Dissertations from 2008
Enriching or depleting: an investigation of communication and behavior within the family business, Joyceia Marie Banner
Walden Pond and the performative touristic gaze, Daniel Christopher Bono
When Shakespeare meets Al Gore: imagine interactions, communication competence, and immediacy traditional and online-based distance education, Tammy L. Croghan
One rhizome, two unstoppable blossoms: environmental communication and ecological rhetoric, Kevin James Ells
A house performs, Lisa Flanagan
A rhetoric of existentialism, Zachary Gershberg
The rhetorical myth of the athlete as a moral hero: the implications of steroids in sport and the threatened myth, Karen L. Hartman
From the mountains to the podium: the rhetoric of Fidel Castro, Brent C. Kice
Performing photographs: memory, history, and display, Melanie A. Kitchens
Processes and/of performance: difference, memory, and experimentation, Benjamin Daniel Powell
This house would ethically engage: a critical examination of competitor and coach leadership in National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA) debate, Crystal-Lane Swift
Dissertations from 2007
Toward a new understanding of wisdom: the role of communication on perceptions of wisdom, Jon M. Croghan
Uncomfortable performances: discovering a subversive scenario for rape discourse, Annamaria Ruffino
Methodological lagniappe: a walk in representations of the Red Stick Farmers Market, Jesica Eileen Speed
Theses from 2006
A comparison of dominance and affiliation ratings based on emotional state, sex, and status, Jennifer Bernardi
The discursive practices of chemical discipline, Roger L. Pippin
Jack Kerouac's spontaneous prose: a performance genealogy of the fiction, Justin Thomas Trudeau
Dissertations from 2005
Creating meaning in organizational change: a case in higher education, Kathleen Barnett
Cultural performance of roadside shrines: a poststructural postmodern ethnography, Rebecca Marie Kennerly
The operational aesthetic in the performance of professional wrestling, William P. Lipscomb III
Effects of gender role on the judgment of masculine signs, Joseph C. Mitchell
Re-conceptualizing southern rhetoric: a meta-critical perspective, Christina L. Moss
The effects of sex and context on student's interpretation of teachers' high immediacy messages, Carolyn Hornsby Rester
Verbal and nonverbal immediacy: sex differences and international teaching assistants, Tiwa Saechou
Spalding Gray and the Slippery Slope of confessional performance, David Price Terry
Dissertations from 2004
The discipline and disciplining of Margaret Sanger: US birth control rhetoric in the early twentieth century, C. Wesley Buerkle
Audiating the LSU drumline: an ethnographic performance, Andrew Michael Causey
Flesh and spirit onstage: chronotopes of performance in medieval English theatre, Gregory Lee Cavenaugh
Performance as ministry: an ethnographic study of three Christian Repertory Theatre troupes, Webster Ford Drake
From guerrilla theater to media warfare Abbie Hoffman's riotous revolution in America: a myth, Bruce Eric France, Jr.
Performing masculinities: U.S. representations of the male body in performance art monologues, Darren C. Goins
A performance genealogy of "Etchings of Debutantes", Melanie A. Kitchens
The National D-Day Museum as mystory praxis, David A. Pye
The myth of charismatic leadership and fantasy rhetoric of crypto-charismatic memberships, Shaun Robert Treat
Dissertations from 2003
The effects of message direction and sex differences on the interpretation of workplace gossip, Kristen Marie Berkos
Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed in the Public Speaking and Interpersonal Communication classrooms, Jacqueline D. Burleson
The bardic utterance in situation comedy theme songs, 1960-2000, Joni Melissa Butcher
"You stupid, lazy kid": perceptions of verbal aggressiveness in older adults, Jon M. Croghan
The role of imagined interaction and self-efficacay in psychosocial adjustment to spousal bereavement: a communication perspective, Sherry Greenwood Ford
The means of ignorance: genuine dialogue and a rhetoric of virtue, Daniel Anthony Grano
Will the real Jesus please stand up?: bridging the divide between the Jesus Seminar and its opponents through a Burkeian approach, Carol Melissa Hopson-Sparks
The dual paths of a political movement: convergence and divergence in contemporary conservative public address, Lyman Davis Hunt
Dissertations from 2002
Cognitive Complexity, Transformational Leadership, and Organizational Outcomes, Suzette Plaisance Bryan
The influence of imagined interactions on verbal fluency, Charles Choi
The Bauhaus (per)forms, Lisa Flanagan
Critical performative pedagogy : Augusto Boal's Theatre of the oppressed in the English as a second language classroom, Ross McKeehen Louis
Communication characterizing successful long distance marriages, Andrea Towers Scott
Isleno Decima Singers of Louisiana: an interpretation of performance and event, Danielle Elise Sears
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Activist Advertising: Case Studies of United Colors of Benetton's AIDS -Related Company Promotion., Heidi Jolene Brough
Framing and Counterframing of the Middle East Peace Process in the Arab -Israeli Press: a Comparative Analysis of "Assafir" and "The Jerusalem Post"., Houda Hanna El-koussa
Performativity and Performance: Representing the Tattooed Body., Mindy Elaine Fenske
Oral Poetry in a Literate Culture: a Performance Ethnography of Poetry Slams., Ramon Lavelle Sibley Jr
Some Technical Vocabulary of Rhetorical Invention in the Treatise of Anonymous Seguerianus, Hermogenes' "On Statis", and Book Three of the [Pseudo-]Hermogenic Work "On Invention", Mark Allen Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
The Rhetoric of the Benign Scapegoat: President Reagan and the Federal Government., Stephen Wayne Braden
Rhetoric, Prudence, and the "Morrill Act" of 1862., Jason Brian Munsell
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Powerless Speech: the Effects of Gender, Gendered Intensifiers, and Attitudes Toward Women on Speaker Credibility., Frances E. Brandau-brown
Performing Dracula: a Critical Examination of a Popular Text in Three Sites of Performance., Jonathan Matthew Gray
The Influence of Interpersonal Communication Variables on Group Attraction and Group Communication Satisfaction., Michelle Diane Kirtley
"Playboy"'s First Year: a Rhetorical Construction of Masculine Sexuality., David John Lambkin
The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt: A Novelistic Approach to Decoding the Layers of Meaning in the "Pieced" Social Drama., Louis Edward Myers
Rhetoric and Institutional Environments: the Legitimation of Higher Education in Twentieth Century America., Thomas J. St. antoine
Rhetorical Theory: Discourse Practices of Utopian Communities., Irvin Andreu Wilhite
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
A Rhetoric of Religious Order: The Case of the Promise Keepers., Michael Ellsworth Eidenmuller
Evangelical Communication: Reference Group Membership Influence on Message Interpretation and Public Opinion., Mary Diane Hollems
Rhetoric and Social Struggle: In Search of the Topoi of Violence., Edward Christopher Reilly
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Boris Yeltsin's Ascent to Power: Personae and the Rhetoric of Revolution., Matthew Thomas Althouse
The Florida Chautauqua as Text: Creating and Satisfying a Disposition to Appropriate Cultural Goods in Northwest Florida., Matthew Albert Beemer
Postmodern Messiah: A Critical Ethnography of Elvis Presley as a Site of Performance., Daniel Weaver Heaton
The Compliance-Seeking Process From the Perspective of the Respondent: The Role of Goals in Responses to Requests., Barbara L. Woods
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Performance, Cultural Identity, and Feminist Practice in the Oral History of an African-American Domestic Worker., Elondust Patrick Johnson
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Performing the Community, Telling the Self: Storytelling by Members of a Group Home for Men With Mental Retardation., Sharon Elizabeth Croft
Boal and Theatre of the Oppressed: A Performance-Centered Inquiry of Eating and Body Image., Leigh Anne Howard
Rhetoricizing Habermas: The Restoration of Legitimacy as a Theme in the 1992 Televised Presidential Debates., Kevin Travis Jones
Press Framing of Presidential Crisis Rhetoric in a Post-Cold War World: The Haitian Crisis in 1993., Jim Andrew Kuypers
The Dual Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: The Heroic Narratives of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Malcolm X., Kerry Paul Owens
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
The Rhetoric of the Organizational Saga: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of the Organizational Communication Culture of the Louisiana State Police., Brookie Ann Allphin
Convention Unity Speeches., Lynna L. Cherry
The Rhetoric of Self-Fashioning in the Works of Anna Cora Mowatt., Kelly Shaver Taylor
Communicating With the Elderly: Gender and Contact Differences in Prototypes, Hesitation Phenomena, Proxemics, and Interaction Evaluations., Lynn B. Wellman
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Performance and Organized Labor in Depression America: Community and Contestation. (Volumes I and II)., Kirk Wayne Fuoss
A Performance-Centered Approach to Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony"., Randall Thomas Hill
Disclosure Decisions and Patterns After a Near-Death Experience., Regina M. Hoffman
Personal Narrative: Revealing Self and Reflecting Other., Charla Lee Markham shaw
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
American Civil Religion and the Presidential Rhetoric of Jimmy Carter., Michael James Adee
Jeremy Rifkin Challenges Recombinant DNA Research: A Rhetoric of Heresy., Wiley Michael Futrell
The Rhetoric of Synnationalism: A Model of Foreign Policy Discourse., Ralph A. Hamlett
Theatrical Intervention in the AIDS Crisis: Performance, Politics, and Social Change., Cindy J. Kistenberg
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
A Quest for Legitimacy: Impression Management Strategies Used by an Organization in Crisis., Rachel Harris Caillouet
The Rhetoric of Community Ritual: The Blessing of the Shrimp Fleet at Chauvin, Louisiana., Barbara Elizabeth Gordon
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
The Effects of Imagined Interaction and Planning on Speech Fluency and Message Strategy Selection., Terre Huhn Allen
The Relationship Between Family Communication and Psychosocial Adjustment of Cancer Patients., James Micheal Gotcher
The Epistemic Power of Metaphor: A Rhetorical Model for Homiletics., Rodney Kennedy
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Scientific-Romantic Synthesis in the Popular Scientific Writings of Lewis Thomas., Donald Paul Lee
Narrative and Everyday Experience: Performance Process in the Storytelling of the Swiss Volhynian Mennonites. (Volumes I and II)., John Elmer Mccabe-juhnke
Intrinsic Intertextuality:A Methodology for Analyzing the Seamless Intertext., Karen Sue Mitchell
Relational Aftermath: Accounts of Marital Dissolution to Social Network Members., Linda Malone Pledger