 221 Notes......Page 222 8 The College Years: Rhetorical Challenges at the Boundaries......Page 224 Knowing the World and Knowing Self......Page 225 Effects of Formal Education on Communication......Page 249 Summary......Page 250 Notes......Page 251 Toward Dialogue: Differentiation From and Fusion With......Page 254 Dialogue: Beyond Competence to Rhetorical Elegance......Page 262 Relationship Maintenance and Change: Negotiation and Refinement......Page 267 Summary......Page 282 Notes......Page 283 10 Middle Adulthood: Nurturing and Relinquishing Youth......Page 286 Tensions in Middle Adulthood: Aging, Identity, and Dialectics......Page 287 Mid-Adult Relationshipping......Page 292 Summary: Generativity and Stagnation......Page 309 Notes......Page 310 Time and Tensions in the Later Years......Page 312 Dialogic Challenges of Older Adulthood......Page 319 Connections and Disconnections: Relationships in Later Years......Page 323 Relational Variations......Page 334 Preparing for Death......Page 336 Summary......Page 337 Notes......Page 338 12 Human Communication Futures: Beyond Dualities to Dialogic Consciousness......Page 340 The Relational-Dialogical Theory of Development......Page 341 Implications of Dialogic Development......Page 344 Notes......Page 351 B......Page 354 D......Page 355 I......Page 356 P......Page 357 S......Page 358 Z......Page 359 References......Page 360 B......Page 416 C......Page 418 D......Page 419 G......Page 420 H......Page 421 J......Page 422 K......Page 423 M......Page 424 P......Page 426 R......Page 427 S......Page 428 T......Page 429 W......Page 430 Z......Page 431 C......Page 432 F......Page 433 N......Page 434 R......Page 435 S......Page 436 Z......Page 437