Browsing College of Liberal and Fine Arts Faculty Research by Title

A Dramaturgical Analysis of Latina Influencers Use of Props and Settings to Signal Identity

Soto-Vásquez, Arthur D.; Jimenez, Nadia (2022-06-27)

Dramaturgical analysis has been applied by scholars to social media influencers, but how props and settings are used to signal identity is understudied. This study uses a series of in-depth interviews with Latina influencers ...

A Usage-Based Perspective on Spanish Variable Clitic Placement

Requena, Pablo E. (9/7/2020)

This study provides a usage-based analysis of Spanish Variable Clitic Placement (VCP). A variationist analysis of VCP in spoken Argentine Spanish indicates that VCP grammar is constrained by lexical (finite verb) and ...

Allies in Action: The Communicative Experiences of People Who Challenge Social Injustice on Behalf of Others

DeTurk, Sara (Communication Quarterly;59(5), 2011-10-14)

This study explores the lived experiences of people who act as allies in the interest of social justice. Interviews were conducted to investigate the meaning of the ally identity and the tactics allies use to interrupt ...

Ancient Maya Regional Settlement and Inter-Site Analysis: The 2013 West-Central Belize LiDAR Survey

Chase, Arlen F.; Chase, Diane Z.; Awe, Jaime J.; Weishampel, John F.; Iannone, Gyles; Moyes, Holley; Yaeger, Jason; Brown, M. Kathryn; Shrestha, Ramesh L.; Carter, William E.; Fernandez Diaz, Juan C. (9/16/2014)

During April and May 2013, a total of 1057 km2 of LiDAR was flown by NCALM for a consortium of archaeologists working in West-central Belize, making this the largest surveyed area within the Mayan lowlands. Encompassing ...

Application of Statistics Training to Real-World Contexts: Issues Related to Working as Data Analysts Outside Academe

LeBlanc, H. Paul, III; Cortez, David, A.; Doss, Leslie, E. (Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability;Volume 16, Issue 2, 2021-07-09)

Through I-Corps™ customer discovery interviews (NSF Award 1925391), the authors determined that early and mid-career data analysts would be positively benefitted by the development and commercialization of an interactive ...

Attitudes Regarding the Components of Ethical Communication

LeBlanc, H. Paul, III; Magallanes, Ariadne (Business Research Yearbook;Volume 14, 2007)

This study investigated the relationship between components of ethical communication. Based on survey data (N = 319), Principal Components Analysis revealed four positively loaded factors (honesty, integrity, modesty and ...

COVID-19 Effects on Communication Course and Faculty Evaluations

LeBlanc, H. Paul, III (Journalism & Mass Communication Educator;Volume 76, Issue 4, 2021-08-25)

Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are utilized by universities as one component in assessing course effectiveness, despite evidence in the research regarding their validity. With the global COVID-19 pandemic, many ...

Cross-linguistic influence in L1 processing of morphosyntactic variation: Evidence from L2 learners

Requena, Pablo E.; Berry, Grant M. (Applied Psycholinguistics;42(1), 2021-01-14)

The current study investigates cross-linguistic influence of second language (L2) learning on native language (L1) processing of morphosyntactic variation in proficient L2 learners immersed in their L1. Despite Spanish ...

DO LEARNERS CONNECT SOCIOPHONETIC VARIATION WITH REGIONAL AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS? THE CASE OF L2 PERCEPTION OF SPANISH ASPIRATION

Chappell, Whitney; Kanwit, Matthew (Studies in Second Language Acquisition;, 2021-05-11)

Learners must develop the ability to perceive linguistic and social meaning in their second language (L2) to interact effectively, but relatively little is known about how learners link social meaning to a single phonetic ...

Does Religious Involvement Mitigate the Effects of Major Discrimination on the Mental Health of African Americans? Findings from the Nashville Stress and Health Study

Ellison, Christopher G.; DeAngelis, Reed T.; Güven, Metin (9/17/2017)

Several decades of scholarly research have revealed the significant toll of discrimination experiences on the well-being of African Americans. Given these findings, investigators have become increasingly interested in ...

The electoral implications of uncivil and intolerant rhetoric in American politics

Gervais, Bryan T. (2021-11-14)

Can political incivility bolster support for American candidates? Conventional wisdom holds that it does and Donald Trump’s 2016 electoral victories demonstrate the power of uncivil rhetoric—particularly, when it is paired ...

Evil is not evidence

Almeida, Michael (Religious Studies;, 2022-03-24)

The article aims to show that, if S5 is the logic of metaphysical necessity, then no state of affairs in any possible world constitutes any non-trivial evidence for or against the existence of the traditional God. There ...

FOCAL NODES AND RITUAL ECONOMY IN ANCIENT MAYA HINTERLAND COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY FROM SAN LORENZO, BELIZE

Ingalls, Victoria; Yaeger, Jason (Ancient Mesoamerica;Volume 33, Issue 1, 2022-05-27)

Public structures in the Maya region materialize ideologies and define centers of power as they create politically charged sacred landscapes. These locations are focal nodes for community and polity making processes, ...

Giving Voice to Diversity: An Interactive Approach to Conflict Management and Decision-Making in Culturally Diverse Work Environments

Broome, Benjamin J.; DeTurk, Sara; Kristjansdottir, Erla S.; Kanata, Tamie; Ganesan, Puvana (Journal of Business and Management;8(3), 2002)

While there is much evidence to show that diversity of viewpoints and perspectives allows for more creative problem solving and decision-making, there is also a great deal of research to indicate that cultural diversity ...