Some Intentions are Observable
Some Intentions are Observable
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一些意图是可以观察到的
DOI:
10.1037//0022-0167.34.2.236
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发表时间:
1987
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
W. Stiles
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作者:
W. Stiles
In discussing the relation of therapist intentions to verbal response modes (VRMs), Hill and O'Grady (1985) confused two senses of the term intention--(a) the private purpose of an intervention and (b) the meaning of the utterance, which is on record in the sense that the speaker accepts responsibility for saying it. Hill and O'Grady's list of intentions contained purposes, and they correctly pointed out that researchers' most direct access to these is by the speaker's self-report. VRM codes concern intended meaning, which goes beyond grammatical structure or literal meaning. Nevertheless, VRM codes reflect a level of communication that is intrinsically public in the following sense: The coder is in the same logical position as the communication's intended audience. A confusion in Hill and O'Grady's (1985) article about classifying therapist intentions offers an opportunity to correct a common misconception about verbal process coding. The confusion concerns two senses of the term intention with respect to a therapist's or counselor's verbal intervention--(a) the purpose of the intervention and (b) the meaning of the utterance. Purposes (as I use the term in this article) are subjective, epistemoiogically private, and hence, knowable most directly by report, though the report can be made systematic and thorough by means of tape-assisted recall (Elliott, 1986). Meanings have many levels (Stiles, 1986), but the level that is most commonly studied in research on counselor interventions is inherently public, or on record, in a sense that I will discuss shortly. Roughly, on-record meaning is what the counselor aims to communicate to the client.