Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / John M. Wiemann
  • Preface / John O. Greene, Brant R. Burleson
  • PART I. GENERAL THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES:
  • Explicating communicative competence as a theoretical term / Steven R. Wilson, Christina M. Sabee
  • Models of adult communication skill acquisition: practice and the course of performance improvement / John O. Greene
  • Methods of interpersonal skill assessment / Brian H. Spitzberg
  • Methods of social skills training and development / Chris Segrin, Michelle Givertz
  • PART II. FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTION SKILLS:
  • Nonverbal communication skills / Judee K. Burgoon, Aaron E. Bacue
  • Applying the skills concept to discourse and conversation: the remediation of performance defects in talk-in-interaction / Robert E. Sanders
  • Message production skill in social interaction / Charles R. Berger
  • Message reception skills in social communication / Robert S. Wyer, Jr., Rashmi Adaval
  • Impression management: goals, strategies, and skills / Sandra Metts, Erica Grohskopf
  • PART III. FUNCTION-FOCUSED COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
  • Informing and explaining skills: theory and research on informative communication / Katherine E. Rowan
  • Arguing skill / Dale Hample
  • Persuasion as a social skill / James Price Dillard, Linda J. Marshall
  • Managing interpersonal conflict: a model of events related to strategic choices / Daniel J. Canary
  • Emotional support skills / Brant R. Burleson
  • How to "do things" with narrative: a communication perspective on narrative skill / Jenny Mandelbaum
  • PART IV. SKILLS IN CLOSE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
  • Friendship interaction skills across the life-span / Wendy Samter
  • Accomplishing romantic relationships / Kathryn Dindia, Lindsay Timmerman
  • Communication skills in couples: a review and discussion of emerging perspectives / Adrian B. Kelly [and others]
  • Parenting skills and social-communicative competence in childhood / Craig H. Hart [and others]
  • PART V. SKILLS IN PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONAL CONTEXTS:
  • Negotiation skills / Michael E. Roloff [and others]
  • Communication skills for group decision making / Dennis S. Gouran
  • Skillfully instructing learners: how communicators effectively convey messages / John A. Daly, Anita L. Vangelisti
  • Interpersonal communication skills in health care contexts / Richard L. Street, Jr
  • New directions in intercultural communication competence: the process model / Christopher Hajek, Howard Giles.