Reports results of a survey of speech communication departments that profiles the intercultural communication course: assignments, teaching methods, instructor qualifications, course content, text, etc. (PD)

Analysis of characteristics within a taxonomy of skills shows that people's conceptions of "communicative competence" are organized in a manner most conducive to their use as the basis for competence evaluation. (PD)

Investigated the reasons children (ages three through eight) give in supplication situations. Findings clearly demonstrate the development of reason-giving strategies in children. (PD)

Using a communication rules perspective, the study first describes group cultures of two work groups within a large organization, then reports group members' evaluations of the descriptions based on their groups' operative communication rules. (JW)

Discusses lack of integration between communication and educational technology research, and argues that theory and research must be reciprocal, that media research efforts will continue to produce limited observations without acknowledgement of commonality with communication, and that findings of previous media research need to be integrated…

Twenty students participated in this study in which white lies were collected and coded for analysis. Overall, findings confirm previous findings that lies are often used to cope with difficulties in unequal power relationships. (PD)

Tested the effectiveness of interactive cable television in disseminating new teaching ideas among elementary school teachers. Found an increase in the diversity of new ideas within word groups, but the increase was regulated by the group's interpersonal communication or "intermediation." Discusses conditions under which communication…

Results show that a basic course in speech communication (1) produced significant reduction in a students' communication apprehension scores; (2) yielded more positiveness about self-disclosure; and (3) reduced discrepancies between self-concepts and ideal self-concepts. (PD)

Concluded that the videotape recorder could be used effectively as an instructional feedback tool without fear of serious negative effects on speaker performance or on the emotional condition of students. (PD)

For those researchers who are also concerned with the quality of their teaching, this article describes a procedure for incorporating students as part of a research team and illustrates this procedure with a study designed to analyze conflict in interpersonal relationships. (PD)

Surveys communications theory and discusses its application to educational organizations. Topics examined include definitions of communication, the evolution of communication models, concepts of language and semantics, interpersonal communication, and organizational communication. Finally, analytic techniques and conceptual frameworks are…

The unexpected result of this study was that, of the subjects who scored high in complexity, more were categorized as undifferentiated as contrasted with androgynous, masculine, or feminine. (PD)

Investigated possible differences in seating preferences due to gender. Found, among other results, that males and females preferred different seating patterns when interacting with males in a task-oriented setting. Discusses results in terms of communication functions: defining intimacy, creating gender roles, and allocating status within…

Results indicate that a tremendous similarity exists between the significant traits found in this study and those reported in 1977-78 by Kramer (EJ 193 886). Speech stereotypes accorded the sexes appear not to have abated. (PD)

This study did not support the following hypothesis: more sexually-oriented jokes will reflect a sexist bias against women than against men. Instead, the findings indicate that joke-tellers of both sexes were more likely to select sexual jokes that discriminated against males. (PD)