A goal-directed approach to gaining compliance: Relating differences among goals to differences in behaviors

Communication Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 397-445

  Kellermann, Kathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriateness; Compliance gaining; Conversational constraints; Conversational goals; Efficiency; Face threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142746066     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650204266093     Document Type: Review

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