“…A substantial corpus of scholarship attempting to describe the constitutive processes of message planning has appeared in the social interaction literature (Berger, 1995, 1997, 2002; Berger & Bell, 1988; Berger & diBattista, 1992; Berger, Karol, & Jordan, 1989; Dillard, Anderson, & Knobloch, 2002; Greene, 1994, 1995, 1997; Greene, O’Hair, Cody, & Yen, 1985; Hample & Dallinger, 1990, 1998; Infante, 1980; Kellermann, 1991, 1995; Kellermann, Broetzmann, Lim, & Kitao, 1989; Kellermann & Lim, 1990; Knowlton & Berger, 1997; Meyer, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1997; Plax, Beatty, & Feingold, 1991; Waldron, 1990; Waldron & Applegate, 1994; Wilson, 1990, 1995). In contrast to message production models crafted by cognitive neuroscientists (e.g., Indefrey & Levelt, 2000), theoretical treatments in the communication literature are almost exclusively cognitivist in perspective.…”