Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz. Director, Center for Intercultural Dialogue, USA Harron Family Endowed Chair in IntroductionIntroduction. Meta-theory and Theory in Interpersonal Communication Research. Dawn O. Braithwaite and Leslie A. Baxter. O. ur goal for this book is to Meta-communication is a secondary communication (including indirect cues) about how a piece of information is meant to be interpreted. It is based on the idea that the same compile meta-analyses on broad areas of communication resear