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A 3 page paper discussing Julia Wood’s narrative, dialectic and dramaturgical communication theories. They can classify communication in the present, but they do not accommodate changes in relationships that result in changes in types of communication between the individuals involved. Even so, they are useful for analyzing the type of communication that is occurring between individuals in the present. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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interpersonal communication has been a point of interest for several decades, but in recent years it has gained a great deal of attention as researchers and theorists - and much
of the general population - seek to define and categorize types of communication that occur between individuals. John Grays Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus brought the
issue of gender-based communication differences to the popular press, but the issue was of interest in academic circles long before the general population came to be aware of it.
Woods (2003) latest book on the topic seeks to inform practical communication with theory, three of which are discussed here. Types of Communication
There are, of course, different communication approaches for different situations. An individual addresses business colleagues much differently than s/he addresses a parent or spouse, and generally discusses issues in
each group that do not transcend to topics broached with members of the other group. This is only one pairing; there are many other categories of individuals and the
positions they occupy in our lives. Such divisions exist for each category. Julia Wood (2003) discusses several theories of communication. Three
discussed here are narrative, dialectic and dramaturgical. Narrative Narrative theory is that which addresses communication in a linear method. It may or
may not tell a story; the point is that it progresses from point A to point B along a prescribed path. More commonly, however, narrative theory does involve communication
that tells a story. Narrative psychology is an outgrowth of this theory in that it seeks to explore the stories that people tell, stories that emerge from individuals perspectives
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