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Newell, Sara E.; Stutman, Randall K. – Communication Monographs, 1988
Presents a model of social confrontation (communication episodes initiated when one participant signals that the other's behavior violates a rule or expectation for appropriate conduct). Describes issues arising during social confrontation. Concludes that negotiating expectations or relational rules within a problematic situation is the crux of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Standards, Communication Problems, Communication Research

Pearce, W. Barnett; Conklin, Forrest – Communication Monographs, 1979
Presents a model of meanings in coherent conversation taking the form of a hierarchy of levels of cognitive interpolations between the stream of behavior and archetypal patterns in conversations. A study of indirect responses in conversation is reported which supports the hierarchical structure of the model. (JMF)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Information Theory, Interaction Process Analysis