Social dialectics: The contradictions of relating

Explaining Communication: Contemporary Theories and Exemplars

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 305-324

  Baxter, Leslie A ^a   Braithwaite, Dawn O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410614308     Document Type: Chapter

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