Investigates how perceptions shape an argument (between friends) and vice versa. Shows the functions of perceptual agreement, perceptual disagreement, and perceptual understanding. (SR)

Responds to several essays in the same journal issue. Suggests distinct yet equally important roles of theory and lived experience, concepts, and materiality in speech communication research. Argues for an engaged scholarly attitude that views the self as relational, others' accounts as valid, research as self-critical, and judgment as a…

Investigates the role that ethos takes in the scientific papers of American glacial geologists. Analyzes the rhetorical strategies of five articles spanning the time period from 1839-1988. Discovers a coherent evolution of rhetorical strategies over this time period. (HB)

Comments on the attempt to construct a coherent intellectual viewpoint to span the disparate projects of interpersonal and mass communication research. Considers how the discipline of communication can construct functional representations of itself despite diversity. (SR)

Discusses the lack of academic legitimacy enjoyed by mass media research in Europe, in particular. Attributes the problem in part to the specialism of the discipline and to the normative dimension of European research. (SR)

Examines supervisory communication patterns used to indicate immediacy toward subordinates. Notes that data were qualitatively obtained from MBA students who participated in focus group interview sessions. Reveals and discusses 11 immediacy categories. (SR)

Investigates the behavioral manifestations of stereotype-based expectancies. Finds that undergraduate students who went into a cross-cultural interaction with a relatively developed, neutral preconception about someone from another culture behaved different verbally than those who entered an interaction with minimal preconceptions. (SR)

Describes how interactive hand gestures made during conversation help maintain the conversation as a social system. Relates the methods and results of three experiments designed to test this theory. Finds that interactive gestures maintain involvement with the interlocutor without interrupting the flow of conversation. (HB)

Explores the effects of Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) on small group communication and decision-making processes. Finds that comparing GDSS, manual, and baseline conditions enables separation of effects resulting from procedural structures from those resulting from computerization. Results support some aspects of the research model and…

Expands the definition of supportive communication ties and examines the relationship of communication network roles to job stress and burnout in public elementary schools. Finds that isolates report significantly less stress than linkers, group members, and dyads and significantly less burnout than linkers and dyads. (SR)

Focuses on gendered modes of collaboration in a chemical engineering design course. Identifies three modes of collaboration (dialogic, asymmetrical, and hierarchical) and suggests that the first two are liberating, whereas the third is oppressive. Illustrates these modes by describing the collaborative interaction of two groups of students. (SR)

Employs a dramatistic system based on the critical frameworks of Kenneth Burke and Northrop Frye to analyze 903 prime-time network television series. Classifies series as ironic, mimetic, leader-centered, romantic, or mythical. Concludes that over the period from 1974-91, series went from individualism, to idealism and authority, to authority…

Reviews the scholarly literature in cross-cultural business communication and discusses its shortcomings. Demonstrates the limitations of the Western, linear paradigms and expounds upon some inadequately researched and unresolved important questions. Develops 10 testable hypotheses for the 1990s. Advocates developing new paradigms and concept…

Examines the close formal relationship between the Renaissance rhetoric of letter-writing and the common law system of "writs." Traces a forensic urge reflected in structural and stylistic preferences of two letter-writing exemplars. Compares the graphic form of instructional aids in both systems to illustrate methods for examining their…

Explores a model of supervisors' communication behavior from the subordinate's perspective. Tests a hypotheses about which perceived supervisory styles are associated with the least and the most subordinates' satisfaction and organizational commitment. Finds that verbal aggressiveness is especially potent in explaining variability in satisfaction…