Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Framing Race and Blame in the Media: A Case Study on the Chapel Hill Shooting, Sara Abdullatif Galadari
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
"First"-Matters: Projecting the Displacement of Responses to Questions in the Context of Presidential Primary-Campaign Debates, Kristella Marie Montiegel
Influence of the Presidential Inaugural Address on Audience Perceptions of Candidate Image and the State of the Nation, Kyle Alexander Rush
Newspaper Construction of Homelessness in Western United States Cities, Charlie Allan Sheese
Investigating Cable: the Potential and Actual Value of PEG & Franchise Fees, Duncan Chaz Stewart
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Gender Bias and the Evaluation of Players: Voice and Gender in Narrated Gameplay Videos, Robin April Crowell
Is Scholarship Advancing?: An Analysis of Fifteen Years of Framing Research, Joseph Zachary Provencher
Narratives of Native American Women and Tribal Courts: the Framing of the Violence Against Women Act of 2013 in Mainstream, Native American, and Tribal Press Coverage, Alesha Marie Sangster
A Relevance Rule Organizing Responsive Behavior During Projectably Multi-Unit Tellings, Anri Zama
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Metaphorical Framing of Obesity, Ryan Paul Hofer
Inspiring Action: Measuring the Effect of Motivational Frames on Social Movement Mobilization, Rebecca Louise Smith
Discursive Security: F.B.I. Stings and the Nature of Peace, Adam Testerman
Check-In Frequency with Friends on Location-Based Social Networks: A Look at Homophily and Relational Closeness, Jacqueline H. Vo
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Peer Conversations about Inter-racial and Inter-ethnic Friendships, Lana Lee Buckholz
Black and Blue and Read All Over: News Framing and the Coverage of Crime, Kalistah Quilla Cosand
Elaborating Patient Agency in Breast-Cancer Care: A Grounded Theoretical Analysis of Patients Asserting Treatment Preferences, Rachel Sofia Erdman
Exploring Communicative Aspects of Client Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Retention in a Private, Non-profit Organization: A Qualitative, Interview-Based Study of Catholic Charities, Amanda Michelle Fortin
'This Would Be Much Funner in Person': A Qualitative Grounded Theory Analysis of Cybergrooming, Maurice Jason Gauz
Community Connections: Exploring the Constructive Potential of Facebook for Civic Engagement, Sarah Ruth Martin
"Your information station": A Case study of rural radio in the 21st century, William Jacob Amadeus Pinnock
Cross-Cutting Concerns: The Varying Effects of Partisan Cues in the Context of Social Networks, Benjamin King Smith
The Stories We Tell: A Qualitative Inquiry to Multiracial Family Storytelling, Mariko O. Thomas
It's Complicated: The Role of Facebook in Romantic Relationships Concerning Relational Certainty, Attachment, and Self-Esteem, Jenna Rae Tucker
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
International and Domestic Student Health-Information Seeking and Satisfaction, Stacy Theodora Austin
Talking the Talk: An exploration of parent-child communication about cyberbullying, Veronica Anne Droser
Self-Disclosure and Self-Efficacy in Online Dating, Andrew Christopher España
Metaphor Use in Interpersonal Communication of Body Perception in the Context of Breast Cancer, Jennifer Mary Fillion
Disjointed Cosmopolitanism: Climate Change and Lived Experience in Portland, Oregon, Stephen Wayne Flinn
Every Town Is All the Same When You've Left Your Heart in the Portland Rain: Representations of Portland Place and Local Identity in Portland Popular Lyrics, Meghan Andrea Kearney
Life Post 9/11: Experiences of Korean Americans Ten Years Later, Jay Lee
War's Visual Discourse: A Content Analysis of Iraq War Imagery, Mary Elizabeth Major
Grief Lives Online: An Empirical Study of Kübler-Ross' Categories of Bereavement on MySpace Profiles, Ilona Yurivna Malenkovich
Sexting Unleashed: The Social Phenomenon According to Youth Sexters, Jessica Marie McGraw
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Lived Experience of High School Policy Debate in Oregon, Ameena AnnaMaria Amdahl-Mason
Are We Cool Yet?: A Longitudinal Content Analysis of Nerd and Geek Representations in Popular Television, Christopher Louis Cardiel
Crafting a Space: A Feminist Analysis of the Relationship Between Women, Craft, Business and Technology on Etsy.com, Elizabeth Gillette Offensend
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Examining the Portland Music Scene through Neo-localism, Tyler James Brain
Who Gender-Bends and Why? A Qualitative Study of World of Warcraft, Clairellyn Rose Gregory
Performing Marginal Identities: Understanding the Cultural Significance of Tawa'if and Rudali Through the Language of the Body in South Asian Cinema, Lise Danielle Hurlstone
"You Can See it in Their Eyes:" A Communication Ethnography of a Humane Society, Sara Victoria Kaufman
A comparative case study of newspaper coverage of the Umatilla Chemical Weapons Depot/Incinerator from 1994 to 1998., Rogue Elliott Robertson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: How a Best-Seller Diffused Online, Melissa Ann Shavlik
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Impact of Humanitarian Photography on the Generation of Sympathy and on Donation Behavior, Marta Barberini
Investing and Vesting International Students' Expressive Resources in Social Capital at Portland State University, Mami Kikuchi
Public opinion and public engagement with genetically modified foods : a qualitative study, Celeste Laurana Moser
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Does the "news" come first? Social responsibility, infotainment, and local television newscasts in Portland, Oregon : a content analysis, Carey Lynne Higgins
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
A comparison of grammatical morpheme usage by four year olds with normal, impaired, and late developing language, Sally Alforde
A comparison of expressive vocabulary produced by nonambulatory, speaking preschool children and ambulatory speaking preschool children, Kim Denise Baker
The Concept of "Communication Skills" in the Discipline of Speech Communication, Lynn Bales
Word retrieval behaviors of aphasic adults in conversational speech : a preliminary study, Priscilla Jane Blake
A Study of the Association Among the Diagnosis of Speech-Language Impairments and the Diagnoses of Learning Disabilities and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Pamela E. Cogswell
Intercultural confrontation styles of culturally homophilous and culturally heterophilous Japanese and U.S. college students, Toyoko Hattori
The percentage consonants correct and intelligibility of normal, language delayed, and history of language delayed children, Randi Jartun
Multiple Code Switching in an Okinawan Speech Community: An Ethnographic Perspective, Izumi Kawamitsu
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
The relationship of patients' perceptions of physicians' communication style to patient satisfaction, Lisa Diane Abramson
Indirect intervention for preschool stutterers, Prudence Ann Bowers
A retrospective study of the Clinical evaluation of language functions elementary screening test (CELF-S), Tamara Lynn Caldwell
Public restoration of the fallen religious leader : a rhetorical perspective, David Fleer
Output of compression hearing aids with transient and continuous input stimuli, Carol Ann Gregory
A comparison of the vocabulary needs of speaking and nonspeaking twins, Dana Lynette Hamburg
Intercultural communication competence and intercultural adjustment of Japanese business sojourners and their spouses, Muneo Hotta
Reentry shock in the corporate environment, Steven A. Locke
Empathy, holonomic brain processes and Patanjali's Sutras : a study of Western and Eastern models of perception as they relate to empathic communication, Dana Ralston McCullough
Percentage of phonological process usage in expressive language delayed children, Sherri Lynn Miller
Effects of encouraging, discouraging, and neutral instructions on naming by aphasic subjects, Denise Marie Nelson
Written narrative texts of language impaired and normal adolescents, Kevin Jon Penner
Internal-external locus of control and the life experiences of Soviet Pentecostal refugees in Portland, Oregon, Amy Roberts
Story retelling skills in 4-year-olds with histories of normal and delayed language development, Rita Louise Smith
The value of the SPI in forecasting chronic stuttering, Dena Diane Stork
Assessing the intercultural sensitivity of American expatriates in Kuwait, Deborah Ann Turner
The correlation between correct verbal and nonverbal responses on an intelligence test and expressive language test score, Jeanie P. Wagener
Role and behavior of interpreters : an exploratory study in American-Chinese business negotiations, Zhijian Kevin Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
The Use of the California Consonant Test and the Northwestern University Auditory Test no. 6 in Hearing Aid Evaluations for Individuals with Precipitous Losses Above 1 kHz, Bradley James Allard
Hearing aid satisfaction and rate of return for repairs : a comparison of two Kaiser dispensing programs, Lynn Behrendsen
Written narratives of language disordered and normal adolescents on two tasks, Antigone Howick Brown
On a women's language, Tamara Brown
Developmental sentence scoring sample size comparison, Peggy Ann Callan
The use of phonological process assessment for differentiating developmental apraxia of speech from functional articulation disorders, Kathryn DeArmond
The duration of tinnitus in an aging population, Mary Engel
A comparison of an acoustic stethoscope and an amplified stethoscope in white noise and cafeteria noise during cardiac auscultation, Lynda Lynell Gigstad
Speechreading ability in elementary school-age children with and without functional articulation disorders, Barbara L. Habermann
A comparison of the phonological skills of late talking and normal toddlers, Patricia Joan Jennings
High frequency acoustic reflexes in cochlea-impaired and normal ears, Karen Elizabeth Jones
A comparison of two methods for measuring the attenuation provided by insert-type hearing protection devices, Brenda Barrett Kabat
Comparison of the modal frequency levels of nonsmoking and cigarette smoking white females between the ages of forty and fifty years, Janis Mae Kaufman
The effect of a parent training program on language delayed children, Lynn Krupa
Communication stress and coping strategies among Japanese university students in the United States, Atsuko Kurogi
Audiological in-service regarding hearing impairment and its impact on communication in the geriatric population, Marie Barlow Lassell
Communication stressors and coping strategies among Chinese students in the United States, Qiu Lu Liang
Otitis media and language development in late talkers, Timothy Forest Lynn
The creation of a core vacabulary for initial lexicon selection for nonspeaking preschool children, Lillian May More
The assessment of phonological processes : a comparison of connected-speech samples and single-word production tests, Susan A. Pinkerton
Intelligibility of spondees via bone conduction at elevated presentation levels, Pamela S. Ritchie
A comparison of two vocabulary tests used with normal and delayed preschool children, Lynn Safadi
A study in the language acquisition styles of language delayed toddlers, Shelly Saunders