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A phenomenology of intercultural communication /
(1997)
The present dissertation has two major purposes. The first is to examine the origin of intercultural communication as an independent academic field cultivated in the US. In order to carry out this task, this study employs ...
Mother and special education preschool teacher perceptions of the communicative competence of children with severe, multiple disabilities.
(1997)
Early childhood special education teachers who perceive children's behaviors as communications respond accordingly. Mothers and teachers respond to perceived child behaviors as communications when they contingently respond ...
Applying the ecological perspective to stereotypes: An investigation of older adult stereotypes as a function of interaction and context.
(1997)
Findings from this dissertation support all hypotheses. A significant difference was detected in younger adults' perceptions of attitudes associated with older adults. Older adults in an interactive context were rated more ...
Speaking about death: An ethnography of speaking, a study of a community hospice.
(1998)
This study of communication and health care focuses on how hospice medical personnel and their terminally ill patients talk about death and dying. It is a qualitative ethnographic study of a community hospice. The issues ...
Personalizing the risk of AIDS: Investigating the attitudes, communication and behavior of people living with HIV.
(1999)
Results of this study indicate that prior to infection, HIV positive heterosexuals reported having similar safer sexual beliefs, attitudes, communication, and behaviors to those not infected with virus. Specifically, ...
An examination of factors influencing United States student perceptions of native and non-native United States teacher effectiveness.
(1998)
Future research directions for integrating intercultural communication and intracultural communication concerns are discussed. Implications for training non-native U.S. instructors and developing future programs to enable ...