Finds that communication apprehension has a negative relationship with students' motivation to study but that highly apprehensive students appeared to have a small increase in motivation when exposed to highly verbal immediate teachers. (SR)

Finds that adult males' perceptions of criticism and sarcasm from their fathers significantly and independently contributed to males' perceived confirmation from their fathers. Shows that a causal model using these three variables to predict females' reports of males' relational communication accounted for a significant percentage of variance in…

Finds that M. Motley's measurement (in the Performance/Communication Orientation Scale) of "performance orientation" (the presentation must be perfect and will be closely scrutinized by the audience) was not associated with communication apprehension, public speaking anxiety, nor with public self-consciousness, thus proving to be internally…

Finds that self-efficacy shared a significant relationship with communication apprehension (CA) whereas self-worth did not; high CAs rated themselves lower on self-efficacy and self-worth but were viewed equal to low CAs; and high CAs were rated by interaction partners as less attractive, less trustworthy, and less satisfying to interact with than…

Argues that, if rhetoricians are to make significant strides forward in understanding writing that takes place both within and external to a single workplace culture, they will need to develop a much more expansive, complex, and sophisticated vision of collaboration across multiple organizational cultures. (SR)

Finds that students with participation experience in competitive debate differ from those prior to such experience in the level of argumentativeness (ARG) and verbal aggression (VA). Reveals that policy and nonpolicy formats of debate, and male and female participants, differ significantly in levels of ARG and VA. (SR)

Elaborates on two major aspects of the author's research: the significance of heritage museums as contemporary ideological and performative sites; and the fruitfulness of a "dialogic narration" perspective for the study of sites of cultural representations. Concludes with a brief discussion of the potential role of ethnographic fieldwork. (RS)

Analyzes ambiguity as a factor in Japanese language and culture as they affect technical communication. Presents and interprets results of a survey of Japanese and U.S. aerospace engineers and scientists concerning the kinds of communication products they produce and use and their ideas of what should be taught in technical communication courses.…

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…