{"title":"Argument structures in decision‐making groups","authors":"D. Canary, Brent Brossmann, D. Seibold","doi":"10.1080/10417948709372710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372710","url":null,"abstract":"Within the context of a continuing research program on argument and group decision‐making, this study reports refinements in an existing coding scheme of interpersonal argument, and an analysis of argument structures in consensus and dissensus groups. Four argument structures were identified: simple, compound, eroded, and convergent. In addition, consensus groups had a greater proportion of convergent arguments than did dissensus groups. Discussion focuses on future directions for interpersonal and small‐group argument research.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117243047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fringe Television: A Challenge to Prime-Time Criticism.","authors":"Jimmie L. Reeves, Horace M. Newcomb","doi":"10.1080/10417948709372701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372701","url":null,"abstract":"To account adequately for television as a cultural force in the 1980's, this essay suggests that mass communication studies must accept the critical challenges posed by fringe television. After defining fringe television as the sea of programming that surrounds the prime‐time domain of the three major broadcast networks, this essay identifies end maps various fringe sectors appearing on today's broadcast and cable schedules. The articles included in this special issue are then introduced as examples of relevant textual and contextual approaches to the study of fringe content. This essay concludes by surveying the critical imperatives facing future studies involved in the analysis of the diverse programming that thrives on the ragged borders of popularity.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123659498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The late‐night talk show: Humor in fringe television","authors":"R. A. Buxton","doi":"10.1080/10417948709372704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372704","url":null,"abstract":"Although conflict and resolution are conventional functions in linear narrative genres, the joke format fails to resolve conflict. Thus, joking is one strategy for encouraging and sustaining resistance to ideological control. Using a cultural studies approach, this essay considers how the jokes of Johnny Carson, David Letterman, and Joan Rivers explore, support, and disrupt different elements of the American social experience.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131079077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MTV and the Music Video: Promo and Product.","authors":"Thomas Doherty","doi":"10.1080/10417948709372702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372702","url":null,"abstract":"Through a combination of deft market research, saturation airplay, and changes in the institutional and technical structures of television itself, MTV (Music Television), virtually alone among the vaunted cable “narrowcasters,” has not only survived but prospered. Its systematic harnassing of the promotional power of rock music has certainly altered the marketing and probably revised the nature of contemporary music. As popular music becomes increasingly dependent on video analogs, the experience becomes more visual and less aural—and “music you don't have to watch” becomes more of a record industry rarity.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"181 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133872075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generic Refinement on the Fringe: The Game Show.","authors":"Punch Shaw","doi":"10.1080/10417948709372706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372706","url":null,"abstract":"Since making the transition from radio to television, the game show has weathered the quiz show scandals, survived numerous changes in network programming strategies, and prospered in the wake of the FCC's “Prime‐Time Access Rule.” Treating the game show formula as a value‐laden system of cultural expression, this paper develops an analytic scheme for identifying and discussing major forms of the genre. This paper finds that recent genric refinements of the game show have been instituted to take advantage of the economic and regulatory conditions governing fringe television.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122668950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Television Talk and Ritual Space: Carson and Letterman.","authors":"Bernard M. Timberg","doi":"10.1080/10417948709372705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372705","url":null,"abstract":"From colonial comedy to the comedy of fringe TV's late‐night talk shows, the Yankee character has been a champion of common sense and cultural consensus. As exemplified in the stardom of Johnny Carson and David Letterman, today's Yankee hero operates as both a moderator of potential chaos and a reinforcer of mainstream social values. This essay explores how the formal television elements that constitute the ritual space of the talk show establish and contextualiu the socio‐centrality of the star‐host.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124466591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing the soap opera frame: Audience perceptions of value structures in soap operas and prime‐time serial dramas","authors":"R. Schrag, L. Rosenfeld","doi":"10.1080/10417948709372703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372703","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines audience perceptions of which values characterize soap operas in general and which values distinguish daytime from prime‐time offerings. An empirical method guided by critical concerns reveals meaningful differences between daytime soap operas and prime‐time serial dramas. The study considers the implications of both the method and the results for media scholars of critical and empirical inclinations.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130591471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comforting conversations: The effects of strategy type on evaluations of messages and message producers","authors":"Wendy Samter, B. Burleson, Lori Murphy","doi":"10.1080/10417948709372694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372694","url":null,"abstract":"Two studies assessing outcomes associated with the use of comforting strategies are reported. Study 1 examined how a message variable, individual‐difference variables, and contextual variables influenced evaluations of both comforting messages and the sources of these messages. Participants (N = 410) read one of eighteen different fictional conversations in which one person attempted to comfort a friend who was experiencing emotional distress. Evaluations of both messages and message sources were found to differ significantly as a function of the sophistication of the strategies employed by the source. In addition, female sources were more positively evaluated than male sources. Study 2 found that evaluations of comforting messages varied as a direct, linear function of message sophistication.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123578032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The rhetorical understanding of science: An explication and critical commentary","authors":"R. M. Bokeno","doi":"10.1080/10417948709372695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372695","url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by the Weltanschauungen opposition to positivist philosophy of science and the current interest in the relation of rhetoric and knowledge, some writers in rhetorical theory have argued that science may be seen as a fundamentally rhetorical process. This essay examines the presuppositional tenability of this view and challenges the sense in which this view is articulated in contemporary rhetorical scholarship.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"304 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121276350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Richard M. Weaver's uses of Kenneth Burke","authors":"Richard L. Johannesen","doi":"10.1080/10417948709372696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372696","url":null,"abstract":"This article first briefly identifies a number of parallel viewpoints on rhetoric that Burke and Weaver probably developed independently. Then, it describes a faculty seminar taught by Burke in 1949 in which Weaver participated. The primary focus of this investigation is to trace and to account for the eight direct citations of Burke by Weaver and the approximately twenty unacknowledged uses of Burke by Weaver. These direct citations and unattributed uses are concentrated in two of Weavers essays, “The Rhetoric of Social Science” and “Concealed Rhetoric in Scientistic Sociology,” and in his book The Ethics of Rhetoric. Weaver drew primarily on Burke's A Rhetoric of Motives and secondarily on his A Grammar of Motives, the two books that were the focus of the seminar taught by Burke and attended by Weaver.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121494786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}