Comprehending speaker meaning -- Understanding family communication patterns and family functioning: the role of conversation orientation and conformity orientation -- Affection in interpersonal relationships: not just a fond and tender feeling -- Audience activity and passivity -- The political role and influence of business organizations: a communication perspective -- Emotional intelligence as organizational communication -- Professionalism and social responsibility: foundations of public relations ethics -- Climate of opinion, Kuuki and democracy -- Ideology and the study of identity in interethnic communication -- Telehealth, managed care and patient-physician: communication: twenty-first century interface -- Lifespan communication