Finds that delivery makes a difference in evaluations of leader charisma. Offers the concept of communicator style as a way to interpret the findings. (SR)

Finds that the initiators of verbal aggression in a discussion were seen by observers as less credible and had fewer valid arguments credited to them, whereas targets of verbal aggression were seen as more credible and were credited with more valid arguments when they reciprocated a level of verbal aggression. (SR)

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)

Argues for reframing and reforging the relationship between text and context. Argues that the silences that modernity's tribute to text invites are grotesque, untenable, and fundamentally anti-intellectual. (SR)

Explores the way the doctrines of would-be academic humanists intersect with the political world of struggle and scarcity. Argues that the academy has become consumed by a debilitating doctrine: the textualizing of politics, where attitude is all, where everything is preliminary and little ever gets done. (SR)

Investigates interactions between political expertise and affect in shaping cognitive strategies people employ in forming reactions to newspaper stories. Finds that, in processing the news articles, political experts produced a greater number of thoughts and a larger share of arguments than did novices. Observes no predicted main effects of…

Explains that semiology provides a broad perspective for analyzing the range of signs, their differences in form and function, along with the relative efficiency of different signs for different purposes and situations. Applies some general semiological notions to the printed page. (SR)

Traces the evolution of the enduring rhetorical genre of apologia from the Greek period to the present. Argues that apologia has undergone significant changes in form because its function has changed throughout history, producing five "subgenres." Examines implications for the continued feasibility of apologia, as well as the critical…

Suggests that researchers studying electronic mail should consider the effects of variables of form (which include both specific technological designs and the diversity of documents which can be transmitted) and think of e-mail from a broad perspective: as an environment in which a diverse range of writing and research practices can be exercised…

Supports the claim that Communication Analysis research is as equally applicable to the analysis of speech exchange in formal or institutional settings as in natural conversation. The setting under consideration is that which has come to characterize the conclusion of sports competitions--the offer of compliments to the winner and commiserations…

Addresses five questions that must be considered by business communication researchers if the results of surveys are to be significant and useful: What do the researches want to know? About whom do they want to know it? How should the questions be worded? How should appropriate and adequate responses be elicited? and How are the results to be…

Presents a dialog between two communication scholars on communication as an academic discipline. Discusses whether communication is a discipline, the legacy of Wilbur Schramm, and specialization and diversity within the field. (SR)

Notes important discrepancies between the metaphor of relationship management and how public relations models are conceptualized and measured. Argues that public relations models need to be measured at the relational level, rather than being aggregated across publics and relational stages. Argues that an adequate normative theory of organizational…

Determines the level of importance of communication skills for academic and civil service administrators in an academic setting. Finds that communication activities dominate the "world of work" of academic and civil service administrators in academic settings. (SR)

Finds that concern for following social rules induces self-deprecation when college undergraduates experienced conflict in roommate relationships. Reveals that the relationship between concern for following social rules and wanting to appear rational in a conflict-related discussion does not depend on intended partner. (SR)