A card sorting procedure was used to explore the structure of Japanese and American business people's concept of trustworthiness. Each of 115 Japanese and 121 U.S. respondents was asked to sort thirty trust-related words. Hierarchical ...

A card sorting procedure was used to explore the structure of Japanese and American business people's concept of trustworthiness. Each of115 Japanese and 121 U.S. respondents was asked to sort thirty trust-related words. Hierarchical cluster ...

Explores the implications of the "discount store" metaphor as it is commonly used and understood. Argues that "K-Mart U" would emphasize a predictable level of quality and convenience, and recognize and honor that few students ...

Data gathered from 178 parents of adolescent children are used to elucidate observed relationships between social class and family communication patterns. The results—that parents generalize from their own life experiences, particularly in the workplace—are consistent ...

Analyses from a random sample of 169 families established a dear relationship between schemata for marital and parent‐child communication. Hypotheses were derived by theoretically relating the Relational Dimensions Inventory and the Revised Family Communication Patterns ...

Information has become everybody's cliché, a password to modernity, a philosopher's stonethat recovers order from entropy while it transmutes nonsense into wisdom and drudgeryinto glamorous careers (eg, Campbell, 1982). We have proclaimed ourselves an“information society,” ...

Mass communication researchers interested in family communication have traditionally assumed that family norms are shared by all family members, and apparent disagreement about family norms has been ascribed to instrument unreliability. A survey of 308 ...

The relationship between TV use and reading achievemet is reappraised, using data from a 3-year panel study. Strong and significant bivariate correlations replicate the findings of previous studies and support the contention that television use ...

A case is presented for separating Shannon's (1949) paper on information theory from Weaver's introduction, which is shown to contain distortions, as well as proofs by coincidence and homonym. Shannon's mathematical tools and methods are ...

Recent research has produced evidence that both embodied simulations and abstract lexical processes are involved in language comprehension, with the balance between embodied and lexical processes influenced by the abstractness of the language and the ...

The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on metaphor and language. Featuring 35 chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume takes a broad ...

Using as a basis the discourse dynamics approach to metaphor developed by the editor, the book explores links between theory and empirical investigation, exemplifies data analysis and discusses issues in research design and practice. Particular attention is paid ...

This interdisciplinary volume provides a novel perspective on social aspects of language. It views ways of how the acquisition and management of knowledge of ourselves and others is reflected in language. Hence, by combining the two disciplines social cognition and linguistics, it proceeds beyond cognitive ...

Review: "Following an introductory analysis of each shared meta-technological space, the book examines the impact of biotechnology on how we understand information in human communication, meta-technologies and the law, and communicative dimensions of biotechnology and power. The diversity of perspectives offered by the contributors - ...

Review: "Richard F. Carter was involved in the development of the communication field almost from the beginning. Most closely associated with the mass communication tradition, he has nevertheless become a source of theoretical and methodological illumination for scholars in widely disparate areas. This book brings ...

When Hillary Clinton conceded in 2008 that she didn't quite 'shatter the glass ceiling', and when Rick Perry in 2012 called Mitt Romney a 'vulture capitalist', they used abbreviated metaphorical stories, in which stories about ...

'Metaphor', a form of figurative language in which one thing or idea is expressed in terms of another, is becoming an increasingly popular area of study, as it is relevant to the work of semanticists, ...