Prolegomena toward integrating social psychological and communicative parameters of intergroup relations

This prologue to a special issue on social psychological processes and intergroup communication begins by outlining the constituents of field communication. includes many major publications, disciplines orientations involved, methods, groups, communicative features studied together with selected research paradigms, applied domains, theories featured. The empirical articles that follow are discussed respect two fundamental issues. first refers seminal distinction manifest in identity theory, namely, how interactions can be distinguished, conceptually operationally, as either interindividual or intergroup. Consequently, terms they variably encounters. second relates past principles articulated, refined, elaborated further recourse, main, emergent concepts this issue.