Examines state standards for the certification of secondary school speech communication teachers. Finds significant differences in speech teacher licensing standards among the 50 states, including a wide variety of content, credit hour, and testing criteria. Compares state requirements with model guidelines promulgated by the Speech Communication…

Presents an ethnographic examination of directive sequences in two speech communities, one in the United States and one in Colombia, with emphasis on the distinctive belief systems revealed by directive use. Shows that patterns of results are consistent with the values of Americans and inconsistent with the values of Colombians. Discusses how…

Discusses five major processes of media internationalization in China. Shows that the influence of foreign media culture in China is uneven and is contingent on the strength of ideological control at both the central and local level, as well as on the media's nature, geographical location, and degree of commercialization. (SR)

Studies faculty reactions to diversity enhancement efforts at a large public university. Finds that whites' attitudes were less positive regarding policies relevant to women and minorities than blacks', Hispanics', and Asians' attitudes were. Finds individual race and ethnicity explained differences in attitudes toward diversity programs better…

Surveys U.S. and Mexican managerial attitudes concerning the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) process on the United States. Discusses differences in Mexican and U.S. attitudes concerning NAFTA and a number of socioeconomic concerns. (SR)

Suggests that content analysis can provide answers about the types of messaging content and the longitudinal evolution of specialized codes in instructional computer-mediated communication (CMC). Shows that the uses and gratifications approach provides a perspective to ask questions about user motivations in instructional contexts, as well as the…

Links ethical theories to the management of the product recall of the Perrier Group of America. Argues for a nonsituational theory-based eclectic approach to ethics in public relations to enable public relations practitioners, as strategic communication managers, to respond effectively to potentially unethical organizational actions. (SR)

Finds that differences in the amount that mothers talk to their children are a function of both characteristics of mothers' language use and of their children's conversational participation. Shows that mothers who talked more to their children more frequently produced multiple utterances on a single topic and had children who talked more. (SR)

Discusses media-related changes in Russia, Poland, and Hungary since the 1980s. Reviews current media theories in the United States for their ability to guide research into media processes in these three countries. Finds that much media research has paid insufficient attention to economic forces, international relations, the state, political…

Examines students' summaries of three lectures. Finds that the percentage, but not the number, of propositions correlated positively with the accuracy scores in the summaries. Suggests that analyses of errors, lexical substitutions, discrepancies in grades, and differences in students' scores for the different lectures revealed interesting results…

Compares the original and the current status of procedures documentation, a business communication genre. Advocates changing the perception of what the genre ought to be by looking not only at the end product being created but also at the process that created it. Justifies the shift by the changing global environment for effective management…

Analyzes John Corigliano's "Symphony No. 1" to explicate its communicative value for the AIDS crisis. Contends that music without lyrics can serve as an argument by functioning as a form of enthymeme. Discusses enthymeme's relevance to music, identifies the premises established in Corigliano's work and analyzes how they are developed in…

Offers a broad overview of communication media in Latin America and of the relationship between the state, the media, and society. Introduces articles in this issue which focus on communication media in Latin America. (SR)

Explores the possibility of collaborative research undertaken by professors in conjunction with their undergraduate students. Provides various institutional strategies by which student-faculty collaborative research might be encouraged. (HB)

Surveys training directors of Fortune 500 corporations to determine the content and nature of listening training offered to employees. Discusses types of listening instruction, personnel receiving listening training, length of listening training, and backgrounds of listening trainers. (KEH)