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Phillips, Mary Lou Luttrell. "The Language of Naval Performance Evaluation: Officer Promotion as Reader Response and the Ideal Officer Concept," University of Maryland, College Park, Spring 1989. Advisor: Myron Lounsbury (12, 2, 5)
This research explores the language of performance evaluation in the United States Navy in an effort to learn to what degree we may say that readers of a specific cultural sub-group read a written text in a uniform manner. The readers in this study are Promotion-Board-eligible Navy Officers, the focal in-group, and foreign volunteers, a comparative out-group, who have volunteered to read and review the evaluations according to specifically designed instructions. A survey of the specific words indicating both strong and weak promote signals was devised and administered to all the research participants and the results are compared.
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