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- Title
Cognitive Representations of Request Situations: The Relative Importance of Goal Specificity and Situation Features.
- Authors
Meyer, Janet R.
- Abstract
Presents studies that investigated the relative importance of goal specificity and features in judgments of the extent to which goal-feature combinations matched a target scenario in making requests. Review of literature on language choice in making a request; Factors that affect the politeness theory; Analysis of potential sources of communication failure.
- Subjects
GOAL (Psychology); INTERPERSONAL communication; JUDGMENT (Psychology); CHOICE (Psychology); COURTESY; PSYCHOLOGY; POLITENESS theory
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2003, Vol 67, Issue 3, p292
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570310309374773