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Download full textAllen, Mike; And Others – 1996
An article on interethnic communication by J. Martin, M. Hecht, and L. Larkey in "Communication Monographs" (1994) suggests some important issues for understanding the potential impact of culture on communication practices--researchers might examine such variations in communication in future research. "Culture" is an ambiguous…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Discourse Communities
Taylor, James R. – 1994
A number of organizational communication analysts have argued that the field is in the midst of a paradigm shift, away from a strictly rational to a more transactional view of organization, but their arguments are not situated in a well-explicated communication theory. This paper argues for the existence of two, mutually exclusive worldviews of…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Communities, Higher Education, Language Role
Arnold, Lorin Basden – 1994
While the debate over the role of metaphor in language, thought, and meaning is not new, in the past decade there has been a move among organizational scholars to use metaphors in critical research. This paper presents a review of one area of the existing literature on metaphor--that dealing primarily with the nonliteral view of metaphors within…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Critical Theory, Cultural Context, Discourse Communities
