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Culture, politics and television: A cross-cultural comparative study of Korean and United States televised presidential debates.
(2000)
This dissertation treats televised presidential debates as a mirror of culture. However, the study sees the televised presidential debate as a traditionally Western or American political event. The televised presidential ...
Being an Indian among Indians /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1985)
In order to address the phenomenon of Indianness a qualitative-ethnographic methodology was employed which involved participant observation. This entails a heavy dependence on inductive procedures which contrast with an a ...
Embodiment, technology and communication: A phenomenological exploration of communication in the technological milieu.
(2002)
Our potential for communication depends on a mutational characteristic of the consciousness structure as embodied, and not on the conscious subject as claimed by the objectivistic- or subjectivistic-biased theories that ...
The influence of age difference in marriage on longevity.
(1981)
The simplest and most economical analysis was by Chi square. The Chi square statistic presented opportunities to assess significance for each cell separately, as well as, for columns, rows, and for the entire table. Only ...
Adaptation versus fusion theory in the experience of returned LDS missionaries.
(2002)
This dissertation investigates the outcomes of theory-making, as well as many underlying assumptions surrounding intercultural contact. It does this by examining two competing intercultural theories, Kim's Adaptation Theory ...
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 ...
The built environment as communication: Totality, alterity, and dissociation in urban and suburban spaces.
(2003)
This study of the contemporary American built environment works applies several concepts in a semiotic study aimed at understanding the values presented in the built environment. In particular Kramer's theory of dissociation, ...