Subjects asked to be brief tended to use messages concerned with the exchange of information more than messages dealing with rate of communication, judgments, and feedback. These subjects also used higher percentages of nouns and adjectives and lower percentages of pronouns, verbs, prepositions, and articles than unrestricted subjects. (Author/RL)

Offers data in support of providing business administration students with dictation training. (RL)

Reports on different ways of describing organizations in terms of the interactions which take place among members, and attempts to differentiate and describe interactions in terms of the type of content most frequently discussed. (JMF)

Compares 14 instruments measuring social-communicative anxiety and concludes that virtually every measure was significantly and strongly associated with most other measures and most reflected the same general construct. (JMF)

The recorded conversations of 40 preschool children in small groups were analyzed for interruptions, overlaps, lapses, and gaps. Significant differences were found between heterogeneous and homogeneous groups for interruptions, with boys interrupting girls at a two to one ratio. (Author/RL)

Examines women's political persuading between 1964 and 1984. Draws data from existing surveys done during Presidential election campaigns. Finds women's political persuading increased significantly during these years but lagged behind men's. Explores antecedents of women's political persuading represented in two constructs, access and competence.…

Applies critical theory to the workforce's culture, language, and symbols, providing insight into a pattern of power agendas in the deep structural meaning that determines which issues will be open for debate and which are not. Argues that students must be taught to understand the distortion of communication to impose power and to respond to its…

Argues that news media interest on the topics of feminine images of God and female sexuality expressed in worship gives a public airing to otherwise marginally supported views and interests, thus allowing them to achieve a wider hearing, yet also exacerbating the increasing polarization between liberal and conservative factions of religious…

Finds that two strategies led to significantly higher scores on a final exam in a communication course: reviewing the concepts delineated on the study guide, and silent reading of class notes. Finds in a second study that student motivation was positively related to public-speaking competence, but not to the demonstration of communication…

Finds that the secondary-school textbook vision of society is homogenized and sanitized to reduce the risk of controversy. Reveals three domains of control that influence textbook visual content: industrial (how the image world of a textbook is created); commercial (marketing pressures); and social (interest groups that influence the visual…

Finds that student Groupware users are generally satisfied with member contributions and group output but are less satisfied with software-supported, decision-making processes. Suggests that Groupware is a powerful communication tool for support of work groups but that it may not in itself solve the basic problems of getting people to work…

Uses concertive control theory to examine why members and workers identify so strongly with the Grameen ("rural") Bank, how the organization offers opportunities for empowerment, and how control systems operate within the bank account for its success. Examines how identification with the Grameen influences member and worker evaluation of…

Explores how tendencies to dichotomize women's and men's behavior according to expected roles, and modes of researching gendered communication, have led to linking and privileging men's modes of communication in the professional arena and women's modes of communication in intimate relationships. Discusses challenges and responsibilities…

Demonstrates that many out-of-treatment drug users in an HIV-prevention research project are media consumers. Shows that project participants who recalled seeing or hearing media interventions reported greater levels of positive behavior change than participants who did not recall such messages. Suggests coordination of mass-mediated public health…

States that recent research advanced a causal model explaining the teacher immediacy/student learning relationship by positing the mediational effects of students' state motivation to learn. Argues for an alternative model which posits that affective learning is the central causal mediator. Tests the model with 224 students evaluating their…