Journal•ISSN: 0008-9575
Communication Studies
Taylor & Francis
About: Communication Studies is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Rhetoric & Rhetorical question. It has an ISSN identifier of 0008-9575. Over the lifetime, 1951 publications have been published receiving 29421 citations.
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TL;DR: This article reviewed three decades of research involving the definition and measurement of the source credibility construct and concluded that factor analytic research reported over the past decade has strayed from the original credibility/ethos construct and has treated that construct as virtually isomorphic with the construct of person perception.
Abstract: Three decades of research involving the definition and measurement of the source credibility construct are reviewed and a new study reported. It is concluded that factor analytic research reported over the past decade has strayed from the original credibility/ethos construct and has treated that construct as virtually isomorphic with the construct of person perception. It is argued that future factor analytic studies of source credibility would serve no useful purpose, that the historical definitions of the construct should be retained, and that satisfactory measures of that construct already exist.
518 citations
TL;DR: The common justification of rhetoric as "making the truth effective" courts an attitude which has nearly always viewed rhetoric as the harlot of the arts as mentioned in this paper, which is not the case here.
Abstract: The common justification of rhetoric as “making the truth effective” courts an attitude which has nearly always viewed rhetoric as the harlot of the arts. “Truth,” of course, can be taken in several senses. If one takes it as prior and immutable, then one has no use for rhetoric except to address inferiors. If one takes it as contingent, then perhaps one ought avoid the term altogether or at least re‐examine the familiar justification, since it implies truth as somehow existing prior to persuasion.
380 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a study of individuals in dating relationships to develop a measure that assesses the sources and content of relational uncertainty and identified three content issues for uncertainty focused on either the self or the partner.
Abstract: Uncertainty reduction theory suggests that the self, the partner, and the relationship constitute three sources of uncertainty within interpersonal relationships; however, existing operationaliza‐tions of uncertainty focus predominately on partner issues More recent extensions of the uncertainty construct to developed relationships call for a measure that both captures the range of uncertainty as originally conceptualized and attends to the uncertainty issues relevant in ongoing associations We conducted a study of individuals in dating relationships to develop a measure that assesses the sources and content of relational uncertainty Results identified three content issues for uncertainty focused on either the self or the partner: desire for the relationship, evaluation of the relationship, and goals for the relationship Uncertainty about the relationship encompassed four content issues: behavioral norms for the relationship, mutuality of feelings between the partners, current definition of the relati
359 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a study of news coverage of those terrorist events revealed a thematic pattern of terrorism coverage in which fear of international terrorism is dominant, particularly as Muslims/Arabs/Islam working together in organized terrorist cells against a “Christian America,” while domestic terrorism is cast as a minor threat that occurs in isolated incidents by troubled individuals.
Abstract: Since 9/11 there have been 11 terrorist events on U.S. soil that occurred or were stopped on the planned day of attack. This study of news coverage of those terrorist events revealed a thematic pattern of terrorism coverage in which fear of international terrorism is dominant, particularly as Muslims/Arabs/Islam working together in organized terrorist cells against a “Christian America,” while domestic terrorism is cast as a minor threat that occurs in isolated incidents by troubled individuals.
323 citations
TL;DR: The concepts of organizational identification and organizational commitment are examined in this paper in an effort to explicate both their interrelations and their distinctiveness, and identification is defined as a term referring to the "substance" of individual organizational relationships and commitment as referring to their form.
Abstract: The concepts of organizational identification and organizational commitment are examined in an effort to explicate both their interrelations and their distinctiveness. The essay establishes identification as a term referring to the “substance” of individual‐organizational relationships and commitment as referring to their form.
300 citations