Compares United States and Japanese cultures in terms of incidence and management of face-threatening predicaments perpetuated by others. Finds United States citizens more likely than Japanese citizens to employ humor, accounts, and aggression and Japanese more likely to employ apology and remediation. (NH)

Analyzes Herbert C. Hoover's translation of the "De Re Metallica" in the context of the 1922 Mine Strikes. Claims Hoover's interest in Agricola's "intellectual achievements" may have been more than technical. Demonstrates how technical documents reflect political ideologies. (NH)

Maintains that to study communication is to make arguments about the economic logic and cultural forms of social development. Discusses why the study of communication as a social force has converged at many points on an encompassing critique of contemporary capitalism. Maintains that the literature of social history will be of prime relevance in…

Offers a review of Latin American scholarly research on communication processes from the 1940s to the early 1990s. Notes international interest in this research and the new challenges faced by it. (SR)

Analyzes and critiques Ernest L. Boyer's book, "Scholarship Reconsidered," particularly regarding its implications for the field of communication instruction. Identifies the immediate impact of Boyer's book for the disciplines of communication. Outlines an agenda for communication disciplines based on Boyer's findings. (HB)

Applies theoretical principles of risk perception and communication (from various psychological, social, political, and cultural dynamics) to a sample risk communication on nuclear energy to determine realistic expectations for persuasive risk communications. Stresses that rhetorical researchers need to explore and test the extent to which written…

Explores heritage museums as sites of cultural production in terms of the distinction drawn by historians between "memory" and "history," denoting fundamentally opposed orientations toward the past. Examines the discursive practices of museum guides in Israeli settlement museums, and suggests a more nuanced view of the…

Considers, in a special issue on the topic, criteria for the admissibility of evidence and how methodology affects what is considered to be evidence. Discusses evidential standards in rhetorical criticism--asking whether the data are is pertinent to one's critical perspective, relevant to the claim, the best available data, and what politics are…

Considers, in a special issue on the topic, criteria for the admissibility of evidence in communication research and how methodology affects what is considered to be evidence. Suggests four principles of rigor which should be used to judge the admissibility of "textual" (i.e., qualitative) evidence. (SR)

Discusses (in a special issue on the topic of criteria for the admissibility of evidence) conversation analysis (CA): its basic concerns and commitments, its impatience with discussions about evidence rather than inspecting actual data, and selected notable impacts and debatable issues engendered by CA. (SR)

Considers teachers' research into adult/pupil dialog. Questions the way teachers converse with students. Asks how teachers listen to what children say and how teachers reciprocate. Studies language facility as an age-related phenomenon and considers whether conversation is led and developed in linguistic context by the adult. (HB)

Examines graffiti created by students in "film school" as an organizational document. Finds themes related to alienation and the discourse that counters the sources of that alienation. Shows how the humorous communicative style of graffiti creates tension among cultural meanings that mediates between alienation and liberation. (SR)

Reviews moments in the history of human factors that are especially relevant to the field of technical communications. Discusses human factors research that is applicable to technical communications. Focuses on qualitative usability research, minimalism, and human activity interface design. (HB)

Provides an in-depth examination of the multiple, often conflicting concerns, that arose as an academic group "did" intellectual discussion. Offers a model of how intellectual discussants generally make attributions about each other. Uses results from the case study to critique context-general communicative theories (attribution,…

Examines physician-patient communication as it relates to expectations that patients and physicians hold for themselves and each other. Determines that dimensions of mutual role expectation were physician as humanistic practitioner, physician authority, patient in the sick role, and patient as consumer. Finds that patients had significantly higher…