Kentucky
Journal
of Communication
VOLUME 25
Spring 2006
Number 1
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Kentucky Journal of Communication
VOLUME 25 SPRING 2006 NUMBER 1
SPECIAL ISSUE: Undergraduate and Gradaute Research
ARTICLES
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Reinvisioning Communication Scholarship in Kentucky to Encourage Multiple Forms of Scholarly Excellence
Derek R. Lane
Keynote address from the Fall 2005 Kentucky Communication Association Conference that discusses the value of membership in the Kentucky Communication Association and seeks to accomplish three primary objectives: 1) to allow us to reflect on our scholarship; 2) to motivate communication researchers to foster increased collaborative scholarship; and to detail strategies to improve the health of our state and its citizens.
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Marginalizing Hinduism: Represenations of the Other in US Newspapers
P. Wesley Lundburg
The United States is in religious terms a country dominated by Christianity. The resulting backgrounded Christian perspective in the U.S. subtly marginalizes other religions so pervasively that evidence is found even in the leading international newspaper. Analysis of 194 articles on Hinduism from The new York Times (1995-2005) identified 26 articles that focused on Hinduism within the U.S. These became the data set for qualitative study of how Hinduism is represed in the U.S. newspapers, using the New York Times as a gauge of teh represenation of Hinduism in cosmopolitan journalism in the U.S. Despite a significant Hindu population in New York and the U.S. , the maorjority (88.46%) of the 26 articles Othered Hinduism by framing it as foreign; the absent discourse assumes Christianity as "native." Discourse analysis further revealed that the articles contain numerous textual references that frame Hinduism as Other.
A Women's Place is in the House . . . and the Senate: Encouraging Political Participation in Women's Magazines
Donna Kaudel
This essay focuses on women's magazines' coverage of women in politics, specifically those articles published in magazines that target women in their twenties and thirties. Using a cultural studies approach with a feminist criticism of the arguments presented, this essay concludes that the arguemnts offered in women's magazines to increase political participation are ultimately disempowering because they contribute to creating a confused female political identity. In promoting both the second wave feminist mentality of ultimate gender equality and the third wave approach of valuing gender differences, the artifacts send mixed messages about the merits of masculinity and femininity in the public sphere.
The Effect of Instructor Humor on Perceived Instructor Credibility, Student State Motivation, and Student Motives to Communicate in the Classroom
Katie Neary Dunleavy
Previous studies on instructor humor orientation have delineated the positive effects of humor in the classroom. The present study examines the perceived instructor humor for its relation to student motives to communicate with instructors (i.e., relational, functional, participatory, excuse-making, sycophantic), student state motivation, and perceivd source credibility. Instructor humor correlated with three of the five student motives to communicate: sycophantic, relational and participatory. Humor orientation positively correlated with student state motivation. Finally, humor orientation correlated with all three dimensions of instructor credibility.
The Council of Conservative Citizens Attempt a Face Lift: Defending Against Accurae Charges of Racism
Brian T. Kaylor and Bryan D. Fisher
Some accusations, such as racism, can effectively end one's influence in much of society. Therefore, how does a racist organization attempt to defend itself against the charges of racism? This study uses Benoit's typology of image repair strategies to analyze the Council of Conservative Citizens (C of CC) attempts to repel accusations of racism. Through examining the various self-defense strategies, this study argues that the C of CC failed in its attempt to repair its public image. As a result, this study offers imprtant implications for image repair concerning orgainzaitons, the Internet, targeting the audience, and avaialble strategies .
Semiotic Analysis of Hydraulic Metaphors and the Phenomena of Immigration
Mina C. Edmonson
Using a three-step method of semiotic description, reduction, and interpretation. I used a macrosemiotic anaysis of immigration to examine the conceptual metaphors describing this cultural phenomenon. Applying Charles S. Peirce's triad of firstness, secondness, and thirdness, I identify the semiotic relationships between the vehicle and the target of the immigration metaphors. COnducing a connotative analysis reducres the metaphor to its basic parts. The language/sign system of our culture creates an image intertextual relationship between the source domain and the varying vehicles reinforces the image schema and over time changes social conventions. Words are highly motivated and fully encoded in our society and culture. The intentiional use of highly motivated texts is an index to the desired reaction sought by the users.
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