The last two decades have seen the development of a number of
models that have proven particularly important in advancing
understanding of message-production processes. Now it appears that
a "second generation" of theories is emerging, one that reflects
considerable conceptual advances over earlier models. "Message
Production: Advances in Communication Theory" focuses on these new
developments in theoretical approaches to verbal and nonverbal
message production. The chapters reflect a number of
characteristics and trends resident in these theories including:
* the nature and source of interaction goals;
* the impact of physiological factors on message behavior;
* the prominence accorded conceptions of goals and planning;
* attempts to apply models of intra-individual processes in
illuminating inter-individual phenomena;
* treatments which involve hybrid intentional/design-stance
approaches; and
* efforts to incorporate physiological constructs and to meld them
with psychological and social terms.
The processes underlying the production of verbal and nonverbal
behaviors are exceedingly complex, so much so that they resist the
development of unified explanatory schemes. The alternative is the
mosaic of emerging theories such as are represented in this book --
each approach according prominence to certain message-production
phenomena while obscuring others, and providing a window on some
portion of the processes that give rise to those phenomena while
remaining mute about other processes. The amalgam of these
disparate treatments, then, becomes the most intellectually
compelling characterization of message-production processes.
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