Understanding Face-to-face Interaction: Issues Linking Goals and Discourse (Communication Textbook Series/Language and Discourse Processes)

Tracy Karen

ISBN 10: 0805809074 / ISBN 13: 9780805809077

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 1991

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pp. 232.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Face-to-face Interaction: Issues Linking Goals and Discourse (Communication Textbook Series/Language and Discourse Processes)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805809074
• ISBN 13: 9780805809077
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Challenging current work in communication and social psychology that assumes face-to-face interaction can be adequately understood without attending to discourse expression, this volume examines how people's goals, concerns, and intentions can be related to discourse expression. The text discusses discourse-goal linkages in specific face-to-face encounters such as courtroom exchanges, marital counseling, and intellectual discussions, as well as in more general theoretical dilemmas. Because it poses a new set of questions about social actors' motivations and pre-interactional goals, this volume offers a new direction for discourse study -- one that seriously considers the thinking and strategy involved in human communication.

About the Author

Tracy, Karen