Gender trainers must attend carefully to issues of power and resistance. Construing power as property does little to explain complex relations. A better approach is understanding power as action and resistance as a form of exercised power. (SK)

Transformative research should be (1) ethical--with attention to human rights and social justice; (2) emancipatory--contributing to reduction of oppression; (3) empowering--serving marginalized and disadvantaged groups; and (4) holistic--identifying relationships between parts and the whole, micro and macro contexts, local and global issues. (SK)

Discusses the politics of social science research and locates the development of transformative research within debates about postmodernism. Provides an example of a transformative research project highlighting the relationship between power and knowledge. (SK)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research. It is suggested that the method advocated is worthwhile, modifiable for other disciplines, and should be read and discussed by scholars from many fields. (VWL)

Discusses the role of library trustees or board members in public library administrative decisions, examines managerial styles among public library directors, and describes situations that invite the board to micromanage. Sidebar "Success in 10 Steps" suggests ten steps to maintain a balance of power between staff and trustees. (LRW)

Contributes to scholarship on sexual harassment. Finds that men's "power over" standpoint and the related fear of marginalization clash with women's "power with" standpoint and the related fear of physical harm. Argues that managers and researchers need to understand both standpoints to better understand the dynamics of sexual harassment and how…

Contributes to research on speech acts, power, and the negotiation of shared meanings. Argues that a primary off-record purpose of ostensible lies and of ostensible speech acts in general is to assert or affirm a status or power difference between speaker and addressee. Shows how ostensible lies are speech acts that flout the rules governing the…

Analyzes one case of sexual harassment at a university, illustrating how university communities provide conditions under which sexual harassment is naturalized. Illustrates how various discourses shaped knowledge in the public domain, while the voices of women students and feminist discourses on sexual harassment were marginalized or silenced.…

A survey of 214 female university employees found that gender harassment was most frequently experienced, but it was not related to age. Harassment by peers was associated with higher stress and intent to quit. Harassment by higher-level men was associated with a wider variety of negative outcomes. (SK)

Different perspectives on critical literacy emphasize the relationship between language and power in terms of domination, access, diversity, or design. These orientations are interdependent, and all must be woven together to achieve the goal of critical literacy: equity and social justice. (SK)

Contributes to scholarship advancing the understanding of human communication by exploring the concept of controversy within a theoretical framework which does not presume the existence of a public sphere. Suggests an alternative perspective based on the intersection of moments of opportunity and specific sites of discourse. Applies this…

Expands the symbolic resources of the African Burial Ground through a dialogical reading of an essay in the same issue of this journal which offers a rhetorical examination of the controversy surrounding the African Burial Ground. Argues that, post-critique, controversies may be recuperated to recover an expanded sense of coalitional engagement,…

Responds to two articles in the same issue of this journal regarding a controversy over the African Burial Ground in New York City. Raises a third set of questions, arguing that investigations of rhetorics of controversy can also include investigations of the rhetorics of incommensurability, investigating the development of logics and…

Transcripts of interviews for places on a diploma course in an educational institution in Singapore are used to illustrate phenomenon of distance and familiarity in unequal dialog. The study discusses how interactional movement along distance-familiarity cline reveals participants' relative power, status, mutual understanding in speech situation…

Sources of organizational learning were studied for 131 employees, 109 of whom were managers, who participated in projects with external consultants in a large public-transport company in Norway. A multiple regression analysis explained 69% of organizational learning as a function of attitude toward learning. Differences between managers and other…