A discourse analytic approach was used to examine how twenty young adult romantic couples (ages 19-26) employed criticisms and insinuations of infidelity in their natural unstructured interactions to indirectly and creatively pursue closeness. The research has been motivated by an expanding arena of research that shows that ostensibly contentious interactional moments among young adult intimates may not be adversarial, but rather may be methods that promote a playful repartee that leads to affiliation. I demonstrate how criticisms are both often highly gendered and typically formulated and responded to in tongue-in-cheek, non-serious ways that involve the creative use of various forms of irony, laughter, rekeyings, abrupt non-sequiturs, and...
The purpose of this study was to explore how natural language users employ emotional expressions in ...
This study examines the ways in which multiple modern communication technologies facilitate, across ...
Friendship with peers is an important part of young adults’ lives. Literature has addressed the sign...
A discourse analytic approach was used to examine how twenty young adult romantic couples (ages 19-2...
This study uses a discourse analytic approach to examine how twenty young adult heterosexual romanti...
The present study focuses on the gendered and playful ways that insults and criticisms are formulate...
This study examines how young adult romantic couples use I-language (talk about one’s own feelings o...
This study uses a discourse analytic approach to examine how twenty young adult heterosexual romanti...
One of the historically accepted dictums within interpersonal communication research is that the use...
Whereas language and gender studies’ explorations of couples’ talk have tended to focus on collabora...
In response to escalating divorce rates, considerable research has been conducted surrounding the re...
This study focuses on how potential romantic partners in speed-dating interactions use improprieties...
This research furthers our understanding of romantic love and coupledom: it flags taken-for-granted ...
As the number of young adults enrolled in colleges and universities increases, so too does the need ...
Intercultural romantic relationships with partners of diverse cultural backgrounds have become incre...
The purpose of this study was to explore how natural language users employ emotional expressions in ...
This study examines the ways in which multiple modern communication technologies facilitate, across ...
Friendship with peers is an important part of young adults’ lives. Literature has addressed the sign...
A discourse analytic approach was used to examine how twenty young adult romantic couples (ages 19-2...
This study uses a discourse analytic approach to examine how twenty young adult heterosexual romanti...
The present study focuses on the gendered and playful ways that insults and criticisms are formulate...
This study examines how young adult romantic couples use I-language (talk about one’s own feelings o...
This study uses a discourse analytic approach to examine how twenty young adult heterosexual romanti...
One of the historically accepted dictums within interpersonal communication research is that the use...
Whereas language and gender studies’ explorations of couples’ talk have tended to focus on collabora...
In response to escalating divorce rates, considerable research has been conducted surrounding the re...
This study focuses on how potential romantic partners in speed-dating interactions use improprieties...
This research furthers our understanding of romantic love and coupledom: it flags taken-for-granted ...
As the number of young adults enrolled in colleges and universities increases, so too does the need ...
Intercultural romantic relationships with partners of diverse cultural backgrounds have become incre...
The purpose of this study was to explore how natural language users employ emotional expressions in ...
This study examines the ways in which multiple modern communication technologies facilitate, across ...
Friendship with peers is an important part of young adults’ lives. Literature has addressed the sign...