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Message Production (message + production)

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Selected Abstracts

Relational Uncertainty and Message Production Within Courtship: Features of Date Request Messages

HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, Issue 3 2006
Leanne K. Knobloch
This paper theorizes about how relational uncertainty may predict features of date request messages within courtship. It reports a study in which 248 individuals role-played leaving a date request voice mail message for their partner. Relational uncertainty was negatively associated with the fluency (H1), affiliativeness (H2), relationship focus (H3), explicitness (H4), and perceived effectiveness (H5) of messages. Also as expected, relational uncertainty was negatively associated with people's perceptions of the effectiveness of their messages after covarying the judgments of independent observers (H6). Relational uncertainty continued to predict features of messages when length of romantic interest was covaried (RQ1). The paper concludes by discussing the implications of the results for understanding the link between relational uncertainty and message production. [source]

Evanescent Mentation: An Amelioative Conceptual Foundation for Research and Theory on Message Production

COMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 2 2000
John 0.
Current theorizing about message encoding can be seen to reflect a characterization of the phenomenon that is overly static, coherent, and uniplanar, including some variations on the uniplanar theme,too verbal, too propositional, and too mentalistic. This paper examines each of these points of received understanding and suggests the need for approaches that are better able to capture the fluid, disjointed, and multiplanar character of messages and message production. The dominant approach to message production, the goals-plans-action framework, is then examined in light of this alternative characterization, with the result being the emergence of a rich set of new conceptual issues and questions. Finally, the potential of a particular theory of message production, second-generation action assembly theory (Greene, 1997), for addressing these issues is examined. [source]

Goal Detection and Efficiency: Neglected Aspects of Message Production

COMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 2 2000
Charles R. Berger
Communication researchers interested in message production have yet to delineate clearly the unique aspects of the message-production process they wish to explain. The processes by which others' goals are detected in social situations and the degree to which the deployment of messages and actions achieves goals efficiently are two aspects of message production that require explanation. The potential adaptive significance of goal detection, the degree to which various goals require message production for their achievement, and the relationship between common ground and efficiency also are considered. [source]

Relational Uncertainty and Message Production Within Courtship: Features of Date Request Messages

HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, Issue 3 2006
Leanne K. Knobloch
This paper theorizes about how relational uncertainty may predict features of date request messages within courtship. It reports a study in which 248 individuals role-played leaving a date request voice mail message for their partner. Relational uncertainty was negatively associated with the fluency (H1), affiliativeness (H2), relationship focus (H3), explicitness (H4), and perceived effectiveness (H5) of messages. Also as expected, relational uncertainty was negatively associated with people's perceptions of the effectiveness of their messages after covarying the judgments of independent observers (H6). Relational uncertainty continued to predict features of messages when length of romantic interest was covaried (RQ1). The paper concludes by discussing the implications of the results for understanding the link between relational uncertainty and message production. [source]

Evanescent Mentation: An Amelioative Conceptual Foundation for Research and Theory on Message Production

COMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 2 2000
John 0.
Current theorizing about message encoding can be seen to reflect a characterization of the phenomenon that is overly static, coherent, and uniplanar, including some variations on the uniplanar theme,too verbal, too propositional, and too mentalistic. This paper examines each of these points of received understanding and suggests the need for approaches that are better able to capture the fluid, disjointed, and multiplanar character of messages and message production. The dominant approach to message production, the goals-plans-action framework, is then examined in light of this alternative characterization, with the result being the emergence of a rich set of new conceptual issues and questions. Finally, the potential of a particular theory of message production, second-generation action assembly theory (Greene, 1997), for addressing these issues is examined. [source]

Goal Detection and Efficiency: Neglected Aspects of Message Production

COMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 2 2000
Charles R. Berger
Communication researchers interested in message production have yet to delineate clearly the unique aspects of the message-production process they wish to explain. The processes by which others' goals are detected in social situations and the degree to which the deployment of messages and actions achieves goals efficiently are two aspects of message production that require explanation. The potential adaptive significance of goal detection, the degree to which various goals require message production for their achievement, and the relationship between common ground and efficiency also are considered. [source]