Investigates the use of "bridging devices" in Lucretia Coffin Mott's "Discourse on Woman" (1849). Shows how Mott uses the Quaker concept of the "inner light" to balance the tension between her conservative cultural milieu and her radical goals. Argues that Mott's rhetoric is instructive for modern feminists who try to…

Suggests that Garrison Keillor's radio monologues create a preferred spectator position that relies on traditionally feminine competencies. Shows that the monologues refuse to privilege vision, dismantle the male gaze, create Lake Wobegon as a feminine setting, and use feminine speaking style. Argues that Keillor provides an opportunity for…

Discusses the way that mass communication education, and in particular the study of journalism, is often disregarded as a legitimate field of scholarly study. Considers the charge that journalism education and media studies exhibit the "crass vocationalism" of a university. (HB)

Discusses barriers to systemic and systematic gender equity in mass communication academic units. Makes suggestions to strengthen that possibility. Discusses issues to be investigated, barriers and resources, approaching and researching, and proactive approaches. (SR)

Shares an alternative (and tested) approach to teaching the small group communication course, which includes discussions of race, gender, and class as important communication variables within various social and interpersonal communication. (SR)

A new method to calculate a spectral harmonics-to-noise (HNR) ratio is presented. The method discriminates between harmonic and noise energy in the magnitude spectrum by means of a comb-filtering operation in the cepstrum domain. HNR is seen to be a useful parameter in the analysis of voice quality. (Author/DB)

An analysis of a corpus of naturally-occurring data reveals that verb phrase preposing serves two functions in discourse: to affirm a speaker's belief in a salient proposition explicitly evoked in the prior discourse, or to suspend a speaker's belief in such a proposition. (29 references) (JL)

The phenomena of overlapping talk is examined. In numerous types of conversational exchanges, people briefly acknowledge the utterance that overlapped their own and then recycle an overlapped utterance and/or introduce a new topic. Three types of objects are illustrated and discussed: an acknowledgment token, an assessment, and a commentary. (four…

Provides some direction for critical communication research into the next decade or two. Concentrates, as a critic of popular culture, on the interpretation of cultural texts. (SR)

Argues not only that critical and traditional social scientific theory have different moral stances but also that they take different approaches to generating knowledge claims. (SR)

Draws on dialogical theory and a critical theory of medical discourse to analyze providers' and patients' interpretations of communication in their relationship with one another, identifying their critical attention or inattention to understanding and social context. (SR)

Argues that, to make itself more central to studies in its own field, American communication should embrace its traditional, albeit now greatly expanded, subject matter (communication), while at the same time abandoning all institutional vestiges of its narrow and long outmoded approaches to the field. (SR)

Attributes the lack of disciplinary status accorded communication to the lack of ontological status granted the very idea of communication in modernity. Argues that the field should deny modernity's bifurcation by asserting that communication is foundational and attempt to forward a unique communication ontology. (SR)

Argues that communication research needs to move toward better integration of observations on the microlevel with systemic generalizations about macrolevel phenomena, and reorient research away from the media behavior and responses of individuals and toward the cumulative consequences of media behavior over time. (SR)

Claims that the field of communication is moving beyond theorizing that treats communication as a process, to what might be called "multiple-process theory." Examines views of message-processing modes and effects, enlarges the scope of inquiry by considering a multiplicity of levels of analysis, and discusses a philosophical orientation compatible…