Daena J Goldsmith
Biographic Data
| ID | 102110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daena J Goldsmith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daena J |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldsmith |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDSMITH D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1466-0256 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 268 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Social Support, Social Networks, and Health
The Meanings of “Open Communication” Among Couples Coping With a Cardiac Event
The value placed on open communication is an ideology in U.S. American discourse. It has particular urgency among couples coping with a cardiac event, who are often advised that open communication can enhance recovery, bolster individual coping, and sustain relational satisfaction. Our interpretive analysis of 41 interviews with cardiac patients and partners explored the connection between a widespread ideology of openness and varied ways of enac…
Communication and Mental Health
The Communication Monographs Cafe is once again open for business. After stimulating conversations about social justice and public scholarship (Volume 78, Issue 2), about communication and material
Openness and Avoidance in Couples Communicating About Cancer
Open communication and avoidance are fundamental communication processes that have been studied across a range of communication contexts. Couples in which one person has cancer are a theoretically and practically important site for examining openness and avoidance. We review the cancer-related topics that couples find challenging, couples reasons for communicating openly or avoiding talk about cancer-related topics, outcomes of communication, fea…
Dilemmas of talking about lifestyle changes among couples coping with a cardiac event
Communicating Social Support
When stresses and hassles challenge our abilities to cope, we frequently turn to family, friends, and partners for help. Yet social support from close relational partners does not uniformly benefit recipients or their relationships. By probing the communication processes that link enactments of social support to participants' reactions, this book provides new explanations for when and how receiving social support will be evaluated as helpful and …
Social Support and the Management of Uncertainty for People Living With HIV or Aids
People with chronic and acute illnesses experience uncertainty about their prognoses, potential treatments, social relationships, and identity concerns. In a focus group study of people living with HIV or AIDS, we examined how social support may facilitate or interfere with the management of uncertainty about health, identity, and relationships. We found that support from others helps people with HIV or AIDS to manage uncertainty by (a) assisting…
Information Seeking and Avoiding in Health Contexts
Information management is an important component of coping with illness and illness-related uncertainty. Normative theory and research on information seeking and avoiding in health contexts can help explain why some information management activities are more adaptive than others. Challenges and dilemmas of information management include relational demands (e.g., the need to coordinate the behaviors and goals of the participants) and contextual fe…
A Normative Approach to the Study of Uncertainty and Communication
Journal Article A Normative Approach to the Study of Uncertainty and Communication Get access Daena J. Goldsmith Daena J. Goldsmith 1University of Illinois, 244 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2001, Pages 514–533, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2001.tb02894.x Published: 10 January 2006
The impact of politeness and relationship on perceived quality of advice about a problem
Advice is a common but potentially problematic way to respond to someone who is distressed. Politeness theory (Brown & Levinson, 1987) suggests advice threatens a hearer's face and predicts that the speaker-hearer relationship and the use of politeness strategies can mitigate face threat and enhance the effectiveness of advice messages. Students (N=384) read 1 of 16 hypothetical situations that varied in speaker power and closeness of the speaker…
Soliciting advice
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 office 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 adv…
Helpful, Supportive and Sensitive
Several recent studies have sought to identify characteristics of better and worse attempts at support provision; however, there has been little explicit theoretical attention to the ways in which recipients evaluate enacted support. We developed a multidimensional scale to measure these evaluations. Study 1 asked 122 adults to interpret the meaning of three adjectives (helpful, supportive, sensitive) used in previous research. Although the meani…
You Just Don’t Have the Evidence”
This chapter separates fact from fiction in Tannen’s You Just Don’t Understand (1990b), a book widely cited by scholars as an authoritative source for claims about the communicative differences between men and women. The authors determined that Tannen’s claims are treated as factual generalizations based on their outline of claims and evidence in the text, their analysis of citations to the book, and other information within the text. When they t…
Content-Based Resources for Giving Face Sensitive Advice in Troubles Talk Episodes
Advice is a common but potentially face threatening response to a friend or loved one who is upset about a problem. Consequently, it is useful to identify ways a speaker may show regard for face in this kind of episode. This article examines how content accompanying advice may show regard for face. In so doing, the article accounts for sources of face threat and resources for face work that are overlooked in Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness…
Sex Differences and Similarities in the Communication of Social Support
A popular view holds that men and women differ in the types of social support they provide to distressed others: women provide emotional support and empathy while men offer instrumental support or try to minimize the importance of problems. Despite the prevalence of this view, there is limited evidence to support it. The present study sought to empirically assess the merit of this view. A total of 119 college students responded to seven situation…
The Normative Context of Advice as Social Support
Much of the existing research on social support overlooks the communicative processes that link supportive acts to beneficial effects. The present study represents an alternative approach: The authors document the multiple goals and implications of advice and the situational, conversational, and cultural context far the evaluation of advice among some White, middle-class, U.S. Americans. On the basis of observation of 112 advice episodes and inte…
Constituting Relationships in Talk A Taxonomy of Speech Events in Social and Personal Relationships
In a series of four studies, a descriptive taxonomy of dyadic speech events in everyday relating was developed and employed to explore the constitutive functions of interpersonal communication. Twenty-nine speech events were identified and replicated through a variety of multi-method procedures, including unstructured and structured diary records, judgment sorting tasks, and semantic-differential rating scaks. Everyday relating appears to be domi…
The Communicative Microdynamics of Support
Managing Conflicting Goals in Supportive Interaction
Supportive interactions often pose conflicting goals: Speakers want to give or receive support, simultaneously conveying and receiving acceptance and preserving the autonomy of both parties. Previous research on the presence or absence of supportive communication has overlooked how support is conveyed and how some message characteristics accomplish multiple goals. By highlighting these multiple goals, politeness theory integrates previous researc…
Gossip from the native's point of view
1989). Gossip from the native's point of view: A comparative analysis. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 23, No. 1-4, pp. 163-193
The Normative Context of Advice as Social Support
Much of the existing research on social support overlooks the communicative processes that link supportive acts to beneficial effects. The present study represents an alternative approach: The authors document the multiple goals and implications of advice and the situational, conversational, and cultural context far the evaluation of advice among some White, middle-class, U.S. Americans. On the basis of observation of 112 advice episodes and inte…
Constituting Relationships in Talk A Taxonomy of Speech Events in Social and Personal Relationships
In a series of four studies, a descriptive taxonomy of dyadic speech events in everyday relating was developed and employed to explore the constitutive functions of interpersonal communication. Twenty-nine speech events were identified and replicated through a variety of multi-method procedures, including unstructured and structured diary records, judgment sorting tasks, and semantic-differential rating scaks. Everyday relating appears to be domi…
Helpful, Supportive and Sensitive
Several recent studies have sought to identify characteristics of better and worse attempts at support provision; however, there has been little explicit theoretical attention to the ways in which recipients evaluate enacted support. We developed a multidimensional scale to measure these evaluations. Study 1 asked 122 adults to interpret the meaning of three adjectives (helpful, supportive, sensitive) used in previous research. Although the meani…
Sex Differences and Similarities in the Communication of Social Support
A popular view holds that men and women differ in the types of social support they provide to distressed others: women provide emotional support and empathy while men offer instrumental support or try to minimize the importance of problems. Despite the prevalence of this view, there is limited evidence to support it. The present study sought to empirically assess the merit of this view. A total of 119 college students responded to seven situation…
Soliciting advice
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 office 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 adv…
Dilemmas of talking about lifestyle changes among couples coping with a cardiac event
Content-Based Resources for Giving Face Sensitive Advice in Troubles Talk Episodes
Advice is a common but potentially face threatening response to a friend or loved one who is upset about a problem. Consequently, it is useful to identify ways a speaker may show regard for face in this kind of episode. This article examines how content accompanying advice may show regard for face. In so doing, the article accounts for sources of face threat and resources for face work that are overlooked in Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness…
Gossip from the native's point of view
1989). Gossip from the native's point of view: A comparative analysis. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 23, No. 1-4, pp. 163-193
Openness and Avoidance in Couples Communicating About Cancer
Open communication and avoidance are fundamental communication processes that have been studied across a range of communication contexts. Couples in which one person has cancer are a theoretically and practically important site for examining openness and avoidance. We review the cancer-related topics that couples find challenging, couples reasons for communicating openly or avoiding talk about cancer-related topics, outcomes of communication, fea…
The Communicative Microdynamics of Support
Communication and Mental Health
The Communication Monographs Cafe is once again open for business. After stimulating conversations about social justice and public scholarship (Volume 78, Issue 2), about communication and material
Gossip from the native's point of view
1989). Gossip from the native's point of view: A comparative analysis. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 23, No. 1-4, pp. 163-193
Managing Conflicting Goals in Supportive Interaction
Supportive interactions often pose conflicting goals: Speakers want to give or receive support, simultaneously conveying and receiving acceptance and preserving the autonomy of both parties. Previous research on the presence or absence of supportive communication has overlooked how support is conveyed and how some message characteristics accomplish multiple goals. By highlighting these multiple goals, politeness theory integrates previous researc…
The Communicative Microdynamics of Support
Constituting Relationships in Talk A Taxonomy of Speech Events in Social and Personal Relationships
In a series of four studies, a descriptive taxonomy of dyadic speech events in everyday relating was developed and employed to explore the constitutive functions of interpersonal communication. Twenty-nine speech events were identified and replicated through a variety of multi-method procedures, including unstructured and structured diary records, judgment sorting tasks, and semantic-differential rating scaks. Everyday relating appears to be domi…
Sex Differences and Similarities in the Communication of Social Support
A popular view holds that men and women differ in the types of social support they provide to distressed others: women provide emotional support and empathy while men offer instrumental support or try to minimize the importance of problems. Despite the prevalence of this view, there is limited evidence to support it. The present study sought to empirically assess the merit of this view. A total of 119 college students responded to seven situation…
The Normative Context of Advice as Social Support
Much of the existing research on social support overlooks the communicative processes that link supportive acts to beneficial effects. The present study represents an alternative approach: The authors document the multiple goals and implications of advice and the situational, conversational, and cultural context far the evaluation of advice among some White, middle-class, U.S. Americans. On the basis of observation of 112 advice episodes and inte…
You Just Don’t Have the Evidence”
This chapter separates fact from fiction in Tannen’s You Just Don’t Understand (1990b), a book widely cited by scholars as an authoritative source for claims about the communicative differences between men and women. The authors determined that Tannen’s claims are treated as factual generalizations based on their outline of claims and evidence in the text, their analysis of citations to the book, and other information within the text. When they t…
Content-Based Resources for Giving Face Sensitive Advice in Troubles Talk Episodes
Advice is a common but potentially face threatening response to a friend or loved one who is upset about a problem. Consequently, it is useful to identify ways a speaker may show regard for face in this kind of episode. This article examines how content accompanying advice may show regard for face. In so doing, the article accounts for sources of face threat and resources for face work that are overlooked in Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness…
The impact of politeness and relationship on perceived quality of advice about a problem
Advice is a common but potentially problematic way to respond to someone who is distressed. Politeness theory (Brown & Levinson, 1987) suggests advice threatens a hearer's face and predicts that the speaker-hearer relationship and the use of politeness strategies can mitigate face threat and enhance the effectiveness of advice messages. Students (N=384) read 1 of 16 hypothetical situations that varied in speaker power and closeness of the speaker…
Soliciting advice
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 office 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 adv…
Helpful, Supportive and Sensitive
Several recent studies have sought to identify characteristics of better and worse attempts at support provision; however, there has been little explicit theoretical attention to the ways in which recipients evaluate enacted support. We developed a multidimensional scale to measure these evaluations. Study 1 asked 122 adults to interpret the meaning of three adjectives (helpful, supportive, sensitive) used in previous research. Although the meani…
A Normative Approach to the Study of Uncertainty and Communication
Journal Article A Normative Approach to the Study of Uncertainty and Communication Get access Daena J. Goldsmith Daena J. Goldsmith 1University of Illinois, 244 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2001, Pages 514–533, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2001.tb02894.x Published: 10 January 2006
Information Seeking and Avoiding in Health Contexts
Information management is an important component of coping with illness and illness-related uncertainty. Normative theory and research on information seeking and avoiding in health contexts can help explain why some information management activities are more adaptive than others. Challenges and dilemmas of information management include relational demands (e.g., the need to coordinate the behaviors and goals of the participants) and contextual fe…
Communicating Social Support
When stresses and hassles challenge our abilities to cope, we frequently turn to family, friends, and partners for help. Yet social support from close relational partners does not uniformly benefit recipients or their relationships. By probing the communication processes that link enactments of social support to participants' reactions, this book provides new explanations for when and how receiving social support will be evaluated as helpful and …
Social Support and the Management of Uncertainty for People Living With HIV or Aids
People with chronic and acute illnesses experience uncertainty about their prognoses, potential treatments, social relationships, and identity concerns. In a focus group study of people living with HIV or AIDS, we examined how social support may facilitate or interfere with the management of uncertainty about health, identity, and relationships. We found that support from others helps people with HIV or AIDS to manage uncertainty by (a) assisting…
Dilemmas of talking about lifestyle changes among couples coping with a cardiac event
Openness and Avoidance in Couples Communicating About Cancer
Open communication and avoidance are fundamental communication processes that have been studied across a range of communication contexts. Couples in which one person has cancer are a theoretically and practically important site for examining openness and avoidance. We review the cancer-related topics that couples find challenging, couples reasons for communicating openly or avoiding talk about cancer-related topics, outcomes of communication, fea…
Communication and Mental Health
The Communication Monographs Cafe is once again open for business. After stimulating conversations about social justice and public scholarship (Volume 78, Issue 2), about communication and material
The Meanings of “Open Communication” Among Couples Coping With a Cardiac Event
The value placed on open communication is an ideology in U.S. American discourse. It has particular urgency among couples coping with a cardiac event, who are often advised that open communication can enhance recovery, bolster individual coping, and sustain relational satisfaction. Our interpretive analysis of 41 interviews with cardiac patients and partners explored the connection between a widespread ideology of openness and varied ways of enac…
Social Support, Social Networks, and Health
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