Voicing Relationships: A Dialogic Perspective

Russian Educators about Communication and the Need for Communication Education

“…Pearce, 1994Floyd, 2011;Adler, Rosenfeld, & Proctor, 2012, Baxter, 2011Леонтьев, 2007;Соколов, 2001;). В ответах российских преподавателей, характеризующих общение, слово смысл встречается не более трех раз, что свидетельствует о том, что большинство опрошенных не рассматривают общение (равно как и коммуникацию) под этим углом зрения: как порождение смыслов, совместное смыслообразование и смыслосогласование.…”

Vanity vs. Gluttony: Competing Christian Discourses on Personal Health

“…It is a particularly useful lens for health research because the same material health event may signify different things to different people as a result of the discourses they are exposed to and engage in (Baxter, 2011). For example, one person diagnosed with breast cancer may interpret it as a loss of womanhood, whereas another may interpret it as a punishment for sin.…”

“…In addition, such messages may prompt the audience to alter their discourse about exercise, so that their communication more strongly expresses the connection between their personal values and exercise attitudes. Since meaning-making occurs through communication and shapes our material realities (Baxter, 2011), prompting new types of discourse about exercise is a useful communicative step toward improving the health of this community.…”

“…From that foundation, practitioners can develop messages that persuade religious individuals to adopt (and to maintain) physically active lifestyles (Kreuter, Lukwago, Bucholtz, Clark, & Sanders-Thompson, 2003). Intervention messages must draw on the ways that faith communities talk about and give meaning to health issues, like exercise, to create a uniquely communicative approach to designing persuasive health messages for this population (Baxter, 2011). Atkin (2001) draws on decades of theoretical and empirical literature to argue that tailored intervention messages are more effective at modifying attitudes and ultimately leading to behavior change.…”

Discursive Struggles of Tradition and Nontradition in the Retrospective Accounts of Married Couples Who Cohabited Before Engagement

“…We conceptualize tradition as broader cultural understandings of how rituals such as engagements have been-and continue to be-enacted. We consider these cultural understandings of tradition and nontradition as constituted in discourse; therefore, relational dialectics theory (Baxter, 2011) framed our exploration of the negotiation of marriage proposal rituals among married couples who cohabited before engagement. We focused on the discursive interplay of three stages in participants' relationships: before, during, and after their marriage proposal.…”