Karen Tracy 
Understanding Face-to-face Interaction [PDF ebook] 
Issues Linking Goals and Discourse

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.