The core concern of this paper is to explore the following questions. What are the conventions and foundations of communication research in Taiwan? Does Taiwan's communication research undergo any paradigm shift? Finally, what are these paradigms? Using 690 projects funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan from 1996 to 2009 as a research sample, this paper draws the profile of communication research in Taiwan and compares it to the research findings of a similar study conducted in 2000. In the 2000 paper, 153 projects funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan from 1984 to 1999 were analyzed.