This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 11 titles deal with the following topics: (1) applying Burke's cluster-agon method to Betty Friedan's rhetoric; (2) the rhetoric of nonviolent action; (3) the president's wife as public communicator; (4) the identification and analysis of the three Aristotelian modes of proof in editorials written by two United States Virgin Islanders during the period 1915-1926; (5) evaluati a radio ministry in a local church; (6) the Nez Perce communication strategies in the 1855 Walla Walla conference; (7) network television rhetoric in the coverage of the Nigerian civil war; (8) the mix of traditional and nontraditional rhetorical considerations in enacting social change; (9) the rhetoric of F. Hegel's early writings; (10) media exposure, personal contact, and political tolerance in an international crisis; and (11) Joseph McCarthy as leader. (HTH)