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>