Communication Studies articles from March 2000

Communication Studies archives from March 2000

PRE-INCEPTION RHETORIC IN THE CREATION OF A SOCIAL MOVEMENT: THE CASE OF FRANCES WRIGHT.
March 22, 2000... Frances Wright D'Arusmont, more commonly known as Fanny Wright, is a rhetorical enigma. From 1825 to 1835, she was a household name in the United States (Kissel, 1993, p. ii), who was adored and respected by some, hated, feared, and vilified by...

WHO ARE WE AND WHO AM I? GADAMER'S COMMUNAL ONTOLOGY AS PALIMPSEST.
March 22, 2000... As a convention of academic writing, "we" means sometimes literally group authorship, or sometimes merely its pretence; sometimes it implies a community of scholars or a group of adherents, the amorphous crowd of author and readers; more often...

ROBERT TAFT AND NUREMBERG: THE VERDICT OF TIME.
March 22, 2000... On October 5, 1946, Senator Robert Taft spoke at Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio, as part of a three-day convocation on "The Heritage and Responsibility of the English-Speaking Peoples." The topic of Taft's speech was Anglo-American law and...

CULTURE AND INFORMATION MANIPULATION THEORY: THE EFFECTS OF SELF-CONSTRUAL AND LOCUS OF BENEFIT ON INFORMATION MANIPULATION.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2000... Deception is one of the most significant and pervasive social phenomena of our age (Miller & Stiff, 1993), and has frequently been the focus of communication and psychological inquiry. Knapp, Hart, and Dennis (1974) suggest deception is...

CHINESE-AMERICAN CHILDREN'S ETHNIC IDENTITY: MEASUREMENT AND IMPLICATIONS.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2000... Cultural diversity is a reality in contemporary American society. Cultural and ethnic differences have been frequently addressed sociologically, historically, and politically as a social problem or a source of social conflicts, and related to...