TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of intimacy in the production and perception of relationship talk within courtship
AU - Knobloch, Leanne K.
AU - Solomon, Denise Haunani
AU - Theiss, Jennifer A.
N1 - Funding Information:
1. This research is a portion of the first author's dissertation conducted under the direction of the second author. It was supported by a University of Wisconsin McCarty Dissertation Award granted to the first author and a University of Wisconsin Vilas Associate Award granted to the second author. The authors thank Carolynne Bernard, Dan Bruggeman, Anita Collins, Patricia Costello, Amanda Dobervich, Kate Emmerich, Stephanie Lundberg, Melissa Mueller, Yoonsoo Nam, Jamie Olson, Annie Richert, Nicolle Sallow, Alyssa Trussoni, and Sarah Wang for their help with data collection and coding. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Leanne K. Knobloch, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois, 244 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801; phone: 217-333-8913; fax: 217-244-1598; e-mail: knobl@uiuc.edu.
PY - 2006/8
Y1 - 2006/8
N2 - The authors define relationship talk as content messages that reference the nature of the relationship between people. They seek to contribute to the literature by (a) conceptualizing relationship talk in ways that attend to its nuances, and (b) evaluating how intimacy predicts the production and perception of relationship talk. They conducted an observational study of conversations between 120 dating couples. Length of romantic interest, compared to intimacy, was the more proximal predictor of the prominence, explicitness, depth, and negative valence of relationship talk. In general, relationship talk was positively associated with people's perceptions of the relational impact of conversation, but intimacy was unrelated to relational impact. The prominence of relationship talk noted by third-party judges was positively associated with relational impact when intimacy was low but not high. The authors discuss how their findings illuminate content messages about relationships.
AB - The authors define relationship talk as content messages that reference the nature of the relationship between people. They seek to contribute to the literature by (a) conceptualizing relationship talk in ways that attend to its nuances, and (b) evaluating how intimacy predicts the production and perception of relationship talk. They conducted an observational study of conversations between 120 dating couples. Length of romantic interest, compared to intimacy, was the more proximal predictor of the prominence, explicitness, depth, and negative valence of relationship talk. In general, relationship talk was positively associated with people's perceptions of the relational impact of conversation, but intimacy was unrelated to relational impact. The prominence of relationship talk noted by third-party judges was positively associated with relational impact when intimacy was low but not high. The authors discuss how their findings illuminate content messages about relationships.
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U2 - 10.1177/0093650206289148
DO - 10.1177/0093650206289148
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33745614899
SN - 0093-6502
VL - 33
SP - 211
EP - 241
JO - Communication Research
JF - Communication Research
IS - 4
ER -