Craig O Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 655494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig O Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | O Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART C O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Old Dominion University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6843-795X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Return to Teamsterville
As the places of monuments are reconsidered today in light of social justice concerns, the authors revisit a “monument” of language and social interaction (LSI) research. Philipsen’s foundational work published nearly 50 years ago, “Speaking ‘Like a Man’ in Teamsterville,” thus becomes a starting point for dialogue among four scholars with diverse views on the critical voice in ethnography of communication research. When read today, the homophobi…
STEM Identities
Education and psychology research has established STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) identities as an important factor in explaining student persistence in STEM fields. Few studies in social psychology of language or communication have investigated STEM identities, despite the fundamentally communicative nature of identity. Identity talk produced in semi-structured interviews with undergraduate engineering majors ( N = 16) a…
Populist linguistic tone in recent U.S. presidential campaign discourse
This study analyzed the tone of public campaign remarks of right- and left-wing populist (Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, respectively) and right and left-wing non-populist (Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton, respectively) U.S. presidential candidates using DICTION 7.0. Findings suggest that populists tended to use a linguistic tone that is high in pessimism, group abstractness, and exclusion. Pessimism and group abstractness were positively assoc…
Effects of gender and verbal aggression on perceptions of U.S. political speakers
Two experiments tested whether male and female political speakers in the United States are judged differently when they use verbal attacks. Participants read eight short excerpts of political speeches, half of which contained character and competence attacks (the other half without such attacks), and half of which were attributed to a female speaker (the other half a male speaker), and rated these in terms of agreement with the message, and perce…
Debating LGBT Workplace Protections in the Bible Belt
This article reports a case study of the legislative and media discourse surrounding the addition of sexual orientation and gender identity language to the employment nondiscrimination ordinance of a city in the heart of the Bible Belt. The purpose of the study is to uncover how different identities were constructed and contested at city council meetings and in the news media on the way to passing legal protection for LGBT city employees in a reg…
Effects of Verbal Aggression and Party Identification Bias on Perceptions of Political Speakers
Two experiments investigated the effects of verbal aggression, specifically character and competence attacks, on perceptions of political speakers. Verbally aggressive political speakers were perceived as less communicatively appropriate and credible than nonaggressive speakers, and were less likely to win agreement with their messages. Some evidence was found that perceptions were biased in favor of those who share a political party identificati…
Strategies of verbal irony in visual satire
This paper analyzes
The Influence of News Frames and Science Background on Attributions About Embryonic and Adult Stem Cell Research
This study investigated effects of frames, science background, and stem cell source on attributions of ethicality, credibility, and usefulness of stem cell research. Framing did not influence perceptions of ethicality, but science majors tended to perceive embryonic research to be more ethical than did nonscience majors. Nonscience majors perceived stem cell research to be less credible than did science majors in an Economic Prospects frame. Scie…
Communication Accommodation in Instant Messaging
Research on communication accommodation theory in online communication has documented convergence primarily in terms of lexical variables. This article presents the results of two studies that investigate convergence in structural variables in instant messaging (IM) conversations. Study 1 examines zero-history, intragroup dyads participating in a task-based IM conversation. Study 2 examines IM conversations between friends and contrasts social an…
Mediated Intergroup Conflict
Using an intergroup communication framework, this article examines how a newspaper in southeastern Virginia discursively constructs the “illegal immigrant” as a metonym for Latino immigrants. This mixed methods study traces the development of this newspaper discourse about illegal immigrants from1994 to 2006 using quantitative lexical analysis. It then shows how two local news events further instantiate an illegal immigrant metonymy influencing p…
Socioscientific Controversies
This paper describes a theoretical and methodological framework from critical discourse analysis for the study of the rhetoric of socioscientific controversies. The approach, based on the work of NormanFairclough (1992), describes the construction of such controversies in terms of chains of communicative events and particularly attends to intertextuality and interdiscursivity within and across orders of discourse. This framework is situated withi…
Beliefs About Science and News Frames in Audience Evaluations of Embryonic and Adult Stem Cell Research
This study investigates the influence of demographic variables, beliefs about science, and news frames on ratings of ethics, credibility, and usefulness of embryonic and adult stem cell research. Framing affected only ratings of ethics, in interaction with type of stem cell, with a large difference between embryonic and adult stem cells in a political conflict frame and no difference in a scientific progress frame. Belief that science is neutral …
Social cognition and discourse processing goals in the analysis of `ex-gay' rhetoric
This article reports a critical discourse analysis of a series of newspaper advertisements advocating `ex-gay' ministries and `reparative therapy' for homosexuality — interventions designed to `treat' homosexuality through prayer or psychoanalysis. These ads, part of an effort to make `ex-gay' discourse more central to the public communication strategies of conservative, anti-gay political groups, feature both narrative and statistical arguments …
Conversational Argumentation in Decision Making
This study investigates cultural and communication medium effects on conversational argumentation in a decision-making context. Chinese and U.S. participants worked in pairs on two decision-making tasks via face-to-face (FtF) and instant messaging (IM). The analyses showed that Chinese participants tended to engage in potentially more complex argumentation, whereas U.S. Argumentation in IM tended to be more direct than in FtF interactions. There …
The Montana Model
Robin Wooffitt , Conversation analysis and discourse analysis
Robin Wooffitt , Conversation analysis and discourse analysis: A comparative and critical introduction . London: Sage, 2005. Pp. ix, 234. Hb $69.95, Pb $31.95. Robin Wooffitt aims to answer a question in his new book: “Analytically, what is the best way to understand everyday communicative activities?” (2). His answer: “Conversation analysis offers the most sophisticated and robust account of language in action” (2). The remainder of the book pro…
Atlas of the Central Rockies Ecosystem
Mediated Intergroup Conflict
Using an intergroup communication framework, this article examines how a newspaper in southeastern Virginia discursively constructs the “illegal immigrant” as a metonym for Latino immigrants. This mixed methods study traces the development of this newspaper discourse about illegal immigrants from1994 to 2006 using quantitative lexical analysis. It then shows how two local news events further instantiate an illegal immigrant metonymy influencing p…
Communication Accommodation in Instant Messaging
Research on communication accommodation theory in online communication has documented convergence primarily in terms of lexical variables. This article presents the results of two studies that investigate convergence in structural variables in instant messaging (IM) conversations. Study 1 examines zero-history, intragroup dyads participating in a task-based IM conversation. Study 2 examines IM conversations between friends and contrasts social an…
Strategies of verbal irony in visual satire
This paper analyzes
Beliefs About Science and News Frames in Audience Evaluations of Embryonic and Adult Stem Cell Research
This study investigates the influence of demographic variables, beliefs about science, and news frames on ratings of ethics, credibility, and usefulness of embryonic and adult stem cell research. Framing affected only ratings of ethics, in interaction with type of stem cell, with a large difference between embryonic and adult stem cells in a political conflict frame and no difference in a scientific progress frame. Belief that science is neutral …
Socioscientific Controversies
This paper describes a theoretical and methodological framework from critical discourse analysis for the study of the rhetoric of socioscientific controversies. The approach, based on the work of NormanFairclough (1992), describes the construction of such controversies in terms of chains of communicative events and particularly attends to intertextuality and interdiscursivity within and across orders of discourse. This framework is situated withi…
Effects of Verbal Aggression and Party Identification Bias on Perceptions of Political Speakers
Two experiments investigated the effects of verbal aggression, specifically character and competence attacks, on perceptions of political speakers. Verbally aggressive political speakers were perceived as less communicatively appropriate and credible than nonaggressive speakers, and were less likely to win agreement with their messages. Some evidence was found that perceptions were biased in favor of those who share a political party identificati…
Social cognition and discourse processing goals in the analysis of `ex-gay' rhetoric
This article reports a critical discourse analysis of a series of newspaper advertisements advocating `ex-gay' ministries and `reparative therapy' for homosexuality — interventions designed to `treat' homosexuality through prayer or psychoanalysis. These ads, part of an effort to make `ex-gay' discourse more central to the public communication strategies of conservative, anti-gay political groups, feature both narrative and statistical arguments …
The Influence of News Frames and Science Background on Attributions About Embryonic and Adult Stem Cell Research
This study investigated effects of frames, science background, and stem cell source on attributions of ethicality, credibility, and usefulness of stem cell research. Framing did not influence perceptions of ethicality, but science majors tended to perceive embryonic research to be more ethical than did nonscience majors. Nonscience majors perceived stem cell research to be less credible than did science majors in an Economic Prospects frame. Scie…
Debating LGBT Workplace Protections in the Bible Belt
This article reports a case study of the legislative and media discourse surrounding the addition of sexual orientation and gender identity language to the employment nondiscrimination ordinance of a city in the heart of the Bible Belt. The purpose of the study is to uncover how different identities were constructed and contested at city council meetings and in the news media on the way to passing legal protection for LGBT city employees in a reg…
Conversational Argumentation in Decision Making
This study investigates cultural and communication medium effects on conversational argumentation in a decision-making context. Chinese and U.S. participants worked in pairs on two decision-making tasks via face-to-face (FtF) and instant messaging (IM). The analyses showed that Chinese participants tended to engage in potentially more complex argumentation, whereas U.S. Argumentation in IM tended to be more direct than in FtF interactions. There …
Atlas of the Central Rockies Ecosystem
The Montana Model
Robin Wooffitt , Conversation analysis and discourse analysis
Robin Wooffitt , Conversation analysis and discourse analysis: A comparative and critical introduction . London: Sage, 2005. Pp. ix, 234. Hb $69.95, Pb $31.95. Robin Wooffitt aims to answer a question in his new book: “Analytically, what is the best way to understand everyday communicative activities?” (2). His answer: “Conversation analysis offers the most sophisticated and robust account of language in action” (2). The remainder of the book pro…
Conversational Argumentation in Decision Making
This study investigates cultural and communication medium effects on conversational argumentation in a decision-making context. Chinese and U.S. participants worked in pairs on two decision-making tasks via face-to-face (FtF) and instant messaging (IM). The analyses showed that Chinese participants tended to engage in potentially more complex argumentation, whereas U.S. Argumentation in IM tended to be more direct than in FtF interactions. There …
Social cognition and discourse processing goals in the analysis of `ex-gay' rhetoric
This article reports a critical discourse analysis of a series of newspaper advertisements advocating `ex-gay' ministries and `reparative therapy' for homosexuality — interventions designed to `treat' homosexuality through prayer or psychoanalysis. These ads, part of an effort to make `ex-gay' discourse more central to the public communication strategies of conservative, anti-gay political groups, feature both narrative and statistical arguments …
Socioscientific Controversies
This paper describes a theoretical and methodological framework from critical discourse analysis for the study of the rhetoric of socioscientific controversies. The approach, based on the work of NormanFairclough (1992), describes the construction of such controversies in terms of chains of communicative events and particularly attends to intertextuality and interdiscursivity within and across orders of discourse. This framework is situated withi…
Beliefs About Science and News Frames in Audience Evaluations of Embryonic and Adult Stem Cell Research
This study investigates the influence of demographic variables, beliefs about science, and news frames on ratings of ethics, credibility, and usefulness of embryonic and adult stem cell research. Framing affected only ratings of ethics, in interaction with type of stem cell, with a large difference between embryonic and adult stem cells in a political conflict frame and no difference in a scientific progress frame. Belief that science is neutral …
Mediated Intergroup Conflict
Using an intergroup communication framework, this article examines how a newspaper in southeastern Virginia discursively constructs the “illegal immigrant” as a metonym for Latino immigrants. This mixed methods study traces the development of this newspaper discourse about illegal immigrants from1994 to 2006 using quantitative lexical analysis. It then shows how two local news events further instantiate an illegal immigrant metonymy influencing p…
Strategies of verbal irony in visual satire
This paper analyzes
The Influence of News Frames and Science Background on Attributions About Embryonic and Adult Stem Cell Research
This study investigated effects of frames, science background, and stem cell source on attributions of ethicality, credibility, and usefulness of stem cell research. Framing did not influence perceptions of ethicality, but science majors tended to perceive embryonic research to be more ethical than did nonscience majors. Nonscience majors perceived stem cell research to be less credible than did science majors in an Economic Prospects frame. Scie…
Communication Accommodation in Instant Messaging
Research on communication accommodation theory in online communication has documented convergence primarily in terms of lexical variables. This article presents the results of two studies that investigate convergence in structural variables in instant messaging (IM) conversations. Study 1 examines zero-history, intragroup dyads participating in a task-based IM conversation. Study 2 examines IM conversations between friends and contrasts social an…
Effects of Verbal Aggression and Party Identification Bias on Perceptions of Political Speakers
Two experiments investigated the effects of verbal aggression, specifically character and competence attacks, on perceptions of political speakers. Verbally aggressive political speakers were perceived as less communicatively appropriate and credible than nonaggressive speakers, and were less likely to win agreement with their messages. Some evidence was found that perceptions were biased in favor of those who share a political party identificati…
Debating LGBT Workplace Protections in the Bible Belt
This article reports a case study of the legislative and media discourse surrounding the addition of sexual orientation and gender identity language to the employment nondiscrimination ordinance of a city in the heart of the Bible Belt. The purpose of the study is to uncover how different identities were constructed and contested at city council meetings and in the news media on the way to passing legal protection for LGBT city employees in a reg…
Effects of gender and verbal aggression on perceptions of U.S. political speakers
Two experiments tested whether male and female political speakers in the United States are judged differently when they use verbal attacks. Participants read eight short excerpts of political speeches, half of which contained character and competence attacks (the other half without such attacks), and half of which were attributed to a female speaker (the other half a male speaker), and rated these in terms of agreement with the message, and perce…
Populist linguistic tone in recent U.S. presidential campaign discourse
This study analyzed the tone of public campaign remarks of right- and left-wing populist (Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, respectively) and right and left-wing non-populist (Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton, respectively) U.S. presidential candidates using DICTION 7.0. Findings suggest that populists tended to use a linguistic tone that is high in pessimism, group abstractness, and exclusion. Pessimism and group abstractness were positively assoc…
Return to Teamsterville
As the places of monuments are reconsidered today in light of social justice concerns, the authors revisit a “monument” of language and social interaction (LSI) research. Philipsen’s foundational work published nearly 50 years ago, “Speaking ‘Like a Man’ in Teamsterville,” thus becomes a starting point for dialogue among four scholars with diverse views on the critical voice in ethnography of communication research. When read today, the homophobi…
STEM Identities
Education and psychology research has established STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) identities as an important factor in explaining student persistence in STEM fields. Few studies in social psychology of language or communication have investigated STEM identities, despite the fundamentally communicative nature of identity. Identity talk produced in semi-structured interviews with undergraduate engineering majors ( N = 16) a…
Psychology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)