C.M. Condit (1986) has pointed out that audiences regard characterizations as the most salient feature of any text. The power of identification or "the result of all the components in the rhetorical act" (K. Burke, 1945, 1950) is compelling. The power generated by viewers' responses to character-centered films can be harnessed in the…

A study examined students' perceptions of nonverbal cues as they affected the listening process during interviews with someone from a culture outside of the United States. Subjects were 129 American students in a senior level cross cultural communication course at a midwestern state university; they each interviewed an international person…

Recently, training efforts have been undertaken to reduce the negative outcomes associated with increased verbal aggressiveness and accentuate the positive outcomes associated with increased argumentativeness within adolescent populations. This paper presents both positive and negative aspects of assessing aggressive communication predispositions…

An undergraduate small group communication course in "Great Group Breakdowns" is discussed, in which students wrote case studies describing dysfunction in historical and fictional groups, in groups in which they had personally participated, and in groups found in film and literature. This paper argues that this is a uniquely useful method that…

Identifies two major problems--first, both the formal and informal communication networks are extremely diffuse; and second, the interval from the start of a piece of research until its integration into the archival body of scientific knowledge is long--and presents some suggestions for alleviating them. (Author/JM)

The counselor deepens his therapeutic work by analyzing what happens during the counseling session. Subtle details in the office interactions are used to refer to personality traits and behavioral patterns manifesting themselves in the client's daily life. The counselor must also be sensitive to his own feelings and reactions and employ these as…

Paper is concerned with the problem of research needs for effective communication between people who have up to an eighth grade education and those who have an education from the twelvth grade and beyond. (RK)

Communication is examined as a process generic to and compatible with the evolution of the neurologic substrates, the expression of emotion, and the developmental progression and acquisition of intelligence. (Author)

States some of the problems caused by bureaucracy in urban schools such as institutional complexity and overload, goal displacement, deficiencies in communication and decisionmaking processes, and social and psychological distances between client and institution. (JF)