1. Robin E. Jensen, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . An earlier version of this article was presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Miami, Florida, November 2003. The author wishes to thank the editor, three anonymous reviewers, Cara A. Finnegan, Kristen Harrison, Stephen J. Hartnett, Daniel J. O'Keefe, and members of her reading group for their generous feedback on earlier versions of this essay.