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  • Nonverbal communication and restaurant personnel

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    Drago, Carleen
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    Servers in a small college town were asked to take part in an interview to assess perceptions of their use of nonverbal communication, how they believe nonverbal communication affects tipping behavior, and whether or not they received formal training in nonverbal communication tactics. The study also links nonverbal communication with...
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    interview to assess perceptions of their use of nonverbal communication, how they believe nonverbal

  • Simply Simulation: What a Birth Simulator Says About the Birthing Process

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    Nevin, Fiona K.
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    Modern technology has provided many new opportunities in medicine, one of which is improved learning through simulation. One of the newest incarnations of robotic simulation dolls is the Victoria S2200 produced by Gaumard scientific company. With the recent surge of technological advancement in simulation dolls there has been little research...
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    degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Speech Communication, History of Science, and

  • Forestry & Communication : A Coos Bay Case Study

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    Livingstone, Tasha
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    This thesis combines elements of forestry, interpersonal communication, and rhetoric to describe where residents of Coos Bay and North Bend Oregon obtain information about forests and forest uses, and how they view the credibility of that information. As a qualitative exploratory study, grounded theory methodology was used to develop theme...
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    . Jensen This thesis combines elements of forestry, interpersonal communication, and rhetoric to

  • Erotic Capital and Women’s Online Sexual Marketing

    Creator:
    Perkins, Abby M.
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    The purpose of this paper was to discuss the theory of erotic capital proposed by Catherine Hakim and how this theory affects online advertising done by sex workers. Through analyzing 29 different pages relating to the commercial sex industry, I observed how sexual capital is utilized in marketing strategies and...
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    determine how women’s online marketing of themselves shows the effectiveness of erotic or sexual capital

  • Spousal Communication in the Family Setting (Married with Children)

    Creator:
    Dokken, Cort J.
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    Communication plays an important role in the life of a couple. This study seeks to determine the nature of couple communication. This study compares and contrasts the differences and similarities in communication between childless couples and parenting couples. The material for this study comes from interviewing ten married couples along...
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    Interdisciplinary Studies in the codepartments of Speech Communication, Political Science, and Sociology presented

  • Encoding Accuracy in Interpersonal Relationships : A New Measure of Encoding Ability

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    Raymond, Alyssa M.
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    The ability to accurately convey an intended nonverbal emotional message is critical for competent interpersonal functioning. To examine encoding ability, a replication of Noller’s (1980) study employing content standard methodology was conducted. This method is essentially an acting task where participants are given a hypothetical social scene within which they...
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    messages. Whereas Noller studied marital communications, we extended her method to study communication

  • Perceptions on informal performance feedback in Japanese subsidiary organizations : Japanese supervisors and U. S. subordinates

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    Kinefuchi, Etsuko
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    This study explored perceptions of performance feedback communicated by Japanese supervisors to their U.S. subordinates in Japanese subsidiaries in the U. S. Individual face-to-face interviews were conducted with both Japanese supervisors and U.S. subordinates and their responses were tape-recorded. The purpose of the study was to assess perceptual similarities and...
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    Etsuko Kinefuchi for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Speech Communication

  • High-context and low-context cultures: value system variations for American and Japanese university students and their resultant communication patterns

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    Yamaguchi, Shinobu Yume
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    This exploratory investigation focused on the validity of the concepts of high-context and low-context as a meaningful and powerful construct for examining cultural differences. Specifically, American and Japanese value differences and communication patterns were examined. The study tested the hypotheses that Japanese students would rank high-context group orientation values higher...
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    Studies in co-departments of Speech Communication, Anthropology and Postsecondary Education presented on

  • Disputant storytelling in divorce mediation

    Creator:
    Hansen, Alan R.
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    This paper investigates the nature of disputants' stories within the context of divorce mediation. Tapes and transcripts of actual mediation sessions from three different sources are scrutinized, utilizing a modified form of conversation analysis known as ethnography of speaking. Several themes emerge from this analysis of disputants' stories: the functions...
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    Speech Communication Dean of G uate S understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent

  • Cultural differences and business interaction : an analysis of conflicts between Chinese and American ways of life

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    Chen, Yuejian, 1958-
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    This study uses an anthropological perspective to discuss the cultural differences between Chinese and Americans in business contexts. Through an analysis of case studies related by businesspersons involved in Sino-US trade, and by an analysis of literature on the subject, it describes how cultural differences contribute to the problems and...
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    , material circumstances, the customary way of doing things, nonverbal communications and cultural traits