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Extending on her 1996 seminal and award-winning book on relational dialectics theory, Relating:Ay Dialogues and Dialectics (co-authored with Barbara Montgomery), author Leslie Baxter presents the A'next generationA of the theory:Ay relational dialogics theory.Ay This theory, and book, explores a greater nuanced understanding of the unity of opposites concept, presenting a more theoretically complex treatment of this and other key dialogic concepts.AyAy The text develops a rich palette of dialogic concepts useful in the study of communication and relationships andAyis centered around the followingAyconcepts:Ay (1) relationships are profoundly situated process--voices are always embodied in a specific space and time; (2) relationships are constituted in communication--they are voiced through verbal and nonverbal communicative practices; (3) relationships come to mean through the interplay of multiple, differing discourses. Ay