Communication Studies, Department of

 

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2016

Citation

Published in Communication Research Reports Vol. 33, No. 4, 2016, pp. 281–287. DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2016.1224158

Comments

Copyright © 2016 Eastern Communication Association; published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. Used by permission.

Abstract

This study investigated the degree to which religious pluralistic language varies as a function of the intergroup salience of a context and religious orientation. Based on a 2 (Religious Salience of Context) × 3 (Religious Salience of Topic) experimental design, participants (N = 239) were instructed to compose an e-mail to an interactional partner based on the randomly assigned condition. Messages were coded for religious pluralistic language, and participants completed measures of religious orientation and evaluations of the conversational partner. Modest effects were found for both intergroup salience of the context and topic as well as religious orientation.

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