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Peer reviewedRagan, Sandra L.; Hopper, Robert – Journal of Applied Communication Research, 1981
Locates and analyzes the following verbal alignment devices in job interview talks: accounts, formulations, meta-talks, and qualifiers. Results reveal--among other important implications for the job interview process--that interviewees, by assuming a timid, powerless role, may be yielding in a way that jeopardizes their being hired or future job…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Employment Interviews
Download full textHopper, Robert; And Others – 1972
This study investigated the hypothesis that an employer's hiring decisions are influenced by certain speech characteristics of prospective employees. Simulated job interviews of four different speakers were played for 62 employers involved in actual hiring. Sets of semantic differential scales were used to measure employer's attitudes towards the…
Descriptors: Diction, Employer Attitudes, Employment Interviews, Employment Qualifications
Peer reviewedHopper, Robert – Communication Monographs, 1977
Posits the hypothesis that both black skin and nonstandard speech make employment as a salesperson or supervisor less likely and discusses the research study designed to provide support for this hypothesis. (MH)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Employment Interviews, Higher Education, Job Applicants
Hopper, Robert; Williams, Frederick – Speech Monographs, 1973
Employers' attitudes toward employees' speech affects hiring. (CH)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Interviews, Employment Potential
