| Communication Monographs |
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| Volume 78(4), 2011 |
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Caughlin, John P., Mikucki-Enyart, Sylvia L., Middleton, Ashley V., Stone, Anne M., and Brown, Laura E. |
Being open without talking about it: A rhetorical/normative approach to understanding topic avoidance in families after a lung cancer diagnosis. |
409-436 |
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| | The present study uses a rhetorical/normative perspective to examine families' communication and coping in response to a parent's diagnosis of, and eventual death from, lung cancer | |
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interpersonal
health
death
family
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Knobloch, Leanne K., Knobloch-Fedders, Lynne M., and Durbin, C. Emily |
Depressive symptoms and relational uncertainty as predictors of reassurance-seeking and negative feedback-seeking in conversation. |
437-462 |
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| | Integrative interpersonal theory implies that relational uncertainty may play a role in the reassurance-seeking and negative feedback-seeking behavior of people with depressive symptoms | |
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interpersonal
theory
health
conversation
mental health
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Bonito, Joseph A., and Meyers, Renee A. |
Examining functional communication as egocentric or group-centric: Application of a latent group model. |
463-485 |
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| | Functional communication in small groups is generally treated as a medium (i.e., reflecting and explained by individual proclivities) or as constitutive (i.e., interaction has independent effects on outcomes) | |
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small group roles
interpersonal
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Milstein, Tema, Anguiano, Claudia, Sandoval, Jennifer, Chen, Yea-Wen, & Dickinson, Elizabeth |
Communicating a "new" environmental vernacular: A sense of relations-in-place. |
486-510 |
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| | This study focuses on communication as a lens and tool for reinvigorating and empowering marginalized cultural environmental relations | |
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race and ethnicity
ecology
rhetoric
interpersonal
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Rains, Stephen A., and Keating, David M. |
The social dimension of blogging about health: Health blogging, social support, and well-being. |
511-534 |
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| | The study reported here explored the social dimension of health-related blogs by examining blogging as a means to marshal social support and, as a result, achieve some of the health benefits associated with supportive communication | |
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interpersonal
health
competence
social structure
computer
technologies
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Brown, Christopher B. |
Barack Obama as the great man: Communicative constructions of racial transcendence in white-male elite discourses. |
535-556 |
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| | This study examined responses on the potential impact of Barack Obama's presidency from 16 semi-structured interviews with White males in leadership positions in various organizations across the United States | |
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african american issues and civil rights
presidential figures
race and ethnicity
public opinion
semiotic theory
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