Living expressions: An initial understanDing

Living Expressions is a term that was created to describe a unique, formalized process of interpersonal communication, in which individuals share often unexpressed feelings of appreciation with one another. This qualitative study explored a single case, single process event, based on interviews with the participants. A constructivist paradigm guides the research with intentional avoidance of a priori theory, and institutes an emergent design with the human as instrument. The purpose of the study was to foster a greater understanding of a new and unusual formal process that holds numerous potentially positive implications in its widespread application. The review of the literature offered an overview of the most closely related, primary communication process of positive self-disclosure, operationalized the focus of the study, and identified similar processes. The discussion of the data took the narrative form of an impressionistic ethnography describing the meaning the event held for its participants, through their eyes.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication Studies

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

1999

Author dc:creator

• Landa, Martin Bennett

Contributors dc:contributor

• Leesa Dillman

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/975

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-1974