RICHARD L. CONVILLE is Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has taught in the field of interpersonal communication since 1972, and his research has appeared in journals such as Human Communication Research, the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Communication Monographs. Professor Conville has served on the Board of Directors of the International Communication Association and on the editorial boards of the Southern Communication Journal and Communication Theory.

• Preface The Ubiquity of Difference: They Saw a Game Transition and Difference in Relationships: With New Eyes Structural Analysis of Relationship Transitions: Similar Differences From Description to Explanation in Relationship Transition: Repititive without Repeating Relationship Security: Fitting Relations Relationship Disintegration: Taking Notice Relationship Alienation: Still Life Relationship Resynthesis: Homo Relatio Prospect: Via Appendixes References Index

RICHARD L. CONVILLE is Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has taught in the field of interpersonal communication since 1972, and his research has appeared in journals such as Human Communication Research, the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Communication Monographs. Professor Conville has served on the Board of Directors of the International Communication Association and on the editorial boards of the Southern Communication Journal and Communication Theory.

• Preface The Ubiquity of Difference: They Saw a Game Transition and Difference in Relationships: With New Eyes Structural Analysis of Relationship Transitions: Similar Differences From Description to Explanation in Relationship Transition: Repititive without Repeating Relationship Security: Fitting Relations Relationship Disintegration: Taking Notice Relationship Alienation: Still Life Relationship Resynthesis: Homo Relatio Prospect: Via Appendixes References Index

RICHARD L. CONVILLE is Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has taught in the field of interpersonal communication since 1972, and his research has appeared in journals such as Human Communication Research, the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Communication Monographs. Professor Conville has served on the Board of Directors of the International Communication Association and on the editorial boards of the Southern Communication Journal and Communication Theory.

• Preface The Ubiquity of Difference: They Saw a Game Transition and Difference in Relationships: With New Eyes Structural Analysis of Relationship Transitions: Similar Differences From Description to Explanation in Relationship Transition: Repititive without Repeating Relationship Security: Fitting Relations Relationship Disintegration: Taking Notice Relationship Alienation: Still Life Relationship Resynthesis: Homo Relatio Prospect: Via Appendixes References Index