Focuses on recent critiques of empiricism. Discusses the present state of communication research and theory. Asserts that examining levels of language and explanation helps to solve logical inconsistencies that have appeared to present philosophical problems in the past. (PRA)

Responds to an article in an earlier issue of this journal. Discusses the state of theorizing in the field of organizational communication. (SR)

Challenges an ideology hidden within the history of rhetoric that privileges one form of the art over another--one approach moves outward toward the social world of public affairs, the other inward toward the center of the human soul. Recounts several "moments" in the creation, repression, and eventual recovery of a rhetoric of the…

Replies to Rowland's article (same issue) on Fisher's views of the narrative paradigm. Clarifies the narrative paradigm by discussing three senses in which "narration" can be understood, and by indicating what the narrative paradigm is not. (SR)

Responds to an article in an earlier issue of this journal. Restates the topic as "Why are there so few theories of human communication?" Discusses why there is a lack of theories on the nature of human communication and offers suggestions intended to promote the development of such theories. (SR)

Replies to four responses to an earlier article by the author in this journal on the relative lack of original theory development in the field of communication. (SR)

Continues the process of questioning what is taken for granted in communication research and expanding the views of rhetorical processes. Explores how and where texts are created, and how texts interact with each other, especially in terms of "intertextual interanimation." (RS)

Examines critically two articles in the same issue addressing deceptive messages. Shows one article's data to be inconsistent with the premise that deception derives solely from erroneous "Quality" implicatures. Argues that the conceptual definitions in the other article lack precision and that the proposed set of information dimensions…

Responds to an article appearing in this issue, that critically examines an article (also appearing in this issue) by these authors. Considers how the information management concept in Interpersonal Deception theory is related to Information Management Theory (called Information Manipulation Theory in earlier articles) and addresses criticisms of…

Makes three main points in response to their critics. Suggests multiple methodologies are appropriate for the study of almost any communication phenomenon and that organizational assimilation is akin to or encompasses many issues that have been stated as outside its parameters. Identifies with disagreements in the use of several concepts. (SC)

Proposes an alternative to the patriarchal bias in most traditional rhetorical theories--invitational rhetoric, grounded in the feminist principles of equality, immanent value, and self-determination. Argues that its purpose is to offer an invitation to understanding and that its communicative modes are the offering of perspectives and the…

Responds to an article in an earlier issue of this journal. Argues that, rather than attempting to promote theory construction based on an artificially limited field of communication, an effort should be made to unify the field by assimilating its diversity, and to bridge the broad span between interpersonal communication theory and classical…

Explores the idea of a crisis of representation in the context of organizational communication studies. Suggests that this notion should be the leitmotif for critical organizational theory and research across the next 10 years. (RS)

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…