Bridges Not Walls

John Stewart is Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Washington and director of the basic interpersonal communication course. His other text is Bridges Not Walls

Part I: ENTERING THE INTERPERSONAL ARENAChapter 1. Introduction to the Editor and Rationale to This Book Chapter 2. Defining Communication and Interpersonal CommunicationJohn Stewart, "Communicating and Interpersonal Communicating"David Bohm,"On Communication"Stuart J. Sigman, "Toward Study of the Consequentiality (Not Consequences) of Communication"Susan Scott, "Fierce Conversations"Neil Postman, "The Communication Panacea"Chapter 3. Defining Ourselves as CommunicatorsJohn Stewart Karen E. Zediker, and Saskia Witteborn, "Constructing Identities"Daniel Goleman, "The Rudiments of Social Intelligence"Gerald Corey and Marianne Schneider-Corey, "Meaning and Values"Harold Barrett, "Maintaining the Self in Communication"Richard Rodriquez, "Hispanic"Chapter 4. Making Contact Verbally and Nonverbally John Stewart and Carole Logan, "Verbal and Nonverbal Dimensions of Talk"Virginia Satir, "Paying Attention to Words"Mark L. Knapp and Judith A. Hall, "Nonverbal Communication: Basic Perspectives"Daniel J. Canary, Michael J. Cody, and Valerie L. Manusov, "Functions of Nonverbal Behavior" Part II: MAKING MEANING TOGETHERChapter 5. Understanding and Listening: Communication as InhalingSarah Trenholm and Arthur Jensen, "Interpretive Competence: How We Perceive Individuals, Relationships, andSocial Events"Julia T. Wood, "It's Only Skin Deep: Stereotyping and Totalizing Others"Kay Lindahl, "What Is Listening?"Karen Kissel Wegela, "Being a Good Listener"John M. Gottman, "Above All, Just Listen"John Stewart, Karen E. Zediker, and Saskia Witteborn, Logan, "Empathic and Dialogic Listening"Chapter 6. Engaging Others: Communication as ExhalingDavid Johnson, "Being Open with and to Other People"Matthew McKay, Martha Davis, and Patrick Fanning, "Expressing"John M. Gottman, "Putting Feelings into Words"Lawrence B. Rosenfeld and Jack B. Richman, "What to Tell: Deciding When, How, and What to Self-DiscloseBeverely Engel: "Confronting Emotional Abuse" Part III: CHANGING RELATIONSHIPSChapter 7. Communicating with Family and FriendsStephanie Coontz. "Working with What We've Got: The Strengths and Vulnerabilities of Today's Families"Kathleen M. Galvin and Bernard J. Brommel, "Intimacy and Closeness Within Families"Steve Duck, "Our Friends, Ourselves"John Hardwig, "In Search of An Ethic of Interpersonal Relationships" Chapter 8. Communicating with Intimate PartnersGerald Corey and Marrianne Schneider-Corey, "Intimate Relationships"Daniel J. Canary and Tara LM. Emmers-Sommer, with Sandra Faulkner, "Moving Beyond Sex and GenderStereotypes"Julia T. Wood, "Gendered Standpoints on Personal Relationships"Joyce A. Arditti and Melissa Kauffman, "Staying Close When Apart: Intimacy and Meaning in Long-Distance Dating Relationships"Alvin Cooper and Leda Sportolari, "Romance in Cyberspace: Understanding Online Attraction" Part IV: BRIDGES NOT WALLSChapter 9. Recognizing Communication WallsJohn Stewart and Carole Logan, "Deception, Betrayal, and Aggression"Anita L. Vangelisti, "Messages that Hurt"Kenneth N.Cissna and Evelyn Sieburg, "Patterns of Interactional Confirmation and Disconfirmation"Robert Greene, "The 48 Laws of Power"William W. Wilmot and Joyce L. Hocker, "Power: The Structure of Conflict"Patricia Evans, "Children and Verbal Abuse"Chapter 10. Managing Conflict by Turning Walls into BridgesJoseph P. Folger, Marshall Scott Poole, and Randall K. Stutman, "Conflict and Interaction"William W. Wilmot, "Communication Spirals, Paradoxes, and Conundrums"Jeffrey Kottler, "Taking Responsibility without Blaming"Steve Duck, "Handling the Break-up of Relationships"Hugh and Gayle Prather, "How to Resolve Issues Unmemorably"John Paul Lederach, "Conflict Transformation"Chapter 11: Bridging Cultural DifferencesDavid Johnson, "Building Relationships with Diverse Individuals"Letty Cottin Pogrebin, "The Same and Different: Crossing Boundaries of Color, Culture, Sexual Preference, Disability, and Age"Pui Yee Beryl Tsang, "There's a White Man in My Bed: Scenes from an Interracial Marriage"Marsha Houston, "When Black Women Talk with White Women: Why Dialogues Are Difficult"Chapter 12. Promoting DialogueDeborah Tannen, "The Roots of Debate and the Hope of Dialogue"Sheila McNamee and Kenneth J. Gergen; Eero Riikonen, "Relational Responsibility and Dialogue"William Issacs, "A Conversation with a Center, Not Sides"Karen Zediker and John Stewart, "Dialogue's Basic Tension"Rick Ross, "Skillful Discussion: Protocols for Reaching a Decision--Mindfully" Part V : APPROACHES TO INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATIONChapter 13. A Teacher's Approach C. Roland Christensen, "Every Student Teaches and Every Teacher Learns: The Reciprocal Gift of Discussion Teaching"Chapter 14. A Counselor's Approach Carl R. Rogers, "Experiences in Communication"Chapter 15. A Spiritual ApproachParker J. Palmer, "Leading From Within: Out of the Shadow, into the Light"Chapter 16. A Philosopher's ApproachMartin Buber, "Elements of the Interhuman"