Highlights broad philosophical issues and future areas of research on personal relationships that derive from the author's earlier work. Discusses the dialectics associated with intraindividual, interpersonal, and intergroup dynamics as well as the effect of the physical environment on personal relationships. (RS)

Concentrates on the context, complexity, and consequences as ways of thinking about how research in health communication should be evolving in the twenty-first century. Uses examples from the author's research agenda, and widens the discussion beyond that, knowing that the pressing needs of such research exceed what the author alone hopes to…

Identifies the author's most challenging research puzzles, which revolve around dialectical or paradoxical layering of ideas and methods. Presents an overview of the development of a communication theory of identity. (RS)

Offers a model of the elements and disciplines that contribute to the field of technical communication, and develops from the model a framework for a taxonomy that recognizes differing names for parallel processes. (SR)

Argues that the African-American rhetorical tradition is worthy of more consistent scholarly attention in the field of speech communication. Describes research into localized rhetoric in southern communities (Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963) as a case in point. (SR)

Responds to topics addressed in several essays in the same journal issue. Argues that the concern of these essays is not with method but with an engaged scholarship concerned about the whole rather than some aggrieved part and that they form a bridge between a modernist past and a postmodern condition. (SR)

Responds to topics addressed in several essays in the same journal issue, in particular the possibilities for communication research (and for academia in general) supplied by new ideological vocabularies. Focuses on voice, fragmentation, and the need for diversity. (SR)

Responds to topics addressed in several essays in the same journal issue. Offers thoughts about ideology as alternatives to some of the provocative arguments/positions in those essays. (SR)

Argues that scholars in communication studies, rather than engaging questions about "the field" or "the divide," should instead ask questions about who they are, and who they become, when they engage in certain kinds of communication inquiry--ontological questions about epistemological consequences. (SR)

Argues that scholars from other communication disciplines could learn much from public relations research. Discusses public relations research at the micro level (individual public relations programs), the meso level (managerial), and the macro level (what makes excellent public relations possible). Offers an integrative theory explaining the…

Argues that the discipline of communication has not progressed for two reasons: because scholars talk more to each other than to those outside the field, and because they have not clearly defined what they are about to themselves, their colleagues, their students, and the general public. (SR)

Finds that persons (college students) thwarted in their attempts to provide geographic directions to others reiterated directions with little change in structure but with significant increases in vocal intensity and decreases in speech rate. Confirms the hierarchy hypothesis that individuals modify their message plans to make alterations first…

Proposes viewing journalists as members of an interpretive community (not a profession) united by its shared discourse and collective interpretations of key public events. Applies the frame of the interpretive community to journalistic discourse about two events central for American journalists--Watergate and McCarthyism. (SR)

Finds that exposure to graphic photographs of worms taken from a horror film increased children's enjoyment of the horror movie segment and reduced fear reactions to the scene. Shows that exposure to a live earthworm was effective in reducing fear reactions to the movie only among boys but did alter children's affective reactions to and judgments…

Examines the philosophical and historical context in which Otto Neurath (1882-1945) worked. Examines critically (in the light of descriptive statistics) the principles of his Isotype Picture Language. Tests Neurath's personal credibility and scientific integrity by looking at his contributions to Soviet propaganda in the early 1930s. (SR)