Western Journal of Communication articles from October 2005

Western Journal of Communication archives from October 2005

Last Time Around: Editor's Note
October 1, 2005... I want to make a brief comment regarding my tenure at WJC. The comment is simply that people who submitted, the members of the editorial board, and the external reviewers were amazing in several respects. I will always remember the level of...

Context, Privilege, and Contingent Cultural Identifications in South African Group Interview Discourses
October 1, 2005... Introduction Political, economic, and social forces in South Africa include a history of colonization and apartheid as well as a current struggle toward democratic transformation. This context offers rich lessons for scholars of culture and...

Nonverbal and Verbal Approach Behaviors Related to Reported and Perceived Support Seeking Goals in Conversations
October 1, 2005... As a communicative event, the support episode is fraught with risks for both individuals needing and individuals providing support (Goldsmith & Parks, 1990; LaGaipa, 1990). The potential for negative evaluations, indebtedness,...

Relational Maintenance in Cross-Sex Friendships Characterized by Different Types of Romantic Intent: An Exploratory Study
October 1, 2005... Friendships are a significant source of happiness in people's lives, yet friends often take one another for granted (Fehr, 1996, 2000). Wiseman (1986) described friendship as fragile because there is little societal pressure for friends to...

Family Communication Schemata and the Circumplex Model of Family Functioning
October 1, 2005... The circumplex model of marital and family systems (Olson, 1986, 2000; Olson, Russell, & Sprenkle, 1983; Olson, Sprenkle, & Russell, 1979) represents one of the most extensively used models of family functioning, both in clinical and...

WSCA 2005 Presidential Address: Toward a Well-Functioning Intercultural Nation
October 1, 2005... I would like to speak today to our students--the up-and-coming generation--and to those among us who can help to prepare them to live in an intercultural twenty-first-century USA. The current generation has a relational and a national task,...

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
October 1, 2005... The subtitle of Western Journal of Communication, Volume 69, Number 2, indicated it was a special issue. It was not a special issue. The subtitle was intended only to reflect the contents of that particular issue. Importantly, all the authors...