Communication Research articles from July 1997

Communication Research archives from July 1997

Cultural variability in communication.(Special Issue: Cultural Variability in Communication)
July 1, 1997... Communication and culture reciprocally influence each other. The culture in which individuals are socialized influences the way they communicate, and the way that individuals communicate can change the culture they share over time. Most...

A Japan-U.S. comparison of apology styles.(Special Issue: Cultural Variability in Communication)
July 1, 1997... In current cross-cultural and intercultural communication research, some communicative constructs seem to receive more attention than others. Researchers, who have only limited time and resources, are naturally inclined to pursue subjects that...

Young people's beliefs about intergenerational communication: an initial cross-cultural comparison.(Special Issue: Cultural Variability in Communication)
July 1, 1997... In spite of a recent surge of research interest in communication and aging, there has been little work in the field of communication concerned with matters of the life span, particularly aging and intergenerational communication. In fact, the...

A symbols-and-meaning approach to the organizational cultures of banks in the United States, Japan, and Taiwan.(Special Issue: Cultural Variability in Communication)
July 1, 1997... Recently, communication and organization researchers have focused on the role of national and organizational cultures in facilitating or preventing organizational development. For example, the Japanese value set is considered the basis of the...

A cross-cultural study of political advertising in the United States and Korea.(Special Issue: Cultural Variability in Communication)
July 1, 1997... The underlying relationship between the content of political advertising and the cultural values of a society has been recognized by researchers. Political advertising has an overt function - to persuade voters. The inner structures of...

A cross-cultural comparison of teacher immediacy in American and Japanese college classrooms.(Special Issue: Cultural Variability in Communication)
July 1, 1997... During the past 15 years, the topic of teacher immediacy has received a great deal of attention in the communication literature. The concept of immediacy stems from the work of Mehrabian (1967, 1981) and refers to communication that enhances...