Preface 13
Overview 15
PART I. COMMUNICATION REVIEWS AND COMMENTARIES 19
1. Media Linkages Between Culture and Other Societal Systems&Karl Erik Rosengren 19
2. When Majorities Talk About Minorities&Teun A. van Dijk 57
3. Male-Female Communication on the Job:Literature Review and Commentary&Gail T. Fairhurst 83
4. Criticizing Press Coverage of the War in Lebanon:Toward a Paradigm of News as Storytelling&Itzhak Roeh and Sharon Ashley 117
5. Communication Skills and Childhood Peer Relationships: An Overview&Brant R. Burleson 143
6. Pornography and Sexual Aggression:A Social Learning Theory Analysis&James V.P. Check and Neil M. Malamuth 181
7. Interaction Processes and Outcomes in Interviews&Richard L. Street, Jr. 215
8. Mass Media Expenditures in Norway: The Principle of Relative Constancy Revisited&Anita Werner 251
9. World News in Nigerian Newspapers&Charles Okigbo 261
10. Electronic Leisure: Video Game Usage and the Communication Climate of Video Arcades&Rolf T. Wigand, Steven E. Borstelmann,and Franklin J. Boster 275
PART Ⅱ. INFORMATION SYSTEMS 297
11. Explaining Choice Shift: A Comparison of Competing Effects-Coded Models&Michael E. Mayer 297
12. Group Communication Networking in an Information Environment: Applying Metric Multidimensional Scaling&Ronald E. Rice and George A. Barnett 315
13. Analogies, Visualization, and Mental Processing of Science Stories&Michael A. Shapiro 339
PART Ⅲ. INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION 359
14. Violations of Distance Norms: Reciprocal and Compensatory Reactions for High and Low Self-Monitors&Joseph N. Cappella 359
15. Deception Detection and Relationship Development:The Other Side of Trust&Steven A. McCornack and Malcolm R& Parks 377
16. Situation Perception and Message Strategy Selection&Michael J. Cody, John O. Greene, Peter J. Marston,H. Dan O’Hair, Kevin T. Baaske,and Michael J. Schneider 390
PART Ⅳ. MASS COMMUNICATION 423
17. Economic Barriers to Entering Media Industries in the United States&Michael O. Wirth 423
18. A Semiotic Model for the Study of Mass Communication&Donald L. Fry and Virginia H. Fry 443
19. Children’s Perceptions of Moral Themes in Television Drama&Peter Gilbert Christenson 463
PART Ⅴ. ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION 483
20. Distortion of Communication in Hierarchical Relationships&Janet Fulk and Sirish Mani 483
21. Quality Circles and Changing Patterns of Communication&Cynthia Stohl 511
22. Persuading the Adjudicator: Conflict Tactics in the Grievance Procedure&Elizabeth A. Martin and Louis P. Cusella 533
PART Ⅵ. INTERCULTURAL AND DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION 555
23. The Influence of Language on Uncertainty Reduction:An Exploratory Study of Japanese-Japanese and Japanese-North American Interactions&William B. Gudykunst, Tsukasa Nishida, Hiroko Koike, and Nobuo Shiino 555
24. Culture and Gender: Effects on Assertive Behavior and Communication Competence&Mary Jane Collier 576
25. Information Sources and Images of the United States and Japan: A Q-Study of Adult Jordanian Males&Douglas A. Boyd 593
26. Cognitive Complexity and Intercultural Effectiveness:Perceptions in American-Japanese Dyads&Richard L. Wiseman and Hiroko Abe 611
PART Ⅶ. POLITICAL COMMUNICATION 625
27. Media Use, Interpersonal Communication, and Political Socialization: An Interactional Model Analysis Using LISREL&Cheng Kuo 625
28. Mass Media and Political Decision Making:Application of the Accumulated Information Model to the 1980 Presidential Election&Steuen H. Swindel and M. Mark Miller 642
29. Looking for Heteroscedasticity: A Means of Searching for Neglected Conditional Relationships&David K. Perry 658
PART Ⅷ. INSTRUCTIONAL COMMUNICATION 673
30. Children’s Reasoning About Compliance-Resisting Behaviors&Jeffrey S. McQuillen and Dorothy C. Higginbotham 673
31. Locus of Control as a Mediator: A Study of College Students’ Reactions to Teachers’ Attempts to Gain Compliance&Robert A. Stewart, Patricia Kearney,and Timothy G. Plax 691
PART Ⅸ. HEALTH COMMUNICATION 707
32. Social Support Satisfaction and Health Locus of Control: Discriminators of Breast Cancer Patients’ Styles of Coping&Claire F. Sullivan and Kathleen K. Reardon 707
33. The Post Nuntio Dilemma: Approaches to Communicating with the Dying&Vernon D. Miller and Mark L. Knapp 723
PART Ⅹ. PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION 741
34. Communicative Irrationality and Political Discourse in Jurgen Habermas:A Theological Experiment&Kyle A. Pasewark 741
35. Philosophical Foundations for the Construction of Critical Knowledge&Astrid Kersten 756
PART Ⅺ. HUMAN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY 777
36. Computer-Mediated Communication in an Organizational Setting: Explaining Task-Related and Socioemotional Uses&Charles W. Steinfield 777
37. From Consumer to Organizational Videotex Applications: Will Videotex Find a Home at the Office?&T. Andrew Finn and Concetta M. Stewart 805
Name Index 827
Subject Index 849
About the Editor 853