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This paper re-theorizes and clarifies the relationships between features of interpersonal communication situations and participants' goals.
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Reasonably apparent features of a situation give rise to primary goals, which stimulate subjective elements of the situation, which in turn give rise to secondary goals.
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This resolves the two main views of situation/goals: that situations stimulate goals, and that situations are comprised of the goals.
Dale Hample
Western Illinois University
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This page is a summary of: A Theory of Interpersonal Goals and Situations, Communication Research, January 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0093650214565899.
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