Distinguishing workplace peers through speech events
| dc.contributor.advisor | Ebesu Hubbard, Amy S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Prasad, Ashmika | |
| dc.contributor.department | Communicology | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-06-27T22:20:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-06-27T22:20:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description.degree | M.A. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10125/110984 | |
| dc.subject | Communication | |
| dc.subject | communication | |
| dc.subject | coworkers | |
| dc.subject | friendship | |
| dc.subject | peer | |
| dc.subject | speech events | |
| dc.subject | workplace | |
| dc.title | Distinguishing workplace peers through speech events | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dcterms.abstract | Peer relationships can provide multiple personal and professional benefits. However, little is known about the types of peer-to-peer relationships in the workplace and the communication that occurs in these relationships. By assessing speech events of informational, collegial, and special peers at the workplace, this exploratory study brought a better understanding of how communication constitutes peer-coworker relationships. Forty-eight retail employees who communicate with their peers completed a survey. Goldsmith and Baxter’s research on speech events used in everyday conversations formed the basis to measure the frequency of speech events used by co-workers of varying closeness at the workplace. My findings suggest that co-workers consider their peers as friends and feel close to them. Findings on the speech events co-workers engage in with different peers showed that workplace peers communicate using superficial and informal talk. My study helped to deconstruct the relationship between how co-workers feel about each other, and how these intrinsic perceptions were conveyed through their everyday communication. | |
| dcterms.extent | 82 pages | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.publisher | University of Hawai'i at Manoa | |
| dcterms.rights | All UHM dissertations and theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner. | |
| dcterms.type | Text | |
| local.identifier.alturi | https://www.proquest.com/LegacyDocView/DISSNUM/32038417 |
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