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Narratives of hospice volunteers: Perspectives on death and dying.
(2004)
This study found that hospice volunteers' narratives function to make sense of death, warrant decisions for advanced preparation of their own death, illustrated an attempt to control their own death, transformed their ...
Late night political comedy, candidate image, and inoculation: A unique test of inoculation theory.
(2004)
Additionally, this study assessed the viability of using inoculation treatments to protect against late night political ridicule (monologues and parodies). Previous research beginning in the late 1980s has revealed inoculation ...
Adolescents and communication regarding safer sex behavior.
(2004)
As adolescent pregnancy, childbearing and STD transmission has continued to be a pervasive problem in American society, it has become more and more critical to understand the nuances of teen sexual behavior. Policy makers, ...
Speaking about ghosts (cerita hantu melayu): Malay narratives-in-interaction.
(2004)
This dissertation is divided into two parts. In Part One I discuss the literature associated with narrative to make a case for how narrative influences social reality. I find the monologic view of storytelling problematic ...
The impact of culturally acquired behavioral norms on workplace communication.
(2004)
This study explored cultural diversity influences on the concepts of time and punctuality; allowable limits of expressiveness; kinesics and oculesic cues; request/response time; and ethnic and gender preferences for ...
Two directors performing the work of directing: An ethnographic and conversation analytic inquiry in the direction of pedagogical influence.
(2004)
The data for this study are ethnographic participant/observation and conversation analytic collections from two theatre production processes in an educational theatre program. The intent of the study is to investigate how ...