Communication Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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How Durable Is It? A Contextualized Interpretation of Fiat in Policy Debate
(The Forensics File, 2014-02) -
The Rise and Fall of a Mechanical Rhetoric, or, What Grain Elevators Teach us About Postmodernism
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Learning with invisible others: Perceptions of online presence and their relationship to cognitive and affective learning
(International Forum of Educational Technology and Society, 2005-01-01)is study investigated the relationship between student perceptions of others in an online class and both affective and cognitive learning outcomes. Data were gathered from student survey responses and instructor evaluation ... -
Persuasive Ethopoeia in Dionysius's Lysias
(University of California Press, 2013-11-01)Dionysius of Halicarnassus's account of ethopoeia at Lysias 8 is often cited as evidence of Lysias mastery of character portrayal, but the passage itself has received little in-depth analysis. As a consequence, Dionysius's ... -
Put Down that Phone and Talk to Me: Understanding the Roles of Mobile Phone Norm Adherence and Similarity in Relationships
(Sage Publications, 2014-05-01)This study uses co-orientation theory to examine the impact of mobile phone use on relational quality across three co-present contexts. It investigates the relationship between perceived similarity, actual similarity, and ... -
Becoming-Music, Becoming-Intimate, Becoming-Imperceptible: Toward A Pragmatic Deleuzo-Guattarian Musicology
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Governing Codes: Gender, Metaphor, and Political Identity. By Karrin Vasby Anderson and Kristina Horn Sheeler.
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Rev. Governing Codes: Gender, Metaphor, and Political Identity
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Ghosting Authenticity: Characterization in Corporate Speechwriting
(Sage, 2011-04)One of the most distinctive stylistic virtues of speechwriting is characterization, the art of capturing a client’s voice in a believable and engaging manner. This article examines characterization in the context of corporate ... -
Writing for the Ear: Strengthening Oral Style in Manuscript Speeches
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How Context Matters: Predicting Men's Homophobic Slang Use
(SAGE Choice, 2012)This manuscript reports two experiments exploring heterosexual men’s use of homophobic slang in social contexts, varied by sex-ratio. Study 1 (N = 127) experimentally demonstrated that compared to a mixed-sex audience, ... -
Affinity Through Instant Messaging
(Northwest Communication Association, 2012)The present manuscript explores affinity seeking, testing, and signaling in initial interactions of opposite-sex strangers using instant messaging. Sixty dyads (N = 120) interacted for 20 minutes and participants identified ... -
Couples Who Laugh Together A Coorientation Approach to Positive Humor Use in Relationships
(2005-11)This investigation of public and private positive humor use in long-term relationships suggests that the value of humor depends upon where it is used and who uses it. For men, relational satisfaction is positively associated ... -
‘We were just a group of guys who liked to have a good time together’: Former fraternity members looking back on fraternity life
(2006-11)The impact on fraternity membership on young men’s friendships is explored through in-depth interviews of 23 former fraternity members. Men’s friendships are explored in relation to the dyadic and structural components of ... -
Beauty and the Flirt: Male Physical Attractiveness and Approaches to Relationship Initiation
(2008-05)This multi-study investigation explored how women evaluate men’s approach strategies. In Study 1, 330 participants generated 546 verbal strategies used in courtship initiation. Strategies were rated on three dimensions ... -
The Meanings of Kansas: Rhetoric, Regions, and Counter Regions
(Taylor and Francis, 2012-06)This essay uses the Kansas reception of Truman Capote's 1966 In Cold Blood to reflect on processes of regionalism and resistance. Noting that Capote and In Cold Blood were articulated quite differently in different portions ... -
Jimmy Swaggart's Secular Confession
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2009)Following the exposure of televangelist Jimmy Swaggart’s illicit rendezvous with a New Orleans prostitute, the Assemblies of God simultaneously orchestrated a massive attempt to silence those who would discuss the tryst ... -
The ‘Shocking Story’ of Emmett Till and the Politics of Public Confession
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2008-05)In 1955, journalist William Bradford Huie interviewed Emmett Till’s killers and published their confession in Look magazine. Entitled "The Shocking Story of Approved Murder in Mississippi," Huie’s tale dominated the ... -
Augustine and the "Chair of Lies": Rhetoric in The Confessions
(University of California Press, 2010)Augustine's highly dramatized resignation as a professor of rhetoric in Book Nine of The Confessions has caused a number of hermeneutic problems for scholars seeking to claim Augustine as an important part of rhetorical ... -
Stanton's 'Solitude of Self' as Public Confession
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010-06)Elizabeth Cady Stanton opened her now famous “Solitude of Self” by asserting her desire to make manifest the “individuality of each human soul.” Using Stanton’s attempt to display the human soul as a case study, I consider ...