Contents: K. Tracy, Introduction: Linking Communicator Goals With Discourse. Part I: Discourse-Goal Linkages in Specific Face-To-Face Encounters.R. Penman, Goals, Games, and Moral Orders: A Paradoxical Case in Court? S. Jacobs, S. Jackson, S. Stearns, B. Hall, Digressions in Argumentative Discourse: Multiple Goals, Standing Concerns, and Implicatures. R. Buttny, J.R. Cohen, The Uses of Goals in Therapy. N. Coupland, J. Coupland, H. Giles, K. Henwood, Intergenerational Talk: Goal Consonance and Intergroup Dissonance. W.K. Rawlins, On Enacting Friendship and Interrogating Discourse. Part II: Theoretical Dilemmas Linking Goals and Discourse.J.B. Bavelas, Some Problems With Linking Goals to Discourse. B.J. O'Keefe, Message Design Logic and the Management of Multiple Goals. J. Mandelbaum, A. Pomerantz, What Drives Social Action? R.E. Sanders, The Two-Way Relationship Between Talk in Social Interactions and Actors' Goals and Plans. G.J. Shepherd, E.W. Rothenbuhler, A Synthetic Perspective on Goals and Discourse. Appendix: Transcript Notation.
