This collection represents a sample of faculty work from the Department of Communication Studies. Communication Studies examines the human, social, political, institutional, and mediated dimensions of human communication practices and processes in addition to how these communication practices and processes construct and reconstruct meanings, enable and constrain social interaction, and interact with institutional structures and cultural, historical, and political forces.

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Submissions from 2016

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Social Networking Site Behaviors Across the Relational Lifespan: Measurement and Association With Relationship Escalation and De-escalation, Nicholas Brody, Leah E. LeFebvre, and Kate G. Blackburn

Submissions from 2014

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The I’s, We’s, And She/he’s Of Breakups: Public And Private Pronoun Usage In Relationship Dissolution Accounts, Kate Blackburn, Nicholas P. Brody, and Leah Lefebvre

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Intentions to hide and unfriend Facebook connections based on perceptions of sender attractiveness and status updates, Nicholas Brody and Jorge Peña

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Postcolonial Rhetorics of Violence, Derek Buescher

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The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment: Affective Memory And Race Trauma, A. Susan Owen and Peter Ehrenhaus

Submissions from 2013

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A dimensional approach to characterizing on-again/off-again dating relationships, Nicholas Brody, René M. Dailey, Borae Jin, and Andrea A. McCracken

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Charting changes in commitment: Trajectories of on-again/off-again relationships, Nick Brody, René M. Dailey, Leah LeFebvre, and Brittani Crook

Submissions from 2012

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Lysander Spooner’s The Unconstitutionality of Slavery: A Case Study in Constitutional Hermeneutics, Ethical Argument, and Practical Reason, James Jasinski

Submissions from 2011

Visualizing Heretical Argument: The Incongruent Imagery of Pfc. Jessica Lynch, Derek Buescher

Visualizing Heretical Argument: The Incongruent Imagery Of Pfc. Jessica Lynch, Derek Buescher and Kent Ono

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The more things change, the more they stay the same: The role of ICTs in work and family connections, Renee Houston and P. Edley

City of Tacoma Housing First, Renee Houston and Carolyn Weisz

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Expertise, Criticism and Holocaust Memory in Cinema, A. Susan Owen

Submissions from 2010

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Constructing Family: A Typology Of Voluntary Kin, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Betsy Wackernagel Bach, Leslie A. Baxter, Rebecca Diverniero, Joshua R. Hammonds, Angela M. Hosek, Erin K. Willer, and Bianca M. Wolf

Instructor’s Resource Manual for Communicating: A Social, Career and Cultural Focus, Nicholas Brody

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Educational Convergences: The Potential Relationships Between Parliamentary and Policy Debate Communities, Derek Buescher

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Parental Rule Socialization For Preventive Health And Adolescent Rule Compliance, Carma L. Bylund, Leslie A. Baxter, Rebecca S. Imes, and Bianca M. Wolf

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Exemplifying Collaborative Autoethnographic Practice via Shared Stories of Mothering, Renee Houston, Patricia Geist-Martin, Lisa Gates, Liesbeth Wiering, Erika Kirby, Anne Lilly, and Juan Moreno

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Analyzing Constitutive Rhetorics: The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the "Principles of ‘98", James Jasinski and Jennifer Mercieca

Submissions from 2009

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lts gt 2gthr l8r: Text messaging as a relational maintenance tool, Nicholas Brody, Charee M. Mooney, Stacy A. Westerman, and Patrick G. McDonald

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Being homeless and gay or lesbian is a difficult combination: An invisible population, Renee Houston

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Time, Space, and Generic Reconstitution: Martin Luther King’s ‘A Time to Break Silence’ as Radical Jeremiad, James Jasinski and John Murphy

Submissions from 2008

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Review of: The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Nomination Process by Trevor Parry-Giles, James Jasinski

Submissions from 2007

The Content Of Citizenship, Derek Buescher and Kent Ono

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Consituting Antebellum African Identity: Resistance, Violence, and Masculinity in Henry Highland Garnet's (1843) 'Address to the Slaves', James Jasinski

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Constituting Antebellum African American Identity: Resistance, Violence, And Masculinity In Henry Highland Garnet's (1843) 'address To The Slaves.', James Jasinski

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Bad Girls: Culture Politics and Media Representations of Transgressive Women, A. Susan Owen, Sarah R. Stein, and Leah R. Vande Berg

Submissions from 2006

The Lyceum And Public Culture In The Nineteenth-century United States, James Jasinski

Forum: Musings On The Place And Possibility Of A Moral Voice In The Academy, A. Susan Owen

Submissions from 2005

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Chapter 13: Revealing The Wizard Behind The Curtain The Conversation Continues, Deborah L. Flick, Renée Houston, and Diane M. Martin

Submissions from 2004

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Race Lynching And Christian Evangelicalism: Performances Of Faith, Peter Ehrenhaus and A. Susan Owen

Picturing Poverty: Print Culture And Fsa Photographs (book), A. Susan Owen

Submissions from 2003

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What Does Rhetorical Theory Do? And Is That A Stupid Question?, Gerard Hauser, Rosa Eberly, Meredith A. Cargill, Erik Doxtader, Carlnita P. Greene, Marouf Hasian Jr., James Jasinski, William Keith, Lenore Langsdorf, Kathryn Northcut, Michael Phillips, Anne Pym, and Philippe-joseph Salazar

In The Mask Of Thin Air: Intragroup And Intergroup Communication During The Mt. Everest Disaster, Renée Houston

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Idioms of Prudence in Three Antebellum Controversies: Revolution, Constitution, and Slavery, James Jasinski

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Disciplining 'sextext': Queers, Fears, And Communication Studies, A. Susan Owen

Submissions from 2002

Eloquence Is Power: Oratory And Performance In Early America, James Jasinski

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Review of: eloquence is power: Oratory and Performance in Early America by Sandra Gustafson, James Jasinski

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Book Reviews, James Jasinski, Richard Vatz, Lee Weinberg, Catherine Langford, Kent Ono, and Christina Morus

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Memory, War And American Identity: Saving Private Ryan As Cinematic Jeremiad, A. Susan Owen

Submissions from 2001

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Sourcebook on Rhetoric: Key Concepts in Contemporary Rhetorical Studies, James Jasinski

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The Status of Theory and Method in Rhetorical Criticism, James Jasinski

Submissions from 2000

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Constructing American Identity/Identities, James Jasinski

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Review of: The Rhetorical Career of César Chávez by John C. Hammerback and Richard J. Jensen, A. Susan Owen

Submissions from 1999

The Great War As Civil War: Rhetorics Of Memory In Gone With The Wind, A. Susan Owen

Submissions from 1998

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Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, And The Cultivation Of Solidarity., James Jasinski

Submissions from 1997

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Rearticulating history through epideictic discourse: Frederick Douglass's 'the meaning of the fourth of July to the negro, James Jasinski

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Review of: Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form by Priscilla Wald, James Jasinski

Learning To Listen: Critical Reflections On "voices", A. Susan Owen

Submissions from 1996

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Contraception And Clinical Science: The Place Of Women In Reproductive Technology, A. Susan Owen and Sally A. Caudill

Submissions from 1995

Review of: Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Character by Eugene Garver, James Jasinski

Review of: Rhetorical Movements: Essays in Honor of Leland Griffin, ed. David Zarefsky, James Jasinski

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The forms and limits of prudence in Henry Clay's (1850) defense of the compromise measures, James Jasinski

Submissions from 1994

Review of: Landmark Essays in American Public Address, ed. Martin J. Medhurst, James Jasinski

Review of: Landmark Essays in Rhetorical Criticism, ed. Tomas W. Benson, James Jasinski

Submissions from 1993

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Beyond the Culture Wars: An Agenda for Research on Communication and Culture, James Jasinski and Dennis K. Davis

Animating A Critical Rhetoric: On The Feeding Habits Of American Empire, A. Susan Owen and Peter Ehrenhaus

Submissions from 1992

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Antithesis and Oxymoron: Ronald Reagan's Figurative Rhetorical Structure, James Jasinski

Review of: Cultural Legacies of Vietnam: Uses of the Past in the Present, eds. Richard Morris and peter Ehrenhaus, James Jasinski

Submissions from 1991

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Argument, Judgment, and the Problem of Alienation, James Jasinski

Submissions from 1990

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An Exploration of Form and Force in Rhetoric and Argumentation, James Jasinski

Submissions from 1989

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rhetorical force and the unity of political theory and argumentation practice in madison's federalist #10, James Jasinski

Submissions from 1988

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Ideology, Reflection, and Alienation in Rhetorical and Argumentative Practice, James Jasinski

Submissions from 1987

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liberty and power in nineteenth-century public argument: a foucauldian analysis of jacksonian rhetoric, James Jasinski