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A cross-cultural analysis of the recognition and handling of conversational misunderstanding /
(1997)
As a result, the study finds that interactants' recognitions and handlings of misunderstanding are largely the same across American and Japanese conversations, while, at the same time, there are also some cultural differences. ...
Communication roles as predictors of motivation toward productivity under the conditions of groupness and organizationness.
(1980)
The rationale for this investigation suggests the dispersion of communication roles, ranging from the highly undispersed (organizationness) to the highly dispersed (groupness), may be distinguished in organizations. Ten ...
Host environment, communication, and psychological health: A study of cross-cultural adaptation comparing Korean expatriates in the United States with American expatriates in South Korea.
(2003)
Future studies in this field could prove yet more fruitful by expanding the range of nationalities of the expatriate groups living and working in a variety of cultural regions. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Argumentativeness, verbal aggressiveness, communication apprehension and their relationship to acceptance and support of decisions made in small groups.
(1999)
For analysis of the data, individual predisposition measures were the scores from the ARG, VA and CA questionnaire, and the behavior scores were tabulated from the coded group activity for each person. The "acceptance" ...
Communication equity and conversation in marital dyads :
(1982)
This study examined separate public conversations between twelve husbands and wives in an effort to relate conversation behaviors to their perceptions of context-free and context-specific communication equity. Couples were ...
Computer-mediated social support, older adults, and coping.
(1999)
One hundred and thirty-six older adults using SeniorNet and other related websites were recruited for this study via the Internet. They were asked to complete an on-line questionnaire. Each participant was asked to rate ...
The impact of culturally acquired behavioral norms on workplace communication.
(2004)
This study explored cultural diversity influences on the concepts of time and punctuality; allowable limits of expressiveness; kinesics and oculesic cues; request/response time; and ethnic and gender preferences for ...
Women, politics, and power: The media's construction of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
(1999)
From the beginning, their open political partnership was hotly discussed and debated in the media. Media attention and concern centered on Rodham Clinton's political power and influence. With her appointment to head the ...
Two directors performing the work of directing: An ethnographic and conversation analytic inquiry in the direction of pedagogical influence.
(2004)
The data for this study are ethnographic participant/observation and conversation analytic collections from two theatre production processes in an educational theatre program. The intent of the study is to investigate how ...
A cross-cultural analysis of response to authority in the classroom.
(1998)
To test these hypotheses, the author developed a survey designed to test for different communication styles vis-a-vis authority, in the person of university faculty, on the part of students grouped by nationality to represent ...