Y DOCOSIST SIMS tilD 175 050 CS 205 113 'ISMS Rhetorical and Communication Tueory: Abstracts of it . 'Doctoral Dissertations Published in *Dissertation Abstracts International,* January. through June1979 S. (Vol: 39 Hos. 1 through 12). USTITOTION ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading andCommunication Skills, Urbana, Ill. teeDATE 79 ROTE '10p. .8DES PRICE IF01/PC01 Plus Posteiev--,1 DESCRIPTORS Athletics: Slack Dialects: 'Cluster Analysis: *Communication (Thought 2rUnsfer): *Discourse Analysis: Doctoral-Thesess *eminismgHomosexuali%:: Humor: *Information TheoryV Irony: models: Poetry: Research; *Rhetoric: Rhetorical Criticism:. Socialization; Social Relations: *Speech Communication IDINTIFIERS *Communilcation Research .ABSTRACT This collection of abstracts in part of a continuing series proiiding information on recentdoctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with tbe following topics:confessional rhetoric in the ipoetry Of Anne Sexton, rhetoricalcriticism, the Hippocratic oath, messages communicatedthrough team sports as a medium ofsocial Interaction, the silent black language, humorin a lesbian speech gto munity, inventionin the Carolingian age, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ony. communicationand consciousness, the development of concept d f sion models and their application tothe diffusion of the social concept of race, the rhetoric of contemporaryfeminist song, and .communication as the vehicle of socialisation. (Pi) *********************************************************************** Reproductions suppliedby EDRS are the bestthat cat be made from the origins./ document. o********************************************************************** U.S. DEPARTMENT OP WEALTH. 1101/CATION IMILPARII GNP Notossm.INSTITUTS OP EDUCATION tIllS00CUMENT 'HAS MINREPRO. OUCED EXACTLY ASRECEIVED PROM THE PERSON OR ORDANIZATIONORIGIN. ATM. IT POINTS OP VIEWOR OPINIONS STATED 00 NOT NECESSARILYRIPER. SINT OP MIA!. NATIONALINSTITUTE OP EDUCATION POWS ION QSPOLICY o Avi. 4. Rhetorical and Communication Theory:,. .Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in Dissertation Abstracts International,.January through Jun* 19)9 (Vol. 39 Nos. 7 through 12) Compiled by the staff of th.e ERIC Clearinghouse onRiading and Communication Skills "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE114113 MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY University Microfilms Internat tonal TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." ( The dissertation titles contained 4ftrware.publishedwith permission of the Dtiversity Microfilms International, publishers of Dissertation Abstracts International (copyright01979 by University Microfilms International), and may not be..reproduced without their prior permission. This bibliography hae.beep compiled as part of a gontinuing.series designed to make informationonfrrelevant dissertations Available to users of the ERIC system. Monthly issues of Diviertation Abstracts International arereviewed in order to Compile abstracts of dissertations on related topics,which thus becone accessible in searches of phe ERIC data bass. Odering information for the dissertations themselvqs is included at the endof the bibliography. Abstracts of the following dissertations are included inthis collections i . Capo, Kay Ellen Merriman Swearingen, Carolyn Jan REDEEMING WORDS; A STUDY OF CONFES-. IRONY,. FROM TROPE TO AESTHETIC: A SIONAL RHETORIC IN THE POETRY OF HISTORY OF INDIRECT DISCOURSE IN ANNE SEXTON RHETORIC, LITERARY AESTHETICS, AND SEMEIOTICS Feeney, Martin Daniel THE*ART OF RHETORICAL CRITICISM Thompson, John William TOWARDS THE 21STCENTURY COMMUNICATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS: A DERIVATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES,- Fritz, Paul Alvin A CLUSTER ANALYSIS OF THE HIPPOCRATIC Vora, Erika Wenzel OATH THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONCEPT DIFFUSION MODELS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO THE Hoffman, Steven Mark DIFFUSION OF THE SOCIAL CONCEPT OF RACE THE NATURE AND.INFLUENCE OF MESSAGES COMMUNICATED THROUGH COMPETITIVE Weiner, Jill Robyn TEAM SPORTS AS A MEDIUM-OF SOCIAL THE FAMILY OF WOMAN: A MYTHOLOGICAL INTERACTION ANALYSIS *OF THE RHETORIC OF CONTEM- .PORARY FEMINIST SONG Kenjyatta, damus Amazulu THE SILENT BLACK LANGUAGE: POETIC Wiseman, Richard Lee MOVEMENT IN CULTURE COMMUNICATION AS THE VEHICLE OF SOCIAL- IZATION: AN INVESTIGATION OF A FOSTER Painter, IklivtawSue GROUP HOME PROGRAM A COMMUNICATIVE STUDY OF HUMOR IN A LESBIAN SPEECH COMMUNITy: BECOMING AMMER Frill, Paul Edward INVENTION IN THE CAROLINGIAN AGE Schroeder, Gale Young ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER: /CONOCLASM FOR A CONTEMPORARY COMMUNICATION PHILOS- OPHY '" 1r, tHEIDElliING WORDS: A STUW OF CONFESSIONAL RIM. THE ART OF RHETORICAL CRITICISM' TOWARDS THE TOIr DI THE POETRY OF 04013 SEXTON 315T CENTURY Order No. 7901435 Order No. 7903238 FEENEY, Martin Daniel, Ph.D. Bowling drain State Univer.. CAPilHey EllenMerrii6n, Ph.D, Northwestern University, sity, 1978. 507pp. °SOW. Adviser: Wallace A. Bacon The viewpoint expressed is that the historian-journalist- This study argues that *confessions is the key to a specific sciontiet-expert commentator model is now inappropriate as rhetorical process of self-disclosure which establishes a ma. a determining perspective for the practice of rhetorical criti- veSsal, aesthetically appealing tram t of meaning in the cism. The ART of rhetorical criticism is more appropriately AlUte Sexton. Instead of taking an autobiographical encompassed by a poet-novelist-writer model, Ctrytoward heraiersonal subject matter, this inaulry examinee R is within this universe of criticism to suggest that the structural featdres of Sexton's verse which drainatis the pro- nature and practice of rhetorical criticism have both in a the- cess of repentance and reconciliation experienced by her per- oretical and in an applied sense transcended historical, for- sena& Following Xeimeth Burke's view, poetry becomes a ensic, and scientific analogues. It I. within this universe that rhetoric of rebirth that celebrates the human cycle ot guilt- the rhetorical critic must respond to the power of symbols by yurification.redemption. individuating a vision and a judgment based upon critical points Sodom's published books, from To Bedls.m and Part Vday of departure established and a creative apprehension of rhe- Misr to The Awl"' 2fLatirdi17-11contaia torical phenomena. cd at WetliVe-peatiettli-udes: mortification Rhetorical explorations and critical points ot departure be. (scaltegosting), contrition/apologia, mock lyricaelf- tweet 1925-1977 are explicated and analyzed as well as the parody), and edification. Her assumption of these stances es. rhetorical dimensions of rock music, the rhetographY of Holly. tabilehes Sexton's rhetorical distance from and aesthetic con- wood sports films, and the moral universe structured by John trot wit the highly charged experiences which are regularly Cheever's novels. treated in her poetry, including intimate family relations ro MAR) love, fderally crisis, creativitaf, death, and thereligious quest. Each of five analytic chimters discusses theoretical aspects A CLUSTER ANALYSIS OF THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH of one penitential stance named above, It then examines how Order No. 7901437 that posture is used as the rhetorical framework of one impor- tant SOtton poem and surveys her developing use of this literary FRITZ, Paul Alvin, Ph.D. Bowling Green State University, *mention. 1978. 198pp. Sexton's personae often describe potentially guilty acts as forms ed mortitication which point the way toward a reestablish- The Hippocratic Oath appears to dictate moral rectitude and altruism of motive to a physician. This research exam- .meld of innoce---W.-rhe suffering encountered by surgery, mad- ness, ifismiudaa depression, grief, or suicideaittenipts can ined the Oath as it appeared in the Greek Hippocratic Corpus to determine if this motive.actually was present in the orig- thereby heal the persona's alienation from loved ones, mother- inal Oath. hood, and God. Kenneth Burke's cluster analysis was applied to the Oath Sexton employs the framework of victimage (scapegoating) to anlyec motive. An index of terms was constructed by corn- to alleviate the natural guilt feelings that accompany full sexual afiàg words in the Oath with the usage of those words in development and to absorb other personal tensions. While the the twenty-six books of the translated corpus. A concordance scapegoat figure ls often a family member in early poems, of those terms was constructed from the index which showed the object of victimage becomes mythical or abstract in the the contexts of the key terms. If an author's motives can be later verse. This development suggests rhetorical and psycho- detected in the symbols that he uses to describe his scene, logical growth on the part of Sexton's personae. then an examination of the contexts of those symbols will give The rhetorical strategies of contrition and salakt, appeal an indication of the author's motives. to the compassionate forglveness or rational approval which The chief motives found by this analysis were not vari- others can offer the guilt-ridden or wrongly-accused persona, ations of altraism, but a desire to perpetuate a specific meth In bor early books, thee* techniques help remove barriers that odology of medical treatment, a desire to dissociate the Hip- separate the persona from parents, lovers, and analysts. Later, pocratic physician from quacks and religious healers, and a the same strategies help establish more meaningful relation- desire to win high repute from the patient. ships with the ultimate authorities of God and Death. Though altruism is not the chief motive in the original