10: Friendship Relationships

Question 1

any experience of feeling or emotion, ranging from suffering to elation, from the simplest to the most complex sensations of feeling, and from the most normal to the most pathological emotional reactions

Answer 1

affect

Question 2

the ability of an interactant to choose among available communicative behaviors in order that they may successfully accomplish their own interpersonal goals, while maintaining the face and line of their fellow interactants within the constraints of the situation

Answer 2

communication competence

Question 3

dialectics that stem out of the cultural order where the friendship exists

Answer 3

contextual dialectics

Question 4

dialectics that help us understand how communicative behavior happens within friendships

Answer 4

interactional dialectics