Uses a case study and an interactionist perspective to explore the way in which community service draws together power elites in a community's communications network, provides a context for peer evaluation, and is an effective means of maintaining internal surveillance. (SR)

Uses social exchange theory to explore communication in the adjustment process of transferees during the first three months at new locations. Develops descriptions of the process by which transferees learn their roles. Explores the impact of feedback and communication relationships on adjustment and the impact of social support as a buffer against…

Applies the Instructional Communication Model to an analysis of student ratings of instruction. Finds that the best combined set of items for estimating global instructor effectiveness contained global course quality as the primary contributor. Discusses findings in terms of the model of instructional communication. (RS)

Investigates the relationship between individual differences in "arousability" and the tendency for college students to report enduring negative reactions from exposure to frightening media. Finds that arousability was related to both enduring and immediate fright reactions. Notes that physiological indicators were associated with arousability for…

Reviews gender scholarship most pertinent to professional communication as well as recent articles on professional communication that contribute to gender scholarship. Topics include gender and writing, reading, speaking language choice, visual communication, collaboration, content analysis, management, history and case studies. (NH)

Analyzes the interpreter's role in international business ventures. Presents descriptive models of the role, highlights major implications executives should consider before hiring an interpreter, and poses research questions based on these implications. (SR)

Employs a systems perspective to assess progress in incorporating the concept of feedback into a coherent theory of communication in social interaction. Assesses fundamental differences between definitions of feedback as an object and as a process. Identifies conceptual, theoretical, and empirical treatments associated with those definitions.…

Systematizes the fragmented approaches to framing in political communication and integrates them into a comprehensive model. Classifies previous approaches to framing research along two dimensions: media frames versus audience frames; and the way frames are operationalized (independent variable or dependent variable). Identifies four key processes…

Presents information obtained from department heads of 148 communication departments in four-year colleges and universities across the United States. Examines data related to departments' current, expected, and desired course offerings. Suggests that communication departments are making moderate efforts to cover a broad range of…

Examines health-oriented conversations in informal, interpersonal networks. Investigates the network structure, nature of relationships, contents of interactions, and impact of support manifested in a "stay-at-home" mothers' toddlers' play group. Identifies members' roles, and characteristics of opinion leaders, and includes anecdotal…

Considers how communication scholars who write a large number of articles remains the same, despite changes to ranking methods. Finds that there is a substantial similarity between authors who are frequently cited by others and the number of articles that have been published by these authors. Discusses how the most frequently published authors of…

Describes briefly the author's research (contributing to scholarship on successful language practices in organizations) examining the conflicts, and specifically the discursive methods of solving these conflicts, faced by individuals within an organization as they negotiate competing demands. Offers a new tool (called Bracketing, Ranking, and…

Contributes to scholarship on communicative processes in employment interviewing and on cultural diversity. Discusses communication processes aligned with nondominant group membership. Presents a picture of the performance burdens that members of traditionally underrepresented groups may experience when attempting to meet traditional expectations…

Analyzes an annual executive letter written by the director of a small New Zealand business which focuses on problems. Shows how these problems serve three functions: to distract attention from more serious issues, to undermine the credibility of potential challengers, and to provide a context in which the writer can present himself and company…

Finds that U.S. managers writing letters of complaint used a direct organizational pattern and tended to state the main idea or problem first before sharing explanatory details, whereas the standard Korean pattern (written by Korean managers for whom English is a second language) was indirect and tended to delay the reader's discovery of the main…