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From The Editor, Bradley Wolfe Oct 2023

From The Editor, Bradley Wolfe

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Letter from the Editor of the Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal, Dr. Bradley Wolfe, for Volume 46, 2023 issue.


Volume 46, 2023, Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal, Front Matter Oct 2023

Volume 46, 2023, Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal, Front Matter

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Front matter and Table of Contents for Volume 46 (2023) of the Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 46, 2023 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Oct 2023

Volume 46, 2023 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

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Full Volume, Nfa Journal Dec 2022

Full Volume, Nfa Journal

National Forensic Journal

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Nfa Journal Dec 2022

Front Matter, Nfa Journal

National Forensic Journal

No abstract provided.


An Experiment Testing The Influence Of Oral Interpretation On Entertainment And Persuasion, Shane Semmler, Megan Swets, Bailey Quanbeck, Blake Warner Dec 2022

An Experiment Testing The Influence Of Oral Interpretation On Entertainment And Persuasion, Shane Semmler, Megan Swets, Bailey Quanbeck, Blake Warner

National Forensic Journal

A post-test only experimental design evaluated the empirical influence of three 2016 National Forensic Association final round oral interpretation performances (two Dramatic Interpretations and one Prose Interpretation) on entertainment (parasocial interaction, identification, and narrative transportation); the capacity of entertainment to elicit enjoyment; and the capacity of entertainment to elicit persuasion (i.e., changes to attitude valence and attitude importance) through the mediating process of reduced counterarguing against subjective interpretations of arguments in the oral interpretation performances. The influence of oral interpretation on entertainment, enjoyment, counterarguing, and persuasion was substantially similar to that found in the larger body of empirical scholarship investigating …


Rehearsing With Imagined Interactions Theory: Exploring Imagined Interactions As Framework For Ensemble And Solo Performance Rehearsals, Joshua Hamzehee Dec 2022

Rehearsing With Imagined Interactions Theory: Exploring Imagined Interactions As Framework For Ensemble And Solo Performance Rehearsals, Joshua Hamzehee

National Forensic Journal

How should I practice is a common question that comes up while teaching performance and public speaking classes, when directing and performing in productions, and when coaching and competing for forensics squads. This essay provides a rationale for fusing Honeycutt’s imagined interactions theory (2003) with performance rehearsal processes, employing research guiding retroactive and proactive imagined interactions as a template to frame rehearsals that have the purpose of future actor ó spectator engagement. I use my experiences applying imagined interactions to an ensemble performance rehearsal and during a solo performance rehearsal to show the usefulness, limitations, and potentials of this methodological …


Resisting And Persisting Through Organizational Exit: An Autoethnographic Exploration Of Disclosing Sexual Harassment In Collegiate Debate, M. A., Tennley A. Vik Dec 2022

Resisting And Persisting Through Organizational Exit: An Autoethnographic Exploration Of Disclosing Sexual Harassment In Collegiate Debate, M. A., Tennley A. Vik

National Forensic Journal

Collegiate debate has documented extensive problems with sexual harassment. This manuscript uses the first author’s layered account of sexual harassment experienced as a collegiate debater, her transition to a different university, and the management of private information with her family. Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory and a plethora of studies provide a theoretical lens of the first author’s autoethnographic experience. We advance CPM theory by examining how young adult children manage their privacy through constructing more rigid privacy boundaries than their adolescent counterparts and provide the first look at how disclosure can both enable and constrain victims/survivors of sexual harassment, …


Volume 45, 2022 Communication And Theatre Association Of Minnesota Journal Jul 2022

Volume 45, 2022 Communication And Theatre Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 45) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 19, Summer 1992 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 19, Summer 1992 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 19, Summer 1992) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 18, Summer 1991 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 18, Summer 1991 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 18, Summer 1991) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 20, Summer 1993 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 20, Summer 1993 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 20, Summer 1993) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 21, Summer 1994 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 21, Summer 1994 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 21, Summer 1994) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 22, Summer 1995 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 22, Summer 1995 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 22, Summer 1995) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 24, Summer 1997 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 24, Summer 1997 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 24, Summer 1997) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 23, Summer 1996 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 23, Summer 1996 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 23, Summer 1996) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 25, Summer 1998 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 25, Summer 1998 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 25, Summer 1998) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 27, Summer 2000 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 27, Summer 2000 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 27, Summer 2000) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 26, Summer 1999 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 26, Summer 1999 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 26, Summer 1999) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 29, Summer 2002 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 29, Summer 2002 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 29, Summer 2002) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 28, Summer 2001 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 28, Summer 2001 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 28, Summer 2001) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal


Volume 30, Summer 2003 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 30, Summer 2003 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 30, Summer 2003) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 31, Summer 2004 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 31, Summer 2004 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 31, Summer 2004) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal


Volume 32, Summer 2005 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 32, Summer 2005 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 32, Summer 2005) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 33, Summer 2006 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 33, Summer 2006 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 33) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Complete Volume (44) Jul 2021

Complete Volume (44)

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 44) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


"The Most Beautiful Thing In The World": A Rhetorical Analysis Of Relational Dialectics And Friendship In The Musical Kinky Boots, Adam Clayton Moyer, Valerie Lynn Schrader Jul 2021

"The Most Beautiful Thing In The World": A Rhetorical Analysis Of Relational Dialectics And Friendship In The Musical Kinky Boots, Adam Clayton Moyer, Valerie Lynn Schrader

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

In this article, we examine Kinky Boots, a musical that won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2013 and continues to win over audiences with its positive message about acceptance, as a rhetorical text through William K. Rawlins’ theoretical construct of relational dialectics regarding friendship. Through rhetorical criticism as a research method, we apply Rawlins’ concepts of political and personal friendships, as well as the dialectics of affection and instrumentality, expressiveness and protectiveness, judgment and acceptance, and the ideal and the real to examine notable relationships between characters in the musical. Specifically, we examine the relationships between Charlie and …


Painted Nails: The Gender(Ed) Performance Of Queer Sexuality, Justin Rudnick Apr 2020

Painted Nails: The Gender(Ed) Performance Of Queer Sexuality, Justin Rudnick

Communication Studies Department Publications

In this essay, I interrogate my own experiences performing my queer identity through my painted nails. I attest to the ways queer bodies might performatively challenge and/or reinforce rigid norms of sexuality through mundane performances of (gendered) identity. To accomplish this, I engage in an autoethnographic exploration of queer performativity. I recount and analyze a series of anecdotes that illustrate how performances of queer identity in everyday life are accomplished—and policed—in mundane situations. In turn, I reflexively investigate the ways in which these performances situate me within a nexus of aesthetic, embodied, and ethical social interaction and performative resistance. I …


1970-1979: Investigating The Interstate Oratorical Contest During The "Me Decade", Karen Morris Jan 2020

1970-1979: Investigating The Interstate Oratorical Contest During The "Me Decade", Karen Morris

National Forensic Journal

The decade of the 1970s further entrenched the socially progressive values that came to the U.S. cultural forefront in the 1960s. Investing in such activities as the Women's Movement and Vietnam War protests, college students became increasingly vocal about social issues. Those speaking up on such topics included the interstate orators who crafted the IOC speeches of the 1970s. In order to analyze the speeches presented at the Interstate Oratorical Contest between 1970 and 1979, the first part of this paper will explore how this socially important historical time period influenced the speeches themselves. The second section will address the …


What We Value: Trends In Value Appeals Of Interstate Oratory Contest Final Round Speeches, Carson Kay, Eric Mishne Jan 2020

What We Value: Trends In Value Appeals Of Interstate Oratory Contest Final Round Speeches, Carson Kay, Eric Mishne

National Forensic Journal

Value appeals are crucial to persuasion. However, we wonder if forensic educators prioritize certain values. This content analysis examines the value appeals in the introductions of the three highest-placing persuasive speeches (N = 56) from the 1996-2016 Interstate Oratory Contests. Our two-decade comparison reveals that the diversity of values to which the finalists appealed decreased in the last decade. Drawing upon the Interstate Oratorical Association's historical context, Rokeach's (1973) value appeals, and Social Judgment Theory, we explain this trend and explore practical implications regarding exclusivity and judge bias, as well as methodological implications for future content analyses of value appeals.