Understanding Face-to-face Interaction

<p>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.</p> <p><b>Contents: K. Tracy,</b> Introduction: Linking Communicator Goals With Discourse. <b>Part I: </b><i>Discourse-Goal Linkages in Specific Face-To-Face Encounters.</i><b>R. Penman,</b> Goals, Games, and Moral Orders: A Paradoxical Case in Court? <b>S. Jacobs, S. Jackson, S. Stearns, B. Hall,</b> Digressions in Argumentative Discourse: Multiple Goals, Standing Concerns, and Implicatures. <b>R. Buttny, J.R. Cohen,</b> The Uses of Goals in Therapy. <b>N. Coupland, J. Coupland, H. Giles, K. Henwood,</b> Intergenerational Talk: Goal Consonance and Intergroup Dissonance. <b>W.K. Rawlins,</b> On Enacting Friendship and Interrogating Discourse. <b>Part II: </b><i>Theoretical Dilemmas Linking Goals and Discourse.</i><b>J.B. Bavelas,</b> Some Problems With Linking Goals to Discourse. <b>B.J. O'Keefe,</b> Message Design Logic and the Management of Multiple Goals. <b>J. Mandelbaum, A. Pomerantz,</b> What Drives Social Action? <b>R.E. Sanders,</b> The Two-Way Relationship Between Talk in Social Interactions and Actors' Goals and Plans. <b>G.J. Shepherd, E.W. Rothenbuhler,</b> A Synthetic Perspective on Goals and Discourse. <b>Appendix: </b>Transcript Notation.</p>