Understanding Face-to-face Interaction: Issues Linking Goals and Discourse

By Karen Tracy

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805809074
• ISBN13: 9780805809077
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"