Preface --Introduction: embracing a full spectrum of interpersonal communication research --
Understanding personal relationships through an interpretivist-oriented lens --
Method and analysis in qualitative relationships research --
Interviews, emotion coding, and a family communication study --
Focus groups, values coding, and a romantic relationships study --
Open-ended surveys, taxonomic coding, and a friendship study --
Ethnography, dramaturgical coding, and a sexuality study --
Discourse analysis, thematic analysis, and a study of computer-mediated communication --
Narrative inquiry, crystallization, and a study of workplace relationships --
Writing and presenting qualitative interpersonal communication studies --
References --
Index --
About the authors.

This title explores and demonstrates methodological tools and theories used to guide relationships research, especially studies of interpersonal communication. Featuring chapters illustrated by research studies conducted by leading communication scholars, this book introduces both classic and cutting-edge methodological approaches to qualitative inquiry and analysis. Each chapter highlights a particular method context, and analytical tool.