ISBN:
9780898599572
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (320 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Communication Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Strategic Interpersonal Communication
DDC:
153.6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book discusses how people go about achieving their social goals through human symbolic interaction. The editors' collective presumption is that there are more or less typical ways that people attempt to obtain desired outcomes -- be they persuasive, informative, conflictive, or the like -- through communication. Representing a first summary of research done by scholars, primarily in the communication discipline, this volume seeks to identify and understand how it is that people achieve what they want through social interaction. Under the very broad label of strategies, this research has s
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Strategic Interpersonal Communication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Getting Your Own Way; 1 Acquiring Social Information; 2 Compliance-Gaining Goals: An Inductive Analysis of Actors' Goal Types, Strategies, and Successes; 3 The Language of Control in Interpersonal Communication; 4 Affinity Seeking; 5 Comforting Messages: Features, Functions, and Outcomes; 6 Communication Strategies in Conflict and Mediation; 7 Deception: Strategic and Nonstrategic Communication; 8 Strategies for Effective Communication and Adaptation in Intergroup Contexts
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Strategic Functions of Nonverbal ExchangeAuthor Index; Subject Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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