Toward a theoretical account of goal characteristics in micro-level message features

Communication Monographs

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 22-45

  Samp, Jennifer A ^a   Solomon, Denise Haunani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Goals; Grammatical Encoding; Message Features; Message Production

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944476672     PISSN: 03637751     EISSN: 14795787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0363775052000342517     Document Type: Article

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