Despite modest growth in interpretive research, the study of family communication remains predominantly situated within postpositivism to the relative neglect of critical approaches. We argue that this inattention derives partly from the limited number of critically inflected family communication theories. In this article, we seek to encourage critical family communication theorizing. We do so by explicating the critical underpinnings of the recent rearticulation of relational dialectics theory, RDT version 2.0 (Baxter, 2011). We frame our (re)reading in terms of critical family communication considerations of power; connection of private familial spheres to larger public discourses and structures; and inherent openness to critique, resistance, and transformation of the status quo (Suter, 2016).

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家庭传播研究中的批判性理论：（重新）阅读关系辩证法理论 2.0

尽管解释性研究略有增长，但对家庭交流的研究仍然主要位于后实证主义中，而相对忽视了批判性方法。我们认为，这种疏忽的部分原因是受到批判的家庭沟通理论数量有限。在本文中，我们寻求鼓励批判性的家庭沟通理论。我们通过解释关系辩证法理论 RDT 2.0 版（Baxter，2011）最近重新表述的关键基础来做到这一点。我们根据对权力的关键家庭沟通考虑来构建我们的（重新）阅读；私人家庭领域与更大的公共话语和结构的联系；以及对现状的批判、抵抗和转变的内在开放性（Suter，2016 年）。