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COMMUNICATION ABSTRACTS Vol. 24, No. 6, December 2001 Contents ABSTRACTS 743 Communication Processes 750 Interpersonal Communication and Relations 755 Economics and Communication 758 Communication, Culture, and Society 771 Education and Communication 777 Health Communication 794 Political Communication 811 Communication, Regulation, and the Law 821 Organizational Communication 827 Public Relations 827 Advertising, Marketing, and Consumer Behavior 830 Mass Media 841 Journalism and News Media 853 Popular Culture and the Media 855 Communication and Information Technology 858 Telecommunications 860 Communication Theory and Research 866 BRIEFLY NOTED 874 SUBJECT INDEX 883 CUMULATIVE AUTHOR INDEX 900 CUMULATIVE SUBJECT INDEX A list of the periodicals abstracted in COMMUNICATION ABSTRACTS is published in the No. 5 (October) issue of each volume. This list is updated annually. 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Please specify name of journal. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Communication Abstracts, c/o 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. 743 Communication Abstracts COMMUNICATION PROCESSES 1648 Bauer, L. and Renouf, A. A corpus-based study of compounding in English. Journal of English Linguistics 29(2):101-123, June 2001. LANGUAGE USE. LINGUISTICS. NEWSPAPERS. It is long established that corpus-based studies force the linguist-analyst to come face-to-face with a number of phenomena that might easily be overlooked in an armchair-type study. In this article, the authors demonstrate the validity of this truism once again in a study of English compounding patterns. The authors report in this paper on a study of word-formation patterns in words from a large corpus of British newspaper English. In this article, the authors consider only new compound forma- tions, and they show that considering real data can cause problems for the theoretician of word-formation and for the descriptive grammarian alike. Not only do they report on patterns that are not described in the major handbooks but they show that some of the patterns that are being used productively in the English of the early 1990s break principles that are laid down as absolute in some of the theoretical works. 1649 Boone, R. T. and Cunningham, J. G. Children’s expression of emotional meaning in musicthrough expressive body movement. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 25(1):21-41, Spring 2001. CHILDREN. EMOTION. MUSIC RESEARCH. NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR. Recent research has demonstrated that preschool children can decode emotional meaning in expressive body movement; however, to date, no research has considered preschool children’s ability to encode emotional meaning in this media. This study investigated children who were 4 (N = 23) and 5 (N = 24) years of age and looked at their ability to encode the emotional meaning of an accompanying music segment by moving a teddy bear using previously modeled expressive movements to indicate one of four target emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, or fear). Adult judges visually cat- egorized the silent videotaped expressive movement performances by children of both ages with greater than chance level accuracy. In addition, accuracy in categoriz- ing the emotion being expressed varied as a function of age of child and emotion. A subsequent cue analysis revealed that children as young as age 4 were systematically varying their expressive movements with respect to force, rotation, shifts in move- ment pattern, tempo, and upward movement in the process of emotional communica- tion. The theoretical significance of such encoding ability is discussed with respect to children’s nonverbal skills and the communication of emotion. 1650 Cargile, A. C. and Bradac, J. J. Attitude toward language: a review of speaker-evalua- tion research and a general process model. Gudykunst, W. B., ed. Communication Yearbook 25. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001, pp. 347-382. $125.00/$70.00. ATTITUDE FORMATION. LANGUAGE. LINGUISTICS. Language attitudes are typically inferred from hearers’ evaluative reactions to speech variations. Although they are central to human communication, their social scientific study has been reported mainly in journals outside of the communication 744 Communication Abstracts discipline. This chapter first reviews the multidisciplinary work in the area that has looked to evaluations of speakers