Responds to an article in the same issue. Discusses four levels of scrutiny of the language of a research program: vocabulary choices; transformation of terms with the research process; style, syntax, tone, and organization of research reports; and translation of findings into recommendations and policy. Advocates productive dialogue in the…

Describes power tactics that can be used by administrators. Personal power tactics include developing self-knowledge, stimulating need for power, and cumulating expertise. Interpersonal power tactics are applications of referent power, reward power, and coercive power. Situational power tactics include use of legitimate power, power as information…

The effects of rumor contents on rumor transmission were investigated among college students, and, as predicted, a dread rumor was heard and passed by more individuals than a wish rumor. Dread rumors may arouse anxiety because they forecast unpleasant outcomes for persons of lower social power or limited control capacities. (22 references) (LB)

Discusses "Researching Language," a full-length study dealing with questions about power and method in a range of social science disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, and sociolinguistics. The discussion asks whether the balance of power between researchers and research subjects can be altered. (VWL)

Comments on a previous article that deals with questions on researching language, and suggests that the assumption driving the arguments contained in that article is that social scientists typically possess a power-advantage over their research subjects. It is argued that such an assumption is implausible. (VWL)

Responds to an article dealing with issues of method in researching language, and addresses the question "what is research and why are linguists doing research?" (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research. It is suggested that the research approach highlighted in the article has indisputable merit, but that the blueprint is vague and difficult to know when to put into practice. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research. It is suggested that the previous article does not succeed in bridging the gap between moral and metasocial considerations concerning the use of knowledge and similar considerations concerning mode of acquisition. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research, recognizing the admirable motives advocated in the methodology put forth in the article and suggesting the need to address additional issues. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research. It is suggested that the method of empowering research subjects can go seriously wrong and that no linguistic research can be driven by ideas of empowering or disempowering alone. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. This comment suggests that understanding research talk can be facilitated by knowing something about the larger group of speech activities of which it is but one normal representative form. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. (VWL)

Responds to various positive and negative comments on an article focusing on power and method in linguistic research and describing a method for empowering research participants. (VWL)