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Communication Studies Faculty Publications

The Department of Communication Studies at the University of Montana engages with both social-scientific and humanistic approaches to the analysis, understanding, and improvement of human communication. The Department focuses on three broad areas of study, including interpersonal interaction and human relationships; organizational and institutional communication; and rhetoric and public discourse. The research and creative scholarship by the faculty of the Department of communication Studies includes historical public discourse; the functions of discourse in society; interpersonal and small group interaction; human relations in organizations; media and society; intercultural interaction; and symbols and messages in societal discourse.

Submissions from 2015 2015

The Impact of Teachers' Communication Approach on Children's Co-Cultural Adaptation, Phyllis B. Ngai

Submissions from 2014 2014

Industrial Apocalyptic: Neoliberalism, Coal, and the Burlesque Frame, Jennifer Peeples, Pete Bsumek, Steven J. Schwarze, and Jen Schneider

Environmental melodrama, coal, and the politics of sustainable energy in The Last Mountain, Steven J. Schwarze, Jennifer Peeples, Jen Schneider, and Pete Bsumek

Submissions from 2013 2013

A Functional Analysis of 2012 U.S. Presidential Primary Debates, Mark Glantz, William L. Benoit, and David Airne

Submissions from 2011 2011

Determinants of Issue Emphasis in Gubernatorial and Senate Debates, William L. Benoit, David Airne, and LeAnn Brazeal

Functional Federalism and Issue Emphasis in Political Television Spots, William L. Benoit, LeAnn Brazeal, and David Airne

Submissions from 2010 2010

Implementing Montana's Indian-Education-for-All Initiative in a K-5 Public School: Implications for Classroom Teaching, Education Policy, and Native Communities, Phyllis B. Ngai and Peter Koehn

Submissions from 2008 2008

An Emerging Native Language Education Framework for Reservation Public Schools With Mixed Populations, Phyllis B. Ngai

Submissions from 2007 2007

A Functional Analysis of Televised U.S. Senate and Gubernatorial Campaign Debates, William L. Benoit, LeAnn Brazeal, and David Airne

Submissions from 2005 2005

Using students Mentors in an "Introduction to Honors" Course, Betsy Wackernagel Bach, Rachel Kinkie, and Sam Schabacker

A Functional Analysis of American Vice Presidential Debates, William L. Benoit and David Airne

Submissions from 2003 2003

Juxtaposition in Environmental Health Rhetoric: Exposing Asbestos Contamination in Libby, Montana, Steven J. Schwarze

Submissions from 2002 2002

Rhetorical Traction: Definitions and Institutional Arguments in Judicial Opinions About Wilderness Access, Steven J. Schwarze

Submissions from 1995 1995

The Metaphors of Retirement : Cutting Cords, Disentangling from Webs, and Heading for Pasture, Steven R. Phillips and Betsy Wackernagel Bach

Submissions from 1991 1991

An Explication and Test of Communication Network Content and Multiplexity as Predictors of Organizational Identification, Betsy Wackernagel Bach and Connie Bullis

Submissions from 1990 1990

"Moving Up" on Campus : A Qualitative Examination of Organizational Socialization, Betsy Wackernagel Bach

Submissions from 1989 1989

Socialization Turning Points : An Examination of Change in Organizational Identification, Connie Bullis and Betsy Bach

Submissions from 1988 1988

Communication Between Physicians and Physical Therapists, Janet Bower Hulme, Betsy Wackernagel Bach, and John W. Lewis