Though social network site use is often treated as a monolithic activity, in which all time is
equally social and its impact the same for all users, we examine how Facebook affects social …

Laughter in Interaction is an illuminating and lively account of how and why people laugh
during conversation. Bringing together twenty-five years of research on the sequential …

We review cross‐disciplinary research on gossip and integrate it with two streams of
theoretical scholarship: paradox theory and the communicative constitution of organization …

Our basic premise remains the same—communication processes create and reflect family
systems and family identity. Relying on a range of theoretical perspectives, we examine the …

In 3 studies with student samples, we advance a social‐motivational approach to gossip. We
developed the M otives to G ossip Q uestionnaire to distinguish negative influence …

Although gossip is widespread, seldom has it been a topic of management research. Here
the researchers build a conceptual model of workplace gossip and its effects on the power of …

This article discusses five interrelated conceptions of dialogue in the works of Russian
scholar Mikhail Bakhtin that ground relational dialectics theory:(a) dialogue as constitutive …

Human Communication Theory and Research introduces students to the growing body of
theory and research in communication, demonstrating the integration between the …

The article presents an analysis of actual, recorded social interactions between close
familiars with the goal to describe discursive practices involved in showing engagement with …

During the past 4 decades, the research foci encompassed by the interpersonal
communication domain have undergone considerable change. In the 1960s, research …