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Attitudes toward communication and the assessment of rhetorical sensitivity

Roderick P. Hart Professor of speech communication, University of Texas, Austin
,
Robert E. Carlson Assistant professor of communication, University of Nebraska, Omaha
&
William F. Eadie Visiting assistant professor of speech communication, University of Minnesota,
Pages 1-22 | Published online: 02 Jun 2009
 
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Abstract

This series of studies operationalized the concept of rhetorical sensitivity first discussed by Hart and Burks in 1972. A measuring instrument (RHETSEN) was developed and the attitudes‐toward‐communication held by several thousand individuals were thereby assessed. RHETSEN was found to have sufficient reliability and validity. When a national sample of college students responded to RHETSEN, it appeared that their feelings about encoding messages were related to their various sociocultural backgrounds. When a large group of adult nurses took the test, their responses seemed associated with their particular professional duties and life experiences.

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