Analyzed the consistency of debate judges' philosophy and ballot statements. Found that their debating philosophies accurately reflect the criteria they use to decide debates. (PD)

Describes the field of speech communication from a social scientific point of view as a discipline devoted to study, research, and application. (PD)

Critically examines articles by Goodall and Phillips (EJ 246 871 and 254 905). Argues that science is a part of a critical approach to knowledge and that attempts to divorce science from criticism mystify the reader by misidentifying issues facing the emerging social science of communication. (PD)

Studied the effects of the February 20, 1980, debate involving seven Republican candidates. Results strongly suggest that watching a televised debate early in the presidential primary season can increase respondents' interest in, and knowledge about, the campaign. (PD)

Reviews Illich's works. Suggests that his later ideas--particularly those about the role of language and the media in the creation of needs--deserve to be recognized by scholars studying communication and the mass media. (PD)

Surveyed the effect of familial interpersonal communication on women's feelings of parental and marital role satisfaction. Found that the women in this sample-- primarily college-educated--were more satisfied when they perceived that their ability to be effective in carrying out family role responsibilities exceeded the role expectation…

Results established, among other findings, that people persevere in their beliefs because (1) they generate explanatory schemata providing reasons for presumed empirical occurrences; and (2) once developed, these abstract, explanatory scripts become independent of the data originally giving rise to them. Also discussed implications of cognitive…

Describes a study that was designed to identify specific nonverbal behaviors that influence interviewer judgment. (HOD)

Describes a communication research course which includes instruction in the awareness of media distortions of behavioral science research. (PD)

Reports two studies demonstrating the ability of nonverbal contextual cues to act as retrieval mechanisms for co-occurring language. Suggests that visual contextual cues, such as speech primacy and motor primacy gestures, can access linguistic target information. Motor primacy cues are shown to act as stronger retrieval cues. (JMF)

Examined strategies used by infants when listener feedback indicated that their requests were not understood. Concluded that children in the early stages of language development have acquired at least rudimentary knowledge of appropriate conversational behavior. (Author/DB)

Uses a multisystems theory of organizational communication and a coorientation paradigm to conceptualize which employees of an organization will achieve the highest level of accuracy in communication with an external public. Uses data from a study of a large business firm to test the conceptualization. (JMF)

Examines the development and use of personal idioms within intimate relationships. Characterizes the idioms by function and analyzes them by private or external orientation, as well as verbal and nonverbal mode of presentation. (JMF)

Explores the diverse forms and motives of the conversational frame in public address. Argues that, by framing their remarks and transactions with their listeners as conversational, orators may attempt to reconstruct or seem to reconstruct speaker-audience relationships and to position themselves and their audiences within networks of reciprocal…

Suggests a new academic perspective for investigating the nature of mass-mediated public controversies based on Stuart Hall's theory of articulation. This theory is appropriated to help identify the empowering associations made between the individuals and groups participating in the 1993 controversy over the embattled television program "NYPD…