University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 6-1986 Audience Perceptions of Five Types of Radio Humor Larry Zane Leslie University of Tennessee - Knoxville Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss Part of the Communication Commons Recommended Citation Leslie, Larry Zane, "Audience Perceptions of Five Types of Radio Humor. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 1986. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/2933 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a dissertation written by Larry Zane Leslie entitled "Audience Perceptions of Five Types of Radio Humor." I have examined the final electronic copy of this dissertation for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with a major in Communication. Michael F. Singletary, Major Professor We have read this dissertation and recommend its acceptance: George Everett, Barbara Moore, Kyle Reed, Sam Swan Accepted for the Council: Carolyn R. Hodges Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School (Original signatures are on file with official studentecor r ds.) To the Graduate Council : I am submitting herewith a dissertation written by Larry Zane Leslie entitled "Audience Perceptions of Five Types of Radio Humor ." I have examined the final copy of this dissertation for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy , with a major in Communications .