Conversations of Friends
Conversations of Friends
Speculations on Affective Development
John M. Gottman
Jeffrey G. Parker
Jeffrey G. Parker
July 1987
Unavailable - out of print September 1999
Hardback
9780521263214
Out of Print
Hardback
This book describes the results of thirteen years spent studying conversations between friends and speculates about the implications for a new theory of social and emotional development. The authors succinctly review the literature on the role of friendship in people's lives. They also thoughtfully delineate and clarify a number of methodological issues: naturalistic sampling, reliable and valid observations coding, sequential analysis, first vs. second order change, valid laboratory analogues, quantitative sociolinguistic techniques, and clinical applications. The notion of a support network is given an observational basis.
Product details
July 1987Hardback
9780521263214
448 pages
239 × 161 × 30 mm
0.789kg
Unavailable - out of print September 1999
