Full Description
The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems, processes, and impacts across the discipline. Sponsored by the International Communication Association, each volume provides a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms. This volume re-issues the yearbook from 1984.
Contents
I: Communication Reviews and Commentaries; 1: Uses and Gratifications: A Theoretical Perspective; 2: Communicative Competence: An Interactive Approach; 3: Incongruity in Humor: The Cognitive Dynamics; 4: The Second Electronic Revolution: The Computer and Children; 5: The Employment Screening Interview: An Organizational Assimilation and Communication Perspective; 6: Black Children's Esteem: Parents, Peers, and Television; 7: Listening Behavior: Definition and Measurement; 8: Communication Development in Children; 9: Automaticity, Arousal, and Information Exposure; 10: Organizational Climate, Communication, and Culture; 11: Organizing Communication Behavior: The Role of Schemas and Constructs; 12: Fear-Arousing Persuasive Messages; II: Information Systems; 13: Message Structure, Inference Making, and Recall; 14: Choice Shifts: Argument Qualities or Social Comparisons; III: Interpersonal Communication; 15: Affect and Social Information Acquisition: Sit Back, Relax, and Tell Me About Yourself; 16: Global Impressions of Social Skills: Behavioral Predictors; 17: Deception: Paralinguistic and Verbal Leakage; IV: Mass Communication; 18: Fear and Victimization: Exposure to Television and Perceptions of Crime and Fear; 19: Public Views on Crime: Television Exposure and Media Credibility; V: Organizational Communication; 20: Managerial Communication and Work Perception; 21: Managerial Control and Discipline: Whips and Chains; 22: Assimilating New Members into Organizations; VI: Intercultural and International Communication; 23: "A Little Good News": Development News in Third World Newspapers; 24: International Communication Media Appraisal: Tests in Germany; 25: Translation Accuracy: Using Multidimensional Scaling; VII: Political Communication; 26: Media Agenda-Setting and Public Opinion: Is There a Link?; 27: Reagan on Radio; 28: Persuading the Blue-Collar Voter: Issues, Images, and Homophily; VIII: Instructional Communication; 29: Power in the Classroom IV: Alternatives to Discipline; 30: Compliance-Resisting Behaviors: The Effects of Age, Agent, and Types of Request; IX: Health Communication; 31: When an M.D. Gives an R.N. a Harmful Order: Modifying a Bind; 32: Communication and Job Stress in a Health Organization
