Offers a demographic profile of the typical graduate-student protege and faculty mentor. Outlines 10 communication strategies with which students initiate such a relationship. Finds that students (1) felt their initiation attempts were somewhat ineffective and unduly difficult; (2) report mentors provide primarily psychosocial rather than career…

Replicates and extends the authors' previous research on instructor attire on classroom dynamics. Indicates lesser effects of attire on person perceptions in live interaction as opposed to photographs. Reports that the influence of attire was limited to ratings of instructor extroversion, with no statistically significant interaction between…

Examines how corporate entities use the Web to present themselves as socially responsible citizens and to advance policy positions. Samples randomly "Fortune 500" companies, revealing that, although 90% had Web pages and 82% of the sites addressed a corporate social responsibility issue, few corporations used their pages to monitor…

Presents data from an ethnographic case study that describes how an administrator in a theater organization manipulated language by using the minutes from a board of directors meeting to influence board members to vote to disband the organization. Discusses implications for teachers, researchers, and practitioners of business communication. (SG)

Examines the nature, extent, and rhetorical exploitation of the margins of indeterminacy in aircraft engine development and testing, focusing particularly on the role of technical documents in creating these margins and in the rhetorical transactions that transpired. Suggests the conditions and implications of these rhetorical transactions need to…

Explores the effect of classroom-workplace collaborations on student learning. Explores how classroom-workplace collaborations help to teach professional genres. Examines how they replicate workplace activity and convey features of workplace genres and how they serve as transitional experiences for students. Examines students' reactions to the…

Investigates, using 24 scholarly journals, the typical rate of publishing among student researchers published in communication journals in 1994-1998. Presents a ranking of student researchers in terms of article research productivities. Notes what research journals most student researchers publish their work. Provides averages in both fractional…

Offers an extensive literature review across disciplines and media reports on the potential impact of the English-only movement. Examines how Anglo support for English-only policies limits the use, promotion, and salience of minority languages like Spanish in institutional settings and in the linguistic landscape. Examines language vitality…

Advocates using the construct of voice rather than paradigms, theories, and academic divisions to develop complimentary ways of understanding. Advocates taking inventory of multiple and shifting voices in reviews and critiques of the literature; connecting through exploring shifting concepts and theories; and engaging in joint actions in ways that…

Argues for a rhetorical relationship of gender, language, and power, one that women can have some measure of control over. Argues that gender in the workplace is locally constructed through the micro practices of everyday life. Notes that business educators must be mindful of the assumptions underpinning their work as they research and work in the…

Applies the general frameworks of Politeness Theory and Planning Theory to explain the selection of sexual resistance strategies among undergraduates following both initial and persisting requests. Investigates contingent effects of request directness on characteristics of the resistance message. Tests influence of resister sex on strategy choice.…

Provides a critical ethnographic account of how members of a small design company experienced a work environment riddled with ambiguous communication. States that although management's objective in providing vague goals was to spark creative freedom, employees experienced the environment as paradoxical and constraining. Contends that interplay of…

Investigates whether all three components of performance visualization (education, guided imagery, and modeling) are necessary to help people enhance speech performance and reduce public speaking apprehension. Finds that the education component appears to be unnecessary. Speculates that cognitive processing differences with regard to language and…

Describes research used to develop an original instrument, the Workforce Diversity Questionnaire, to assess interactions in diverse workgroups. States that a set of proposed dimensions was developed theoretically from literature on cultural diversity, discrimination, and intergroup processes. Explains how validity was tested through confirmatory…

Discusses how managers and subordinates in three banks provided information on the frequency, form, and effects of informal upward feedback in their organizations. Finds that managers perceived informal negative upward feedback as more frequent than their subordinates, and that they perceived both positive and negative upward feedback as producing…