Complements review in previous volume concerning Australian literacy (in first- and second-language) initiatives that drew on systemic functional linguistics, highlights ongoing research within the same theoretical framework, and focuses on the question of modeling context in educational linguistics. The discussion includes modeling context as…

Argues that the study of media economics should stand at the core of the field of communication. Describes central concerns to be addressed, such as economic influence and effect, economic structure and conduct, and analysis of performance. (SR)

Selected results from an ethnographic study of communication in an American Pacific Northwest church community are presented. The case illustrates patterns in the selection of linguistic options of personal address and that personal address choice is influenced by such factors as context, public/private meanings, and interlocutor beliefs.…

Investigates minority representation in undergraduate communications programs in relation to other liberal arts programs, at research and nonresearch institutions, in different regions, and at urban and nonurban institutions. Finds that mass communication falls short in the integrative effort in that it has a smaller representation of minorities…

Reviews electronic language data oriented specifically toward linguistic and language research, including machine-readable versions of established dictionaries; text databases, including newspapers and books; speech databases with phonetic/orthographic transcriptions; and bulletin boards and news groups available over computer networks. (17…

Identifies reasons for the scarcity of communication theories. Observes that early interdisciplinary forays did not result in communication theories but contributed to a view of communication as an applied social science. Argues that speech and journalism departments' appropriation of communication research has limited theoretical development.…

Presents a 140-item annotated bibliography of books, articles, and conference papers on teaching ethics in professional writing. Presents 21 items focusing on theory, 99 items focusing on teaching, 16 items with a teacher focus, and 5 items on related bibliographies. (SR)

Reports on an experiment concerning the effects of time and communication channel (asynchronous computer conferencing versus face-to-face meetings) on the development of interpersonal impressions. Finds that computer-mediated groups gradually increase in impression development to a level approaching that of face-to-face groups. (NH)

Discusses crises of legitimacy, theory, curricula, and power in the field of communication in the United States. (SR)

Narrates the experiences of one journalism teacher who was criticized by a Japanese student when another student used the word "Jap" in the classroom. Questions the role of instructors in assuring that all language in a classroom is "politically correct." (HB)

Presents a new methodology for studying children's and adults' metalinguistic knowledge of the cohesive, discourse-level properties of spoken language. Studies the abilities of subjects to detect and then to explain discourse repairs in narratives. Considers why the discourse-level functions of the markers are not open to reflection. (HB)

Reviews gender scholarship most pertinent to professional communication as well as recent articles on professional communication that contribute to gender scholarship. Topics include gender and writing, reading, speaking language choice, visual communication, collaboration, content analysis, management, history and case studies. (NH)

Comparison of disfluent conversational utterances of 14 children who stutter and 14 children (mean age of both groups 52 months) who do not stutter found that for both groups, disfluency clusters were typically produced at clause onset and within the most complex linguistic contexts and that they reflect the effects of producing multiple syntactic…

Describes how to use intonation and dialog context to improve the performance of an automatic speech-recognition system. Experiments utilized the DCIEM Maptask corpus, using a separate bigram language model for each type of move and showing that, with the correct move-specific language model for each utterance in the test set, the recognizer's…

Presents information obtained from department heads of 148 communication departments in four-year colleges and universities across the United States. Examines data related to departments' current, expected, and desired course offerings. Suggests that communication departments are making moderate efforts to cover a broad range of…