Leslie A. Baxter

Leslie's research focuses on communication in friendship and romantic, marital, and kin relationships. She is particularly interested in applying quantitative and qualitative analysis to study the contradictions that face relationship parties in their communicative practices.

Contents:

Kathleen M. Galvin: Blood, Law, and Discourse: Constructing and Managing Family Identity – Leslie A. Baxter: Theorizing the Communicative Construction of «Family»: The Three R’s – Tamara D. Afifi, Shardé Davis/Anne Merrill: Single-Parent Families: Creating a Sense of Family from Within – Melissa W. Alemán: «I’m the parent and the grandparent»: Constructing the Grandfamily – Devika Chawla: Remaking Hindu Arranged Marriages in the Narrative Performances of Urban Indian Women – Keli Ryan Steuber: Life without Kids: In (Voluntarily) Childless Families – Elizabeth A. Suter: The Adopted Family – Paul Schrodt: Discourse Dependence, Relational Ambivalence, and the Social Construction of Stepfamily Relationships – Dawn O. Braithwaite/Rebecca DiVerniero: «He became like my other son»: Discursively Constructing Voluntary Kin – Erin Sahlstein Parcell: Military Families: Remaking Shared Residence, Traditional Marriage, and Future Communication Research – Karla Bergen: Discourse Dependence in the Commuter Family – Chitra Akkoor: «Is he my real uncle?»: Re-constructing Family in the Diaspora.