Describes Ohio University's College of Communication, which joins several schools (each with its own director) into a college headed by a dean. Discusses the college's demographics, history, development, advantages, and problems faced. (SR)

Describes the Elliott School of Communication, established in 1989 at Wichita State University by merging the former Departments of Journalism and Speech Communication. Discusses the development of an integrative curriculum, discusses communication education at WSU, and describes the development of partnerships and local support. (SR)

Describes how the Speech Communication Department at the University of Nebraska was targeted for elimination and survived. Addresses why it is necessary for the communication discipline to take an advocacy role, and provides thoughts about how departments can defend themselves from future attacks. (SR)

Shows that processing demand is an incomplete explanation of receiver apprehension because motivation (the desire to process a message) and the expectation that the receiver will have to reproduce some aspect of the message for inspection by others (evaluation) are also important factors in receiver apprehension. (SR)

Adds to an ongoing discussion in this journal about evidence, arguing that the ways communication scholars think about evidentiary criteria constrain and limit the purview of what they study as communication. Offers two observations on evidence that may serve as guides in generating and using evidence. (SR)

This article discusses the relationship between silence and politeness in face-to-face communication, focusing on Brown and Levinson's (1978) theory of politeness that asserts that it is in the mutual self-interest of individuals engaged in conversation not to initiate face threatening acts (FTAs). (29 references) (MDM)

Places (in dialogue form) a discussion of the functions of silence with what purports to be an Eastern attitude, specifically that derived from several Chinese texts. Poses in contrast to the Eastern portion a purportedly Western, didactic discussion. Notes that the ancient question of the relationship of rhetoric and dialectic recurs. (RS)

Probes the reasons college graduates in communication subfields select their first positions. Finds that (1) television/radio specialists had the highest (and speech specialists the lowest) likelihood of getting a position in their field; and (2) graduates ranked "professional growth and development" as the most important selection reason. (SR)

S. Glucksberg and B. Keysar's (1990) class-inclusion view of metaphor understanding does not properly acknowledge metaphor's role in everyday cognition. Metaphor is a powerful scheme in long-term memory by which people make sense of their experiences. Evidence supports tacit conceptual metaphor's role in comprehension of verbal metaphors in…

Examines 19 journals in the "Index to Journals in Communication Studies through 1990" to provide a measure for top scholarship in communication among active administrators in speech communication. Determines the mean, median, and mode number of citations listed in the field of communication. Lists 25 most prolific administrator-scholars and their…

Argues against the "mainstreaming" of adult learners into traditional undergraduate speech communication courses. Discusses some successful adult education programs. Distinguishes andragogy, the teaching of adults, from pedagogy, the teaching of children. Recommends developing adult education programs that are more student centered and…

Explores the role of Connected Speech Processes (CSP) in accounting for sociolinguistically significant dimensions of speech variation, and presents initial findings on the distribution of CSPs in the speech of Australian adolescents. The data were gathered as part of a wider survey of speech of Brisbane school children. (Contains 26 references.)…

Takes up criticisms directed at Jurgen Habermas's conception of the self or moral agency, his assumptions about the generalizability of human interests, and the supposed utopianism of his theory. Argues that in each case more charitable and attractive readings of his position are possible and desirable. (SR)

Explores ethical and legal problems related to the treatment of communication apprehension and avoidance (CAA). Discusses three options for solving those problems: "cease and desist" all treatment programs; create hybrid communication/counseling programs; or create a code of ethics for CAA treatment procedures. (KEH)

Discusses business communication within the organization, with customers and other organizations, with labor and labor organizations, with government agencies, with the community, and with prospective employees. (PRA)