Examines speech communication as a discipline that addresses questions of "how" things happen across contexts rather than questions of "what" happens within any one context. Highlights the potential this view presents for cooperation between scholars in speech communication and scholars in other disciplines. (JMF)

Describes the structural similarities inherent in musical and linguistic compositions and how they reflect basic human impulses and principles of effective composition. Uses Bach's "Passacaglia" to illustrate the characteristics of good composition. (JMF)

Two experiments were conducted in which same-sex pairs of subjects who were either similar or opposite in self-monitoring conversed for 10 minutes. Conversations were videotaped, and the patterning of speech and gaze was examined. (Author/SS)

Presents a redefinition of the concept of ethical appeal as an appeal that asks an audience for full and careful appraisal of both the meaning and the intent of what is being said. The audience must determine for itself whether or not the appeal should be accepted or rejected. (JMF)

Discusses J. L. Austin's treatment of perlocution and extends it to an analysis of five types of perlocution. Proposes a set of conditions necessary and sufficient for consummation of any perlocutionary act. (JMF)

Changes in the amount of conflicting communication experienced by 30 male students were measured over four years from the age of 20 to 23 years using the Conflicting Communication Scale (Yeomans et al. 1970). (Author/CM)

Faculty offices shared by a department provide a forum for exchange of teaching ideas as well as a preparation area. (Author)

Traces in detail the development of pragmatics and its relationship to semantics. (AM)

Proposes a new theory of "delocutivite," expanding on that of E. Benveniste. (AM)

Argues that (1) Chaim Perelman's philosophy and the New Rhetoric project reflect his Jewish heritage and Talmudic habits of argument; and (2) because Perelmanian philosophy enacts Jewish and Talmudic thought, the New Rhetoric charts a "third way" between Enlightenment metaphysics and the more extreme expressions of postmodernism,…

Explains sharp inconsistencies in Edmund Burke's rhetorical abilities by exploring two distinct conceptions of rhetoric: rhetoric as an instrument of prudential reason and as an existential means of constituting oneself. Examines Burke's private correspondence to show how this struggle between rhetorical prudence and rhetorical heroism generated…

Written and oral information strategies used by two gay groups in the Netherlands serve three functions: dissemination of information about homosexuality; contact--creation of a public presence; and signification--a broader conception of sexuality and gay emancipation. (SK)

Supports the Implicit Rules Model, which suggests that individuals acquire implicit rules that connect request situation schemas to behaviors. Shows how individuals, in two experiments, learned, based on feedback, which behaviors were "correct" for multiple instances, and then, on their own, chose the correct behavior for new instances.…

Applies two fundamental principles of optimalist theory to yield predictions about cluster reduction patterns. (Author/VWL)

Reviews four traditional communication postulates--namely, that communication is interactive, involves encoding, involves the exchange of symbols, and has a fidelity dimension. Finds each to be a contradiction of the popular axiom which states that one cannot not communicate. (MG)