A case study examined the process of preparing information for publication in an in-house newsletter for a large organization, focusing on the factors determining the amount of autonomy of public relations practitioners as professionals in organizations. The subject of the case study was a communication and advertising department of a "mixed…

A study explored the function of issues management in the decisionmaking process of policy makers and strategic planners as it is practiced in contemporary organizations. A sample of 56 professionals participated in a mail survey. Their accounts of how issues management operated in their organizations were evaluated with the use of descriptive…

A field experiment tested the effects of mediation, message difficulty and gender of message presenter on children's attention to messages. Seventy-seven children, ages 6 weeks to 5 years participated in the study. Children were observed as they watched messages delivered by a person either in real life or on television. Results indicated that…

Based in a stream of community-based health promotion activities rather than a fixed framework of hypothesis testing, the study described in this paper tried to solve the problem of the one-sided communication between Japanese health care providers and receivers by visualizing health-related feelings and concepts for both parties involved in the…

A number of organizational communication analysts have argued that the field is in the midst of a paradigm shift, away from a strictly rational to a more transactional view of organization, but their arguments are not situated in a well-explicated communication theory. This paper argues for the existence of two, mutually exclusive worldviews of…

A study explored the impact on junior high school females of "don't smoke" public service announcements (PSAs) created by two groups of high school females. The study extended the research on relevance and persuasion by utilizing intimate issues, and by exploring the potential for increasing message relevance by using persuasive messages…

The influence of language style and gender on perspectives of leadership potential is a function of the interrelationships among gender, language style, and desirable or relevant characteristics of the type of leader sought. The notion that choice, perceptions, and evaluations of language style are goal-related has been acknowledged in the…

A study examined the interactions of siblings in television families in three popular sitcoms of the 1950s--"Father Knows Best,""Leave it To Beaver," and "Ozzie and Harriet." Nine episodes of each sitcom were videotaped, and the behaviors were coded using a system developed to code sibling behavior in 1980s sitcoms.…

In the highly competitive, racist milieu of the academy, even feminist scholars, anxious to advance their own careers, can be lured into ethnocentric research practices that exploit, rather than honor or illumine, the communication of women of color. Before feminist scholars write about such communication, they should seek to answer questions that…

The purpose of this essay is to consider some of the practical implications of Martin Heideger's view that "Language is the house of Being," for the academic study of cultural transformation and intercultural communication. The paper describes the ontological basis of Heidegger's work, and the inquiry into Being, and contains sections on…

A 1983 bibliography on sex, language, and communication included many studies from the communication literature as well as from psychology, linguistics, sociology, and many other fields. It appeared at the time that the number of studies on the subject was beginning to increase. Reviewers have noted the increasing growth of gender and…

This paper presents an examination of United States presidents' names as symbols. In developing the analysis, the paper: (1) reviews multiple perspectives which suggest that allusions to past presidents (such as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, or Franklin Roosevelt) are significant political symbols; (2) discusses how allusions to past…

Chaos offers educational communications and technology new systems' tools and ideas; i.e., it provides the system with a deterministic "I don't know" state within which new activity patterns can be generated. Previous characterizations and paradigms of systems stated that simple systems behaved in simple ways, complex behaviors implied complex…

This study examined transcripts of 63 mealtime, dyadic interactions of mothers and their children. An earlier investigation of the effects of social class and communicative setting on maternal speech found a significant class difference and within-class variability in the amount of speech mothers directed to their children. There were significant…

This study examines the depictions of organizational life appearing in popular training films. The study argues that little cultural attention has been paid to Human Resource Development (HRD), which has become a multi-billion dollar industry shaping employees' behaviors, knowledge and values. In addition, this study extends the interpretive…