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.