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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Communication Goals"”.
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The Influence of Situational Variation, Associated Attributions, and Emotions on Support Providers' Interaction Goals
… influenced both emotional responses and communication goals. Moreover, path analyses indicated that emotion mediated the influence of attributions on communication goals in several instances. However, attributions also exerted unmediated effects on several communication goals, and …
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Social Cognitive Antecedents and Consequences of Communication Objectives
The study drew from Communication Game and Constructivist theories of communication and involved a comparative analysis of the relative influences of communication goals, and individual differences in interpersonal construct system development (i.e., cognitive differentiation) and interpersonal …
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The relationship between aggression and communication in students with developmental disabilities
… examine the relationship between aggression and communication in students with developmental disabilities. Previous research examining the relationship between aggression and communication found a significant correlation between physical aggression and expressive vocabulary in language (Dionne, …
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A Thai culture-centred study of communication between Thai immigration police officers and English-speaking travellers at the northern borders of Thailand
This qualitative study explores communication where English is the 'third' language used between participants whose cultures are different. The purpose was to investigate the communication experiences of Thai Immigration Police Officers (ITIPOs) and travellers to understand TIPOs' role within an …
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An examination of the effectiveness of an oral communication apprehension reduction program in an ESL class for graduate student
… poor performance. Given this situation, would a communication apprehension (CA) reduction program like those administered by speech communication departments be effective if adapted for ESL classrooms? A semester-long CA reduction program was implemented in a graduate-level ESL course. It …
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How non-native speakers make do with words when doing things with words : an analysis of communication strategies in storytelling by Mandarin-speaking learners of English
… NNS) in the course of telling a story. Emergent communication problems during the talk-in-interaction were engaged with and resolved through the application of communication strategies (CS). The storyteller and her/his co-participants utilized CS in an attempt not only to overcome communication …
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Examining the role of uncertainty and goals in the threat of relationship talk and associations with avoidance, indirectness, and communication satisfaction
Relationship talk, or communication about the connection between partners, is associated with both dyadic benefits and relational risks. My dissertation project proposes a model to explain romantic partners’ perceptions of threat, indirect enactment, and avoidance of relationship talk and the …
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Public Relations Practitioners Use of Social Media in Kuwait Organisations: Alternative Public Relations Model in Kuwait
… using digital media in order to achieve their communication goals. Focusing on social media, this research critically compares the use social media adopted by the public relations practitioners in Kuwaiti public institutions and private commercial institutions. The research aims to develop the …
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Alternative Information Processing Formats for Overcoming Information Processing Deficits in Senior Adults
… for advertisers and those who design marketing communications for seniors are numerous, and relate to the marketer's communication goals. Senior adults may prefer print media, but the inappropriate use of presentation format and the number of product attributes in the ads could have an adverse …
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Principals’ communication style and parents’ involvement in school
Communication skills have been recognised as critical to school leadership. The evolution of social culture, the complexity of human relations and the change in today?s schooling systems require school leaders to be highly competent in their communication skills. The aim of the study was to explore …
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Communication and quality of life outcomes in people with acquired brain injury following project-based treatment
Communication impairments are common following acquired brain injury (ABI) and have a significant impact on a person’s quality of life (QOL) post-injury. While some treatments have improved communication skills, few have measured QOL, and even fewer have shown improved QOL for people with ABI …
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Communicating strategically: public relations and organisational legitimacy
… a global society. The research analyses NATO's communication operations in the Kosovo Campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, examining the case from a number of different perspectives. The thesis contributes to the body of knowledge of public relations practices and how, in this …
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Extraction and Exploitation of User Goals and Intentions for Querying and Recommendation
… investigated so far in information systems: the goals for which items are intended, i.e., the goals for which items have been generated or produced; and the goals that may lead the user to “consume” them, i.e., the goals that s/he is willing to fulfill. The items may not be just items but …
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Targeting collaborative referencing in aphasia: evidence from a mixed methods treatment study
The current study integrates the distributed communication theory (Hengst, 2015) with the social philosophies of interventions for aphasia with the aim of investigating the communicative changes in four individuals with chronic aphasia and their clinician-partners during the study sessions (both …
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A Mixed-Method Examination of Primary Care Physician Message Strategies to Correct Patient-Held Health Misinformation: An Application of Goals-Plans-Action Theory
… evidence), there is a need for successful communication strategies to combat this detrimental health issue (Krishna & Thompson, 2021). Guided by goals-plans-action theory (Dillard, 1990), which explains the communicative process of creating and implementing influence messages, the purpose …