Western Journal of Communication articles from March 2002

Western Journal of Communication archives from March 2002

When Questioning Turns to Face Threat: An Interactional Sensitivity in 911 Call-Taking
March 22, 2002... Incident A woman calls 911 to report a drive-by shooting. She sounds panicked, hysterical. Call-taker Christy asks, "Did anyone get shot?" The caller says, "I don't care whether someone got shot." Christy yells, "We have to ask these...

The Acceptability of Deception as a Function of Perceivers' Culture, Deceiver's Intention, and Deceiver-Deceived Relationship
March 22, 2002... Although maxims such as "Honesty is the best policy" suggest a culture that values veracity and frowns on deception, recent research indicates that deception in interpersonal relationships is common in the United States. Several studies...

Rethinking Race, Revealing Dilemmas: Imagining a New Racial Subject in Race Traitor
March 22, 2002... Because racism changes and develops, because it is simultaneously a vast phenomenon framed by epochal historical developments and a moment-to-moment experiential reality, we can never expect fully to capture it theoretically. Nor can we...

Appeal to Proportion in the Clinton Impeachment Trial: Reconciling Judgment with Disposition
March 22, 2002... In a press release during the impeachment proceedings against President William Jefferson Clinton, Senator Paul Wellstone paired the ideals of proportion and prudence, concluding that even before the final Senate vote was taken "so many...

Nostalgic Longings and Imaginary Indias: Postcolonial Analysis, Collective Memories, and the Impeachment Trial of Warren Hastings
March 22, 2002... Given recent events in Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Israel, it is becoming increasingly evident that critics who deal with "practical political discourse" (1) need to constantly keep track of the colonial, imperial, and neo-colonial texts that...