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The Meanings of “Open Communication” Among Couples Coping With a Cardiac Event

Patient and Partner Strategies for Talking about Lifestyle Change Following a Cardiac Event

Openness and avoidance in couples communicating about cancer

Communication About Lifestyle Change Between Cardiac Patients and Their Partners

Colloquy on information seeking

Colloquy on Information Seeking - Information Seeking and Avoiding in Health Contexts

A Normative Approach to the Study of Uncertainty and Communication

Soliciting Advice: The Role of Sequential Placement in Mitigating Face Threat - Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory emphasizes threats to face that arise from the defining features of speech acts. In contrast, the two studies reported here demonstrate how the sequencing of acts affects type and degree of face threat. By exploring these issues as they apply to the solicitation of advice, these studies also shed light on the practical problem of how to give face-sensitive advice. Study 1 proposes a typology of six advice sequences derived from ethnographic observation of 93 advice-giving episodes among white, middle-class, college educated Americans. Study 2 tests whether the six types of sequences differ in perceived advice solicitation and regard for face by asking 420 college students to rate sample dialogues. Results show the sequential placement of advice has a significant and substantial effect on the degree to which advice is seen as solicited and this, in turn, is associated with perceived regard for face

Soliciting advice : the role of sequential placement in mitigating face threat

The impact of politeness and relationship on perceived quality of advice about a problem

The Impact of Politeness and Relationship on Perceived Quality of Advice About a Problem

Content-based resources for giving face sensitive advice in troubles talk episodes

'You just don't have the evidence' : an analysis of claims and evidence in Deborah Tannen's "You just don't understand"

The Normative Context of Advice as Social Support

Constituting relationships in talk : a taxonomy of speech events in social and personal relationships

Constituting Relationships in Talk: A Taxonomy of Speech Events in Social and Personal Relationships

Modes of connecting through communication : discourse, relationships, technology, and ideology