Sally Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3770364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6000-4191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Normative Pragmatic Inquiry into the Volatility of Norms in Argumentation
Twentieth century innovations in reasoning about health and medicine (randomized clinical trials, systematic reviews, and a growing list of other inventions) have dramatically changed what counts as good argumentation within this domain. Though these new forms are often highly specialized and highly technical, they are gradually becoming “norms of public argumentation” (Zenker, et al., 2024), spreading from esoteric discussion among medical scien…
Studying Controversies
Argumentation occurring in public controversies (large, long-lasting, and complex disagreements) deserve more attention from argumentation theorists than they have yet received, primarily because they offer plentiful opportunity to discover new facts about the contemporary practice of argumentation. Drawing on the polylogue framework (Lewiński and Aakhus 2023) and the cartography of controversy (Venturini and Munk 2022), nine suggestions are offe…
What Was the President’s Standpoint and When Did He Take It? A Normative Pragmatic Study of Standpoint Emergence in a Presidential Press Conference
In contrast to views that treat positions and standpoints as defining the scope of argumentation, our normative pragmatic approach sees positions and standpoints as interactionally emergent products of argumentative work. Here, this is shown in a detailed case study of a question-answer session in which former US President Donald J. Trump was pressed by journalists to express and defend his standpoint on the Charlottesville protests by neo-Nazis …
Changing Conceptions of "Message Effects" A 24-Year Overview
Jackson and Jacobs (1983) argued for three changes in the conduct of message effects research: inclusion of multiple message replications as instances of a treatment, recognition of message replications as a source of random variation in the estimation of treatment effects, and attention to issues of message sampling. This review updates their argument and examines 24 years of research published in Human Communication Research for evidence of att…
M > 1
Journal Article M = 1: Analysis of Treatment × Replication Designs Get access Sally Jackson, Sally Jackson 1Sally Jackson is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Arizona. Dale E. Brashers is now an instructor in the Department of Communication at Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dale E. Brashers Dale E. Brashers 1Sally Jackson is Associate Professor of Communicatio…
Meta-Analysis for Explanation
Meta‐analysis for primary and secondary data analysis
(1991). Meta‐analysis for primary and secondary data analysis: The super‐experiment metaphor. Communication Monographs: Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 449-462
About Coherence
Messages as replications
defense of single-message designs from our suggestion that messages be replicated within experiments. We respond to each of these controversies. First, we examine their claim that "controlled " single-message designs completely eliminate all confounding of manipulated variables with other possible inßuences on the dependent variable and show it to rest on manifestly implausible assumptions. Second, we show why researchers should plan for the poss…
Reply to Morley
Journal Article Reply to Morley Get access Daniel J. O'Keefe, Daniel J. O'Keefe 1University of Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sally Jackson Scott Jacobs Sally Jackson Scott Jacobs 2University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 15, Issue 1, September 1988, Pages 148–151, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1988.…
The Search for Reliable Generalizations About Messages A Comparison of Research Strategies
Two ways of conducting the search for generalizations about messages are considered: Morley's (this volume) proposal that single-message research designs be used, with subsequent meta-analytic summaries, and Jackson and Jacobs's (1983) proposal that multiple-message designs be used, with messages treated as a random factor in the statistical analysis. Jackson and Jacobs's approach is shown to provide a more dependable, efficient, and practical me…
Conversational Relevance
Strategy and structure in conversational influence attempts
Discourse analytic research has treated the communicative and sequential properties of conversational influence attempts (CIAs) independently. This study assembles evidence that the communicative properties of a variety of act-types in CIA episodes can be placed on a continuum according to the degree to which the act-type is dissociated from the illocutionary force of a request. Conversationalists' assignment of any utterance to a place on this c…
Generalizing About Messages
Journal Article Generalizing about Messages: Suggestions for Design and Analysis of Experiments Get access Sally Jackson, Sally Jackson 1Sally Jackson (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1980) is an assistant professor of communication at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Scott Jacobs Scott Jacobs 2Scott Jacobs (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1982) is a vis…
Ambiguity and implicature in children's discourse comprehension
21 first graders and 20 third graders were told to pick drawings of clowns out of an array on the basis of ambiguous messages. One of the messages could be taken to refer to either of two clowns, depending on which interpretive strategy the child employed. The other message could be given no definite interpretation. Although 23 of 41 children refused to make a definite choice for the second message, 31 specified choices for the first message. Fir…
Two models of syllogistic reasoning
Two theories of logical processing are compared in this study. The Atmosphere Effect, originating in the psychology of reasoning, predicts errors in deductive reasoning based on matching certain features of the premises with features of the conclusion. The Logical Ambiguity Hypothesis, originating in communication theory, predicts reasoning errors on the basis of internal set representations of the relationships implied by the premises. In a seri…
"Nonstationary Data Should Not Be "Corrected
Ellis (1979), in his study of interaction patterns in groups, discovered that his data did not satisfy the assumptions of a simple Markov model. In particular, he found that his data failed to satisfy the assumption of stationarity. In response to this, Ellis employed a new composite matrix procedure to generate a single set of predicted one-step transition probabilities. This essay argues that this procedure (1) does not generate one-step probab…
Conversational implicature in children's comprehension of reference
Conversational implicature is a central process in natural language comprehension. This study shows that grade school children cooperate in the creation of the meaning of messages by actively trying to compute implicatures. Previous analyses of the development of comprehension skills have concluded that children's responses to underinformative messages reflect inability to recognize when others’ messages violate rules for clear and efficient comm…
Structure of conversational argument
Conversational argument is characterized as sequential expansion of adjacency pairs aimed at regulating disagreement. The preconditions and embedded propositons of the speech act performed in the arguable turn define the sorts of expansions recognizable as arguments. General properties of adjacency pairs explain the prevalence of enthymemes in conversation
Generalizing About Messages
Journal Article Generalizing about Messages: Suggestions for Design and Analysis of Experiments Get access Sally Jackson, Sally Jackson 1Sally Jackson (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1980) is an assistant professor of communication at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Scott Jacobs Scott Jacobs 2Scott Jacobs (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1982) is a vis…
Strategy and structure in conversational influence attempts
Discourse analytic research has treated the communicative and sequential properties of conversational influence attempts (CIAs) independently. This study assembles evidence that the communicative properties of a variety of act-types in CIA episodes can be placed on a continuum according to the degree to which the act-type is dissociated from the illocutionary force of a request. Conversationalists' assignment of any utterance to a place on this c…
Structure of conversational argument
Conversational argument is characterized as sequential expansion of adjacency pairs aimed at regulating disagreement. The preconditions and embedded propositons of the speech act performed in the arguable turn define the sorts of expansions recognizable as arguments. General properties of adjacency pairs explain the prevalence of enthymemes in conversation
The Search for Reliable Generalizations About Messages A Comparison of Research Strategies
Two ways of conducting the search for generalizations about messages are considered: Morley's (this volume) proposal that single-message research designs be used, with subsequent meta-analytic summaries, and Jackson and Jacobs's (1983) proposal that multiple-message designs be used, with messages treated as a random factor in the statistical analysis. Jackson and Jacobs's approach is shown to provide a more dependable, efficient, and practical me…
Messages as replications
defense of single-message designs from our suggestion that messages be replicated within experiments. We respond to each of these controversies. First, we examine their claim that "controlled " single-message designs completely eliminate all confounding of manipulated variables with other possible inßuences on the dependent variable and show it to rest on manifestly implausible assumptions. Second, we show why researchers should plan for the poss…
Changing Conceptions of "Message Effects" A 24-Year Overview
Jackson and Jacobs (1983) argued for three changes in the conduct of message effects research: inclusion of multiple message replications as instances of a treatment, recognition of message replications as a source of random variation in the estimation of treatment effects, and attention to issues of message sampling. This review updates their argument and examines 24 years of research published in Human Communication Research for evidence of att…
Meta‐analysis for primary and secondary data analysis
(1991). Meta‐analysis for primary and secondary data analysis: The super‐experiment metaphor. Communication Monographs: Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 449-462
M > 1
Journal Article M = 1: Analysis of Treatment × Replication Designs Get access Sally Jackson, Sally Jackson 1Sally Jackson is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Arizona. Dale E. Brashers is now an instructor in the Department of Communication at Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dale E. Brashers Dale E. Brashers 1Sally Jackson is Associate Professor of Communicatio…
Reply to Morley
Journal Article Reply to Morley Get access Daniel J. O'Keefe, Daniel J. O'Keefe 1University of Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sally Jackson Scott Jacobs Sally Jackson Scott Jacobs 2University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 15, Issue 1, September 1988, Pages 148–151, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1988.…
Conversational Relevance
Conversational implicature in children's comprehension of reference
Conversational implicature is a central process in natural language comprehension. This study shows that grade school children cooperate in the creation of the meaning of messages by actively trying to compute implicatures. Previous analyses of the development of comprehension skills have concluded that children's responses to underinformative messages reflect inability to recognize when others’ messages violate rules for clear and efficient comm…
"Nonstationary Data Should Not Be "Corrected
Ellis (1979), in his study of interaction patterns in groups, discovered that his data did not satisfy the assumptions of a simple Markov model. In particular, he found that his data failed to satisfy the assumption of stationarity. In response to this, Ellis employed a new composite matrix procedure to generate a single set of predicted one-step transition probabilities. This essay argues that this procedure (1) does not generate one-step probab…
Structure of conversational argument
Conversational argument is characterized as sequential expansion of adjacency pairs aimed at regulating disagreement. The preconditions and embedded propositons of the speech act performed in the arguable turn define the sorts of expansions recognizable as arguments. General properties of adjacency pairs explain the prevalence of enthymemes in conversation
Conversational implicature in children's comprehension of reference
Conversational implicature is a central process in natural language comprehension. This study shows that grade school children cooperate in the creation of the meaning of messages by actively trying to compute implicatures. Previous analyses of the development of comprehension skills have concluded that children's responses to underinformative messages reflect inability to recognize when others’ messages violate rules for clear and efficient comm…
Ambiguity and implicature in children's discourse comprehension
21 first graders and 20 third graders were told to pick drawings of clowns out of an array on the basis of ambiguous messages. One of the messages could be taken to refer to either of two clowns, depending on which interpretive strategy the child employed. The other message could be given no definite interpretation. Although 23 of 41 children refused to make a definite choice for the second message, 31 specified choices for the first message. Fir…
Two models of syllogistic reasoning
Two theories of logical processing are compared in this study. The Atmosphere Effect, originating in the psychology of reasoning, predicts errors in deductive reasoning based on matching certain features of the premises with features of the conclusion. The Logical Ambiguity Hypothesis, originating in communication theory, predicts reasoning errors on the basis of internal set representations of the relationships implied by the premises. In a seri…
"Nonstationary Data Should Not Be "Corrected
Ellis (1979), in his study of interaction patterns in groups, discovered that his data did not satisfy the assumptions of a simple Markov model. In particular, he found that his data failed to satisfy the assumption of stationarity. In response to this, Ellis employed a new composite matrix procedure to generate a single set of predicted one-step transition probabilities. This essay argues that this procedure (1) does not generate one-step probab…
Strategy and structure in conversational influence attempts
Discourse analytic research has treated the communicative and sequential properties of conversational influence attempts (CIAs) independently. This study assembles evidence that the communicative properties of a variety of act-types in CIA episodes can be placed on a continuum according to the degree to which the act-type is dissociated from the illocutionary force of a request. Conversationalists' assignment of any utterance to a place on this c…
Generalizing About Messages
Journal Article Generalizing about Messages: Suggestions for Design and Analysis of Experiments Get access Sally Jackson, Sally Jackson 1Sally Jackson (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1980) is an assistant professor of communication at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Scott Jacobs Scott Jacobs 2Scott Jacobs (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1982) is a vis…
Conversational Relevance
Reply to Morley
Journal Article Reply to Morley Get access Daniel J. O'Keefe, Daniel J. O'Keefe 1University of Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sally Jackson Scott Jacobs Sally Jackson Scott Jacobs 2University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 15, Issue 1, September 1988, Pages 148–151, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1988.…
The Search for Reliable Generalizations About Messages A Comparison of Research Strategies
Two ways of conducting the search for generalizations about messages are considered: Morley's (this volume) proposal that single-message research designs be used, with subsequent meta-analytic summaries, and Jackson and Jacobs's (1983) proposal that multiple-message designs be used, with messages treated as a random factor in the statistical analysis. Jackson and Jacobs's approach is shown to provide a more dependable, efficient, and practical me…
About Coherence
Messages as replications
defense of single-message designs from our suggestion that messages be replicated within experiments. We respond to each of these controversies. First, we examine their claim that "controlled " single-message designs completely eliminate all confounding of manipulated variables with other possible inßuences on the dependent variable and show it to rest on manifestly implausible assumptions. Second, we show why researchers should plan for the poss…
Meta‐analysis for primary and secondary data analysis
(1991). Meta‐analysis for primary and secondary data analysis: The super‐experiment metaphor. Communication Monographs: Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 449-462
Meta-Analysis for Explanation
M > 1
Journal Article M = 1: Analysis of Treatment × Replication Designs Get access Sally Jackson, Sally Jackson 1Sally Jackson is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Arizona. Dale E. Brashers is now an instructor in the Department of Communication at Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dale E. Brashers Dale E. Brashers 1Sally Jackson is Associate Professor of Communicatio…
Changing Conceptions of "Message Effects" A 24-Year Overview
Jackson and Jacobs (1983) argued for three changes in the conduct of message effects research: inclusion of multiple message replications as instances of a treatment, recognition of message replications as a source of random variation in the estimation of treatment effects, and attention to issues of message sampling. This review updates their argument and examines 24 years of research published in Human Communication Research for evidence of att…
What Was the President’s Standpoint and When Did He Take It? A Normative Pragmatic Study of Standpoint Emergence in a Presidential Press Conference
In contrast to views that treat positions and standpoints as defining the scope of argumentation, our normative pragmatic approach sees positions and standpoints as interactionally emergent products of argumentative work. Here, this is shown in a detailed case study of a question-answer session in which former US President Donald J. Trump was pressed by journalists to express and defend his standpoint on the Charlottesville protests by neo-Nazis …
Studying Controversies
Argumentation occurring in public controversies (large, long-lasting, and complex disagreements) deserve more attention from argumentation theorists than they have yet received, primarily because they offer plentiful opportunity to discover new facts about the contemporary practice of argumentation. Drawing on the polylogue framework (Lewiński and Aakhus 2023) and the cartography of controversy (Venturini and Munk 2022), nine suggestions are offe…
A Normative Pragmatic Inquiry into the Volatility of Norms in Argumentation
Twentieth century innovations in reasoning about health and medicine (randomized clinical trials, systematic reviews, and a growing list of other inventions) have dramatically changed what counts as good argumentation within this domain. Though these new forms are often highly specialized and highly technical, they are gradually becoming “norms of public argumentation” (Zenker, et al., 2024), spreading from esoteric discussion among medical scien…
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