Reviews articles in this issue, noting that as they describe projects set in different contexts, use diverse methodologies, and test various theoretical presumptions, they all emphasize the inherent interactivity of interpersonal communication. (NH)

Analyzes 319 personal home pages. Finds the typical page had a brief biography, a counter or guest book, and links to other pages but did not contain much personal information. Finds that strategies of self-presentation were employed with the same frequency as they were in interpersonal settings, and gender differences in self-presentation were…

Discusses how the articles in this journal continues a more recent trend toward the consideration of how people negotiate the rules of engagement in relationships that are problematic and somewhat less desirable because the partner's behavior is destructive, or the two partners differ in power, or one's self-presentation is threatened, or someone…

Concludes that spatial information is available to readers only under very specific conditions. Notes that readers told to focus on spatial details had the information available, but that, when told to read for comprehension, spatial information did not become available. Finds also that spatial information was available only when it was required…

Contributes to communication theory and research by adding to a discussion of a computational model called latent semantic analysis (LSA). Argues that LSA does not handle all aspects of language processing, but offers a biologically and psychologically plausible mechanistic explanation of the acquisition, induction, and representation of verbal…

Contributes to scholarship advancing the understanding of human communication by analyzing Susan Dorothea White's painting, "The First Supper," as a subversive postmodern ironic reading of Leonardo Da Vinci's "The Last Supper." Suggests that subversive irony assumes distinctive and complex technical and theoretical…

Contributes to scholarship advancing the understanding of human communication by exploring the concept of controversy within a theoretical framework which does not presume the existence of a public sphere. Suggests an alternative perspective based on the intersection of moments of opportunity and specific sites of discourse. Applies this…

Expands the symbolic resources of the African Burial Ground through a dialogical reading of an essay in the same issue of this journal which offers a rhetorical examination of the controversy surrounding the African Burial Ground. Argues that, post-critique, controversies may be recuperated to recover an expanded sense of coalitional engagement,…

Responds to two articles in the same issue of this journal regarding a controversy over the African Burial Ground in New York City. Raises a third set of questions, arguing that investigations of rhetorics of controversy can also include investigations of the rhetorics of incommensurability, investigating the development of logics and…

Presents the Presidential Address to the 1999 Western States Communication Association Convention. Discusses four opportunities that should not be squandered by communication teachers and scholars as they enter the communication century. (SR)

Contributes to scholarship advancing the understanding of human communication by examining A. Solzhenitsyn's 1978 address "A World Split Apart," and the intense critical reaction that followed. Examines the speech as a Jeremiad. Suggests that even though the speech conforms to the genre's touchstones, it may have been addressed to an…

Responds to an article in the same issue of this journal by considering several issues: whether pure research in business communication is possible; why business communication translates ideas and methods from other disciplines; and responsibilities of translators. Argues that the breadth of this research consortium should not be seen as a…

Uses A. Giddens' theory of structuration as a framework for studying the deeply layered social interactions within the world's largest and most successful group of Alcoholics Anonymous. Finds the organization to be a "disembedding mechanism," in which structures from the global organization are disembedded by the founder, transformed,…

Investigates the relationship between undergraduate students' communication tendencies for sending and receiving verbally aggressive messages with their opinions and feelings about a verbally aggressive television show. Shows that verbally aggressive subjects tended to watch more television weekly, did not report being hurt by receiving verbally…

Finds that undergraduate students more frequently attributed cause of breakups to situational factors than to the other person, and least frequently to self; and that persons who perceive they caused the breakup more frequently perceived they also initiated the breakup. Observes some hypothesized differences in reports for positive-tone,…