Contact Information
Liberal Arts Building (LAB), 467
118 College Drive, Box #5131
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5131
Phone: 601.266.4271
Fax: 601.266.4275
Dr. Lawrence A. Hosman
Dr. Lawrence A. Hosman
Professor
601-266-4279
Education
Ph.D., University of Iowa, Communication Studies
M.A., University of Iowa, Communication Studies
B.A., University of Missouri-Kansas City, Communications.
Teaching
CMS 111—Public Speaking
CMS 311--Persuasion
CMS 330—Small Group Communication
CMS 412—Advanced Persuasion
CMS 430—Communication and Small Group Decision-Making
CMS 435—Legal Communication
CMS 600—Communication Theory and Research
CMS 715—Message Processes and Effects
CMS 722—Contemporary Theory and Research in Persuasion
CMS 730—Theory and Research in Small Group Communication
CMS 809—Experimental Methods in Communication Research
Research
Interests include language, persuasion/social influence, and interpersonal communication. I am particularly interested in powerful and powerless speech and how message characteristics work in the persuasion process.
Selected Publications
Hosman, L. A. (forthcoming). Powerful and powerless language and their relationship to persuasion. In A.K. Goodboy & K. Schultz (Eds.), Introduction to communication studies: Translating communication scholarship into meaningful practice. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt.
Hosman, L. A., & Siltanen, S. A. (2011). Hedges, tag questions, message processing, and persuasion. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 30, 341-349.
Hosman, L. A. (2008). Style and persuasion. In U. Fix, A. Gardt, & J. Knape (Eds.), Rhetoric and stylistics: An international handbook of historical and systematic research (Vol. 1, pp. 1119-1129). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Hosman, L. A., & Siltanen, S. A. (2006). Powerful and powerless language forms: Their consequences for impression formation, attributions of control of self and control of others, cognitive responses, and message memory. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 25, 33-46.
Hosman, L. A., Huebner, T. M., & Siltanen, S. A. (2002). The impact of power-of-speech style, argument strength, and need for cognition on impression formation, cognitive responses, and persuasion. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 21, 361-379.
Hosman, L. A. (2002). Language and persuasion. In J. P. Dillard & M. Pfau (Eds.), The persuasion handbook: Theory and practice (pp. 371-390). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Parton, S. R., Siltanen, S. A., Hosman, L. A., & Langenderfer, J. (2002) Employment interview outcomes and speech style effects. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 21, 144-161.
Dr. Hosman’s webpage: http//ocean.otr.usm.edu/~w305727/
