Arthur P. Bochner
American communication scholar known for his research and teaching on intimate relationships, qualitative inquiry, narrative, and autoethnography
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arthur P. Bochner is an American communication scholar known for his research and teaching on intimate relationships, qualitative inquiry, narrative, and autoethnography. He holds the rank of Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida. Bochner is the former President of the National Communication Association and former Vice-President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Among his publications are two books, two edited collections, and more than 100 book articles, chapters, and essays on communication theory, family and interpersonal communication, love and marriage, and the philosophies and methodologies of the human sciences, especially narrative inquiry and autoethnography.
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Published Works
- Autoethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher as Subject (2000) (2898)
- Autoethnography: An Overview (2010) (2591)
- Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing (1999) (675)
- Analyzing Analytic Autoethnography (2006) (517)
- Writing the New Ethnography (2000) (467)
- Criteria Against Ourselves (2000) (464)
- Narrative’s Virtues (2001) (448)
- It's About Time: Narrative and the Divided Self (1997) (309)
- Interpersonal Competence: Rationale, Philosophy, and Implementation of a Conceptual Framework; Interpersonal Communication Instruction--Theory and Practice; A Symposium. (1974) (216)
- Telling and Performing Personal Stories: The Constraints of Choice in Abortion (1992) (195)
- Ethnographically speaking : Autoethnography, Literature, and Aesthetics (2001) (191)
- An Introduction to the Arts and Narrative Research: Art as Inquiry (2003) (144)
- Perspectives on Inquiry III: The Moral of Stories (2002) (124)
- On first-person narrative scholarship: Autoethnography as acts of meaning (2012) (121)
- Personal Narrative as a Social Approach to Interpersonal Communication (1992) (117)
- Perspectives on Inquiry II: Theories and Stories (1994) (111)
- The Functions of Communication in Interpersonal Bonding (1984) (105)
- Communication as Autoethnography (2006) (97)
- On the Efficacy of Openness in Close Relationships (1981) (96)
- Talking and Thinking About Qualitative Research (2008) (96)
- Relationships as Stories (1996) (93)
- The dialectic of marital and parental relationships within the stepfamily (1990) (92)
- On Evocative Autoethnography (2021) (89)
- CONCEPTUAL FRONTIERS IN THE STUDY OF COMMUNICATION IN FAMILIES: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LITERATURE (1976) (84)
- Coming to Narrative: A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences (2014) (73)
- Practicing Narrative Inquiry (2014) (69)
- Perspectives on Inquiry: Representation, Conversation, and Reflection (1985) (69)
- Opportunity House: Ethnographic Stories of Mental Retardation (1999) (65)
- Understanding Family Communication (1990) (62)
- Notes Toward an Ethics of Memory in Autoethnographic Inquiry (2007) (56)
- State Of The Art: On Taking Ourselves Seriously: An Analysis of Some Persistent Problems and Promising Directions in Interpersonal Research. (1978) (56)
- Bringing Emotion and Personal Narrative into Medical Social Science (1999) (54)
- Telling and Living: Narrative Co-Construction and the Practices of Interpersonal Relationships (1995) (51)
- IMAGINING FAMILIES THROUGH STORIES AND RITUALS (2003) (48)
- WHICH WAY TO TURN? (1999) (45)
- Fiction and social research : by ice or fire (1998) (44)
- TAKING ETHNOGRAPHY INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (1996) (44)
- Healing Through Stories: A Special Issue on Narrative Medicine (2009) (42)
- The Conceptual Domain of Interpersonal Communication Behavior: A Factor-Analytic Study (1977) (41)
- Bird on the Wire (2012) (37)
- Mucking Around Looking For Truth (1998) (36)
- Telling and Performing Personal Stories (1992) (34)
- Interpersonal Perceptions and Marital Adjustment (1982) (30)
- Relationships as Stories: Accounts, Storied Lives, Evocative Narratives (2000) (30)
- Social Constructionist Perspectives in Communication Research (2007) (30)
- Unfurling Rigor: On Continuity and Change in Qualitative Inquiry (2018) (29)
- Legitimizing Speech Communication: An Examination of Coherence and Cohesion in the Development of the Discipline (1985) (26)
- Vulnerable Medicine (2009) (24)
- Factors affecting instruction in interpersonal competence (1977) (24)
- A multivariate investigation of machiavellianism and task structure in four‐man groups (1972) (24)
- On the Paradigm That Would Not Die (1991) (24)
- Task and instrumentation variables as factors jeopardizing the validity of published group communication research, 1970–1971 (1974) (22)
- Performing Femininity: Rewriting Gender Identity (2004) (22)
- Resisting the mystification of narrative inquiry: unmasking the real conflict between story analysts and storytellers. (2010) (21)
- Stories that conform, stories that transform (2000) (20)
- Heart of the Matter (2017) (19)
- Interpersonal Communication Theory and Research: An Overview of Inscrutable Epistemologies and Muddled Concepts (1979) (17)
- Warm Ideas and Chilling Consequences (2009) (17)
- A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Small Group Process (1975) (15)
- The ICQI and the Rise of Autoethnography (2016) (15)
- Coming Unhinged: A Twice-Told Multivoiced Autoethnography (2018) (14)
- The Effects of Social Status and Social Dialect on Listener Responses (1973) (13)
- Forming Warm Ideas (1981) (13)
- Living the Post-University Life: Academics Talk About Retirement (2017) (12)
- Perspectives on self and other: Male-female differences in perceptions of communication behavior (1981) (12)
- Family Process: System Perspectives on Family Communication (1987) (12)
- Optional Metaphors for Studying Interaction (1991) (12)
- Between Obligation and Inspiration (2012) (11)
- Communication’s Calling: The Importance of What We Care About (2008) (11)
- Teachers on Teaching (1994) (10)
- National Communication Association (NCA) Pre-convention Seminar (1997) (10)
- Suffering Happiness: On Autoethnography's Ethical Calling (2012) (10)
- How Does a Conference Begin (2002) (10)
- Modes of Interpersonal Behavior: A Replication (1974) (10)
- Affective and Instrumental Dimensions of Best, Equal, and Unequal Friendships. (1986) (9)
- Transfer of Power (2009) (9)
- Breathing Life into Work (2002) (9)
- Personal Narrative as Sociology (1992) (8)
- Embracing Contingencies of Lived Experience in the Study of Close Relationships (1990) (8)
- Reflexivity in Theory and Practice (1989) (8)
- Narrating the Closet (2011) (7)
- Storied Lives: Recovering the Moral Importance of Social Theory (1997) (7)
- Like a Bird on the Wire: Freeing the Father Within Me (2010) (7)
- How We Met (2003) (6)
- Autoethnography as a Way of Life (2020) (6)
- Terms of Perfection (2012) (6)
- Symbolic interaction in retrospect: A conversation with Norman Denzin (2002) (6)
- Communication and Opinion Formation (1974) (5)
- NCA Journals I: Is the Review Process Too Slow (2008) (5)
- Toward an Ethics of Memory in Autoethnography (2006) (5)
- Whither communication theory and research (1977) (5)
- Narrative Modes of Teaching Interpersonal and Family Communication (1995) (5)
- Talking-with as a Model for Writing About: Implications of Rortian Pragmatism for Communication Theory (1995) (4)
- Keeping the Conversation Going (2004) (4)
- Beyond Ingratiation: Factors Affecting the Communication of Interpersonal Evaluations (1977) (4)
- The Night of and the Mourning After: Truth and Transference in the Election of Donald Trump (2018) (4)
- The use of simulated speech profiles and the Prof technique in capturing the policies of speech raters (1972) (4)
- Resisting Institutional Depression (2009) (3)
- Our Writing Lives: An Introduction to Writing and Research Personal Views (2004) (3)
- Things that Boggle My Mind (2008) (3)
- Storytelling and the Self in Everyday Life: Narrative Inquiry on the Cutting Edge (2005) (3)
- Fuzzy Borders and the Fifth Moment. methodological issues (1997) (3)
- The Case Against the Anonymous Culture of Peer Review (2008) (3)
- Between Gay and Straight: Understanding Friendship beyond Sexual Orientation (1995) (3)
- Love Survives (2002) (3)
- Talking-With as a Model for Writing-About: Implications of Rortyean Pragmatism (1994) (2)
- Multivariate Analysis of Variance: Models, Techniques and Applications in Communication Research (1980) (2)
- Culture-Bearing and Sense-Making: Introduction to the Life and Scholarship of Janice Hocker Rushing (2006) (2)
- We Can Tell You Stories: Politics, Pleasure, and Pain I in Qualitative Inquiry (2010) (2)
- The Coercive Grip of Neutrality: Can Psychology Escape? (1993) (2)
- Janice's Voice (2006) (2)
- Art as Inquiry: Continuing the Conversation, (2003) (2)
- Communication as Social Construction (2007) (2)
- On Inscrutable Epistemologies and Muddled Concepts (1979) (2)
- Evocative Autoethnography – Evoking is as Evoking does (2021) (2)
- Epilogue: Autoethnography as a warm idea (2021) (2)
- An Impoverished Professoriate and the Future of Tenure (2008) (2)
- The Use of Simulated Profiles and the PROF Technique in Capturing the Policies of 'Raters' (1972) (2)
- Response to Raudenbush, Rowan, & Cheong In Research and Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives (2004) (1)
- Interpersonal Competence: A Paradigm for Planned Change in Undergraduate Communication Instruction. (1972) (1)
- Fathers and Sons (2008) (1)
- Special Issue in Honor of Janice Rushing (2006) (1)
- Toward a Methodology of the Heart: Daily Life and Higher Education (1995) (1)
- Meaningful Research, Aging, and Positive Transformation (2010) (1)
- Seeing through Film: Cinema as Inquiry and Pedagogy. (1995) (1)
- Introduction: Taking Ethnography into the Twenty-First Century (1996) (1)
- Toward Conceptualizing the Domain of Interpersonal Behavior: A Factor-Analytic Study. (1973) (1)
- Elizabeth Andersch Distinguished Scholar Lecture (2006) (1)
- Response to Carr, Levin, McConnachie, Carlson, Kemp, Smith & McLaughlin In Research and Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives (2004) (1)
- Sucking Up and Dumbing Down (2008) (1)
- Symbolic interaction and communication: NCA spotlight on the contributions of David R. Maines (2001) (1)
- The Case for Service to NCA (2008) (1)
- Ordinary People and the Call of Stories (1992) (1)
- The Arts and Narrative Inquiry (2003) (1)
- Publishing Qualitative Work (2002) (1)
- When Does a Conference End (2002) (1)
- Interpretive and Narrative Perspectives in the Social Sciences In Research and Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives (2004) (1)
- Searching for a Healthy Academic Life: Innovations in Narrative and Autoethnographic Inquiry (2010) (1)
- Applying communication theory to family communication: An editor's introduction (1989) (1)
- Narrative Inquiry; Storytelling; Aging and Health; Ethnography; Interpersonal Communication; Close Relationships: Communication Theory; Philosophy of Communication; Marital and Family Communication; Social Construction; Qualitative Research. (2011) (1)
- Emotionality in Holocaust Testimonies: Survivors, Interviewers, and Listeners (2010) (1)
- Writing from the Periphery (2001) (1)
- Into the Garden of Illini (2012) (1)
- Co-Constructed Narrative as Interpersonal Process (1994) (1)
- Unfurling Reflective Practice: Engaging Multiple Voices Through Storytelling (2008) (1)
- A Narrative Perspective on Interpersonal Communication (1996) (1)
- Autoethnography as Applied Communication Research (2020) (1)
- Letters from Tampa (2002) (1)
- What’s the Point? Crossing Boundaries and Keeping the Conversation Going (2004) (1)
- Prof: A Simulation and Analysis Technique for Capturing Information-Processing Policies (1973) (1)
- Respondent to Session on "New Forms of Ethnographic Representation" (1993) (0)
- We Can Tell You Stories: Bringing Emotions, Memory Work, and Evocative Writing into Qualitative Research (2010) (0)
- Issues in the Use of Narratives to Teach Family Communication (1994) (0)
- LETTER FROM TAMPA: BEGINNING AT THE END (2004) (0)
- Asilomar at 30: Remembering Gregory Bateson’s Contributions to Communication Theory (2009) (0)
- Wither Relational Communication Research: Trends and Directions in the Next Decade (1985) (0)
- Keynote Public Lecture for Education after 9/11 (2002) (0)
- Narrative Truth: Toward an Expressive Sociology (1996) (0)
- Communication as a Humanistic Discipline (2005) (0)
- Coming to narrative: Meaning and method in a university life (2013) (0)
- Session Eight: Reflecting on Truth and Memory Work (2016) (0)
- Notes on Contradiction and Interpersonal Communication: Toward a Dialectical Perspective on Relational Development (1980) (0)
- Interpretive Human Studies at USF: Narrative Inquiry as a Bridge Between Humanities and Social Sciences (1993) (0)
- Invited Keynote Lecture for Seminar on The Arts and Narrative Inquiries (2001) (0)
- Invited lecture for Research Centre for Contemporary Culture and the Network Cultural Studies (2001) (0)
- Response to Confrontation on the Evening News: The Interactive Discourse of Dan Rather and George Bush (1989) (0)
- Playing the Survivor (2011) (0)
- On Theories and Stories (1994) (0)
- Editors’ Introduction: Anna Banks & Stephen P. Banks (1998) (0)
- Keynote speaker for the Innovations in Qualitative Research Conference (2010) (0)
- Editors’ Introduction: Stacy Holman Jones (1998) (0)
- Personal Narratives in Teaching Courses Focusing on Close Relationships (2000) (0)
- Critique of "Papers on Interracial Communication" (1985) (0)
- Minding Mother: A Critical Autoethnography (2001) (0)
- On the Ethnography of Loss (1998) (0)
- FILMED FROM BEST AVAILABLE COPY (2007) (0)
- The Symposium on Teaching The Undergraduate Family Communication Course (1999) (0)
- Session Six: Ethnographic Alternatives (2016) (0)
- Invited Presentation for The China Communication Forum 2004 (2004) (0)
- Leaning: A Poetics of Relationships (2011) (0)
- Asilomar at Thirty: Reflections on the 1979 NCA/ICA Conference in Honor of Gregory Bateson (2009) (0)
- Editors’ Introduction: Annette N. Markham (1998) (0)
- Practicing Narrative Inquiry II (2020) (0)
- Relationship As Stories Symposium (1996) (0)
- Session Seven: Thinking with “Bird on the Wire” (2016) (0)
- Family Communication Research: A Critical Review of Approaches, Methodologies and Substantive Findings. (1975) (0)
- Critique of five papers on "Relational Communication" (1986) (0)
- Doctor/Patient Communication as Conversation (1987) (0)
- The Making of "Coming to Narrative": Blended Genres in the Human Sciences (2017) (0)
- Session Five: Ethical Challenges (2016) (0)
- Explorations in Social Constructionism: A Case Study in Re-describing War Experience (1988) (0)
- Technique or Tradition: Differences between Mass Communications as a Profession and Speech Communication as a Liberal Study (1988) (0)
- Evaluating Ethnographic Alternatives: Editors’ Reflections (2000) (0)
- Phenomena of Language (1989) (0)
- Meaning and Method in a University Life (2009) (0)
- Conference Report: Ethnography for the Twenty-First Century: Alternatives and Opportunities (2000) (0)
- Remembering Richard Rorty (2008) (0)
- Between Obligation and Inspiration 1 (2016) (0)
- The Scientific Field of Communication after Kuhn (1982) (0)
- Living Our Stories or Storying Our Lives (1993) (0)
- Response to Alexander In Research and Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives (2004) (0)
- The Neglect of Autobiography, Subjectivity, and Emotion in Communication Research: A Call for Stories (1993) (0)
- Session Three: Crafting Evocative Autoethnography (2016) (0)
- Is the NCA Convention Too Big and the Field Too Fragmented (2008) (0)
- TITLE Family Co 4 munication Research : A Critical Review of Approaches , Methodologies and Substantive Findings (2011) (0)
- Exploring Forms of Reflexivity in Narratives of Communication (1997) (0)
- On Taking Relational Communication More Seriously (1989) (0)
- Invited lecture for Personal Narrative (2009) (0)
- An Interpretive World View and the Study of Family Communication (1990) (0)
- Session Four: Thinking with “Maternal Connections” (2016) (0)
- Coda: Restoring Harmony, by Csaba Osvath and Erica Newport (2016) (0)
- Minding Mother II: Paperwork (2003) (0)
- Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Work and Life (2006) (0)
- Writing for the Reader: Storytelling as Journalism, Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (1992) (0)
- The Dialectics of Expression and Protection: A Personal Account of Web CT Forum Participation in a Course on Close Relationships (2001) (0)
- The Social Construction of Communication Theory (1980) (0)
- Toasting Tom: Roasting, Razzing, and Respecting the Scholarship, Teaching, and Service of Thomas S. Frentz (2009) (0)
- Arthur P. Bochner, 2008 President, National Communication Association (2014) (0)
- Bringing the First-Person Voice Into Ethnography (1998) (0)
- Invited Public Lecture for Centre for Contemporary Culture (2002) (0)
- A Conversation with Norman Denzin (2000) (0)
- A Meaningful Academic Life: Improvised, Amusing, Unsettling (2020) (0)
- Coming to Narrative: Memory, Time, and Narrative in Autoethnographic Research (2007) (0)
- Response to the Top Three in Communication Theory (1989) (0)
- Talking-with as a Model for Writing-about: Rorty's Contributions to Communication Theory (1993) (0)
- Keynote lecture for Biographies: Between ‘Professional’ and ‘Non-Professional’ Dimensions of the Humanities (2012) (0)
- Session One: Coming to Autoethnography (2016) (0)
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