Journal•ISSN: 0193-6700
Western Journal of Speech Communication
Taylor & Francis
About: Western Journal of Speech Communication is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Rhetoric & Rhetorical question. It has an ISSN identifier of 0193-6700. Over the lifetime, 651 publications have been published receiving 13403 citations.
Topics: Rhetoric, Rhetorical question, Rhetorical criticism, Interpersonal communication, Organizational communication
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss text, context, and the fragmentation of contemporary culture in the context of Rhetorical criticism, and present a survey of the literature in this area.
Abstract: (1990). Text, context, and the fragmentation of contemporary culture. Western Journal of Speech Communication: Vol. 54, Rhetorical Criticism, pp. 274-289.
512 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an approach to the study of organizational communication and organizational cultures based on Interpretive Approaches to the Study of Organizational Communication (IAOC). But they do not discuss the relationship between communication and culture.
Abstract: (1982). Communication and organizational cultures. Western Journal of Speech Communication: Vol. 46, Interpretive Approaches to the Study of Organizational Communication, pp. 115-130.
256 citations
TL;DR: This article examined blended friendships, i.e., close friends who are embedded in the same work environment, from a relational dialectics perspective, and found that the overall amount of reported dual-role tension was positively associated with organizational formalization and negatively related to relationship closeness.
Abstract: Researchers of personal relationships for the most part have ignored the social contexts in which the relationship parties are embedded. This study examines blended friendships, i.e., close friends who are embedded in the same work environment, from a relational dialectics perspective. A survey comprised of open‐ended and closed‐ended items was completed by 162 adults who had a close friend as a work associate. Five dialectical tensions were identified: autonomy‐connection, equality‐inequality, impartiality‐favoritism, judgment‐acceptance, and openness‐closedness. The overall amount of reported dual‐role tension was positively associated with organizational formalization and negatively related to relationship closeness. Blended friends were more likely to manage dual‐role tension through Role Integration under conditions of decreasing tension and increasing workgroup cohesion. Status‐unequal friends were more likely than status‐equal friends to manage their dual‐role tension through Selection.
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TL;DR: Turn Point analysis as discussed by the authors is a method through which researchers may "focus" to participants' points of view in organizational socialization and organizational identification, and it was used in a study reported here in order to help round out the relevant bodies of research.
Abstract: This report identifies a gap between theory and research which plagues two areas of organizational inquiry, describes a method through which these concerns may be addressed, and describes a study which employed this method. Specifically, recent conceptualizations of organizational socialization and organizational identification view individuals as active participants in their relationships with organizations. Yet, research in both areas has over‐emphasized the organization's perspective and under‐emphasized the individual's. Turning point analysis is a method through which researchers may nisten” to participants’ points of view. It was used in a study reported here in order to help round out the relevant bodies of research. Retrospective interviewing was used to reconstruct the history and process of individuals’ socialization experiences over an eight‐month period. Fifteen types of turning points were identified. The results derived from turning point analysis are compared with conceptualizations of soci...
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TL;DR: A more holistic, meaning centered, tradition has developed in European writings as mentioned in this paper and during the past twenty years this second tradition has become of much greater interest to American researchers in the social sciences.
Abstract: 1 remendous progress has been made in the developtnent of scientific approaches to the study of human communication during the twentieth century. While research during this time has been dominated by positivistic, natural science modeled concepts and methods, a more holistic, meaning centered, tradition has developed in European writings. During the past twenty years this second tradition has become of much greater interest to American researchers in the social sciences. The foundations for this second tradition, referred to generically as the interpretive paradigm, are ancient. Its roots lie with the sophists; its development as the hidden side of the western tradition emerged with clarity in the writings of Vico, and its recollection as the foundation for the human sciences by Dilthey. The development of the interpretive paradigm in the social sciences in the twentieth century has continued through the writings in philosophical hermeneutics and the sociological work spawned by Weber.' Discussions of the interpretive paradigm are present in nearly every discipline's literature^ and are available in several excellent collections.' Both communication\" and organizational^ theorists have shown great interest.
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