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Principles of intergroup communication / Howard Giles -- Social psychological approaches to intergroup communication / Scott A. Reid -- Approaches and methods in intergroup communication / Cynthia Gallois, Julia Cretchley, and Bernadette M. Watson -- Ethnographic studies of intergroup communication / Donal Carbaugh. [et al.] -- Identity categories as action in talk / Ann Weatherall -- Sociolinguistics and intergroup communication / Maria Stubbe -- Accents, nonverbal behavior, and intergroup bias / John F. Dovidio and Agata Gluszek -- Ethnolinguistic interaction and multilingual communication / Richard Y. Bourhis, Rana Sioufi, and Itesh Sachdev -- Power of messages through speech and silence / Sik Hung Ng and Ting Kin Ng -- Hate speech and stereotypic talk / John Haas -- Terrorism as intergroup communication / Edward Orehek -- Communication and reconciling intergroup conflict / Donald G. Ellis and Ifat Maoz -- Intergroup contact and communication / Jake Harwood and Nick Joyce -- Reducing intergroup conflict in the digital age / Yair Amichai-Hamburger -- Gender and intergroup communication / Nicholas A. Palomares -- Communication and identities characterized by male sexual orientation / Christopher Hajek -- Challenges and opportunities for communication between age groups / Mary Lee Hummert -- Communication between the generations / Karen K. Myers and Courtney W. Davis -- Understanding disability as an intergroup encounter / Ashley P. Duggan, James D. Robinson, and Teresa L. Thompson -- Intergroup messages in policing the community / Charles W. Choi and Howard Giles -- Interreligious communication / Reeshma Haji and Richard N. Lalonde -- Intergroup communication and health care / Bernadette M. Watson, David G. Hewett, and Cynthia Gallois -- Educational contexts and intergroup communication / Jon F. Nussbaum, Alysa Lucas, and Tara McManus -- Social identity and the dynamics of organizational communication / Thomas A. Morton. [et al.] -- Family as an intergroup arena / Jordan Soliz and Christine E. Rittenour -- Sports viewers and intergroup communication / Paul Haridakis -- Group membership in race-related media processes and effects / Dana Mastro and Anita Atwell Seate -- Epilogue -- Norm talk and identity in intergroup communication / Michael Hogg and Howard Giles -- Contributors -- Index

Research on the language attitudes of members of dominant and minority speech communities has special importance in countries such as Australia, where governments are in the process of developing a national language policy. Research in Australia suggests that Anglo-Australians remain strongly monolingual and Anglophile in their attitudes; they support educational programs on other languages mainly for their children's own educational advantage. In addition, they show preference in most situations for standard or prestige varieties of English. Second generation members of immigrant groups are under strong pressure to assimilate and to abandon their community languages. Opportunities to learn and use community language are somewhat restricted. In addition, young, second generation Australians may in some cases have even more negative attitudes toward nonstandard accents in English then do Anglo-Australians although they may value their own ethnic language as a signal of solidarity with their ethnic community.

Eighty-eight (45 male, 43 female) Greek-Australian and 89 (43 male, 46 female) Anglo-Australian young people, all residents of a multi-ethnic city with relatively small immigrant groups, completed a self-administered questionnaire which explored sexrole orientation and stereotypes and attitudes to marriage. Greek-Australian subjects of both sexes described themselves as having higher levels of masculine traits, and to desire these traits more, than did Anglo-Australian subjects. Other results revealed that Greek-Australian subjects advocated a less egalitarian pattern of decision-making within marriage, and that they placed more importance than Anglo-Australians on the practical and familial aspects of married life. Thus, Greek values and attitudes to marriage and sex roles appear to maintain some influence on these second generation Greek-Australians.

SummaryThis study employed similarity judgments to determine the dimensions used in distinguishing between methods of contraception, and to investigate individual differences in the use of these dimensions. Three groups of subjects rated the similarity of seventeen methods of contraception, and also rated each method on a number of adjective scales. Multidimensional scaling of the similarity judgments revealed two dimensions: one related to effectiveness, expense, and safety, and the other differentiating between standard and non-standard methods of contraception (or natural and non-natural ones). In addition, methods of contraception were arrayed in the space mainly on the basis of physical similarity. Analyses of the rating scales indicated that subjects perceived methods accurately in terms of effectiveness, but were inaccurate in their ratings of safety to the user. Finally, analysis of individual differences indicated that the second dimension was more salient to younger than to older subjects, but did not reveal differences related to religion or contraceptive use.

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Perceived dissimilarity and its association with work group involvement were examined in this study. Additionally, perceived group openness to diversity was examined as a moderator of this relationship. A longitudinal study was conducted with nurses in four departments of a public hospital. Results revealed that visible dissimilarity was negatively associated with work group involvement at both times, and informational dissimilarity was negatively associated with work group involvement at Time 1. Openness to diversity interacted with visible and informational dissimilarity in the prediction of work group involvement at both times. This interaction pattern showed that there was a negative relationship between dissimilarity and work group involvement when individuals perceived low group openness to diversity, whereas there was no relationship when individuals perceived high group openness to diversity. Results highlight the importance of managing perceptions of difference and introducing norms that encourage the active involvement of group members.

The metaphor of boundary is ubiquitous and has guided much research on interpersonal and intergroup communication. This article explores the metaphor by reviewing the literature on boundaries with a focus on miscommunication and problematic talk. In particular, the tensions around privacy and self-disclosure, and rules about family communication are good examples of communication and miscommunication across interpersonal boundaries. In the intergroup arena, the negotiation of boundaries implicates the sociostructural relations between groups and the choices individuals make based on the identities that are salient to them in a given context. We argue that miscommunication can best be conceived of as indicator of tension in negotiating boundaries as they emerge and change in interaction.

This paper reports a study of sources of information about HIV/AIDS and trust of the sources among heterosexuals in 1989 (113 females and 91 males) and 1994 (185 females and 66 males). We also examined whether perceived personal risk of HIV infection was predicted by sources of information about HIV/AIDS, trust of the sources, how informed about AIDS people believed they were, and perceived risk of infection to others, as well as whether there was a relationship between perceived personal risk and safe sex behaviour. Participants received most of their information about AIDS/HIV from magazines, newspapers, and television, but placed most trust on sources such as doctors and HIV/AIDS organisations. Perceived personal risk was influenced most by perceived risk to friends and to people with the same sexual practices. In the 1994 sample, perceived personal risk was correlated with the amount of condom use among participants with sexual experience. These results indicate ther has been relative stability across a five‐year period. They also point to the continuing discrepancy among young heterosexuals between the most‐used and most‐trusted sources of information, as well as to the importance of peer influence on perceptions of personal risk of HIV infection.