Challenges the intellectual separation of interpersonal and mass media communication, arguing that this division rests primarily on grounds of historical convenience and university politics. Discusses the consequences of this dichotomy and suggests ways of encouraging intellectual exchange between the two subdisciplines. (MM)

Examines communicative responses to the highly argumentative person. Finds that the adversary's use of verbal aggression provokes male subjects to be more verbally aggressive, but stimulates female subjects to be more argumentative. (RAE)

Analyzes managers' responses to employee event accounts to explore how managers ascribe meaning to employees' conduct. Suggests that accounts are assessed against a background of prior problematic events, accounts, and evaluations. (RAE)

Identifies and describes two argumentative strategies AIDS activists use to claim the authority and ability to speak issues surrounding AIDS research: "redefinition" and "translation." Notes that both strategies revitalize the public sphere as a site of decision making about controversial issues. (SR)

Provides an examination of management and employee values as influential for organizational rule formation. Demonstrates that management values are directly related to employee values but indirectly influence the evolution of organization rules. Supports a view of rule emergence based on management and employee values. (HB)

Examines the impact of perceived parental deception regarding impending divorce on subsequent communication satisfaction with parents and self-esteem. Finds that respondents (131 students from 200 intact families) who felt deceived reported lower levels of communication satisfaction than those who had not felt deceived, and that self-esteem was…

Explores the dilemma of teenagers, who often have nowhere to go except outdoor public places, where they often come into conflict with other groups. Describes how teenagers use public spaces in their local environments to create meaning and context in their existence. Indicates which places they use, what characterizes these places, and how…

Analyzes communication apprehension, as operationalized in the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension, as an example that questions the boundaries of business communications and may constitute a banner for it. Examines the application of the report to a specific context. (HB)

Offers a brief overview of V. Turner's syntactic and semantic framework for analyzing pilgrimage social drama. Uses this framework to examine the structure of the JFK assassination anniversary news stories and specials, as well as the fixed symbols which mark the pilgrimage routes from beginning to end. Discusses the individual, societal, and…

Exhibits the strength and flexibility of science as a rhetorical enterprise via a rhetorical analysis of cold fusion which reveals science under considerable stress. Assumes the continuing viability of classical rhetoric as an explanation for the persuasiveness of texts, while acknowledging the need to reexamine its central concepts. (SR)

Explores how influential works of one culture are adapted to the needs, circumstances and thought patterns of another. Analyzes as a case study Yan Fu's "Heavenly Evolution," a rhetorical translation of Thomas Huxley's "Evolution and Ethics," whose publication resulted in a rapid spread of a version of Darwinism in Confucian…

Presents an analysis of the organizational culture at Olivet College in Michigan. Discusses the legacy, roots, and history of the institution; the recent organizational history; and the changing nature of the organization at the time of a racial conflict in the spring of 1992 that gained both state and national attention. (SR)

Explores the history of public relations education in the Middle East. Examines survey research on the United Arab Emirates public relations practice. Details the process of establishing a public relations degree program at the United Arab Emirates University and selection of a curricular model. Examines the status of women in Emirati culture and…

Focuses on the way entities are introduced into discourse, how they are referred to again later, and what motivates speakers to choose particular anaphora to manage reference at a given point in a narrative. Compares anaphoric patterns in English and Mandarin narratives. (HB)

Examines how patients' perceptions of their physicians' communicator styles were related to patient satisfaction. Identifies eight communicator styles and six dimensions of patient satisfaction. Concludes that most significant relationships were nonlinear and that different styles were related to different types of satisfaction. Discusses…