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Communication Studies Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The Development, Implementation, and Maintenance of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Through Telepractice in Peru
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)The descriptive study documents the development and implementation of low technology Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) boards in Peru and conducts maintenance sessions through telepractice. The director of ... -
Public Land, Money, and Use: The Rhetorical Calibration of Publics and Place
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)In this thesis, I examine two recent attempts at land transfer, which is the idea that the federal government should pass ownership of its public lands to the states. I contend that recent attempts at land transfer have ... -
On Holocaust Cookbooks: Fourth Generation Jews and the Re-creation of Jewish Food Culture
(University of Kansas, 2018-01-01)Food is essential: to memory, to culture, and to identity. In the introduction to In Memory’s Kitchen, Cara De Silva (1996) argues, “Our personal gastronomic traditions – what we eat, the foods and foodways we associate ... -
Stepfamily Expectations: Expected and Actual Communication between Stepchildren and Stepparents
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This study is grounded in Expectancy Violations Theory and examined the relationships among expectations that stepchildren have for stepparent communicative behaviors, expectation violations, stepparent conflict, and ... -
Older Adults’ Written Accounts of Recent Intergenerational Conflict: Initiating Factors and Management Styles
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)From theoretical perspectives of conflict management and communication accommodation, this study used a content analytic approach to examine older adults’ reports of intergenerational communication in a recent conflict ... -
Barack Obama’s Mass Shooting Eulogies: Tucson, Newtown, and Charleston as moral guideposts for a nation in crisis
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Gun violence constitutes a nation-wide health crisis. Legislative attempts for reform have failed completely at the national level over the past decade. The public response to gun violence, however, has not supported reform. ... -
The development of an instrument to measure nursing interpersonal behavior
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An exploratory study of interpersonal trust between the sexes
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Friendship and communication strategy in interpersonal negotiations
(University of Kansas, 1981) -
Do actions speak louder than words? : an inquiry into incongruent communications
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Perceptions of and responses to the levels of interpersonal conflict and their relationship to cognitive complexity
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“Like a rush of adrenaline that you get from going somewhere special.” A case study analysis of professional development and gendered experiences in the technology industry
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)Gender inequity perpetually exists in U.S. workplaces. While these issues have manifested in a variety of ways (e.g., pay gap, sex segregation, glass ceiling, leave policies, language, etc.), the dominant discourses that ... -
Critical requirements for the oral communication of state trial judges
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Toward a more complete understanding of the social influence process : a social judgment-involvement approach
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An experimental comparison of two concepts of personality
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The 1867 campaign for woman suffrage in Kansas : a study in rhetorical situation
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The effects of expectations, behaviors and beliefs on the interpersonal judgments young people make about the elderly
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Debate community perceptions of the ethicality of evidence use
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Red power : consummatory rhetoric and the functions of criticism
(University of Kansas, 1978)