exploring metaphors for family communication Manning, Jimmie editor. Allen, Jordan (Assistant professor of communication studies) editor. Denker, Katherine J. editor. text bibliography nju 2022 monographic eng

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xix, 229 pages ; 26 cm. "Before the last half of the twentieth century, the phrase "family communication as relationship" would have struck a reader as unintelligible. Communication between and among family members was neither an object of scientific study nor a focus of individual reflection or cultural analysis. Moreover, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word relationship first appeared in 1744 but was not applied "specifically of romantic or sexual relationships" for another two hundred years. The field of communication made a turn to studying communication in relationships and the family during the late 1960s and 1970s as it abandoned the common but fairly bloodless definition of interpersonal communication as face-to-face communication between two people. Influenced by classic works in family systems theory, such as that by Satir (1972), Watzlawick, Beavin, and Jackson (1967), and Bateson (1972), the field adopted the metaphor of the family as a system of relationships built, maintained, changed, and destabilized through interaction. Within ten years, Galvin and Brommel (1982) had produced a textbook on family communication that could overview the extensive research analyzing patterns of interaction within families. Starting with couple interaction data (Gottman 1979), Gottman (2002) built a strong mathematical model for the metaphors of family interaction presented in the family system theories. Even though the metaphor of family communication as relationship has generated important research directions, some theorists argue that metaphors are imprecise, ambiguous, and therefore have no place in scientific discourse. But language, even much scientific language, is metaphorical because we discuss one thing in terms of another (Lakoff and Johnson 1980). Of course, literal statements (e.g., the cat sits on the mat) are possible but as soon as we move from concrete physical experience to talk about abstractions, we employ metaphor."-- Family communication as choice: thinking about and theorizing family -- Family communication as relationship -- Family communication as ritual --Family communication as biology -- Family communication as maintenance Family communication as transition -- Family communication as social identity -- Family communication as Heteronormative -- Family communication as raced -- Family communication as embodied -- Family communication as performance -- Family communication as narrative -- Family communication as dialogue -- Family communication as object nishani: mother objects in other worlds -- Family communication as memory -- Family communication as boundary -- Family communication as organization -- Family communication as health -- Family communication as mediated -- Family communication as (an) Art -- Family communication as argument -- Family communication as deviance -- Family communication as Taboo -- Family communication as Failure -- Family communication as Death -- Family communication as Forgiveness -- Family communication as Support -- Family communication as Resilience. edited by Jimmie Manning, Jordan Allen, and Katherine J. Denker. Includes bibliographical references and index. English Communication in families HQ734 .F241215 2022 646.78 F210 Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2022 (DLC) 2021062108 9781119668398 2021062107 WaSeSS/DLC 220110 20250221162337.0 22383195 eng