"When 'Try, Try Again' Turns to 'You're Beating a Dead Horse': The Rhetorical Characteristics of Proverbs and Their Potential for Influencing Therapeutic Change" in Metaphor and Symbolic Activity

"Analogy in persuasion: Translator's dictionary or art?" in Communication Studies

"'Food Is to Me as Gas Is to Cars??': Using Figurative Language to Explain Illness to Children" in Health Communication

"'Rebuttal' Analogy: A Theoretical Note" in Metaphor and Symbolic Activity

"Perceptions of Rebuttal Analogy: Politeness and Implications for Persuasion" in Argumentation and Advocacy

"African American women's perception of rebuttal analogy: Judgments concerning politeness, likability, and ethics" in Southern Communication Journal

"Explaining Illness to Children: Advancing Theory and Research by Determining Message Content" in Health Communication

"Stutterers' perceptions of more satisfying communication: Interaction strategies for fluent speakers" in Communication Research Reports

"Expressing the experience of communicative disability: Metaphors of persons who stutter" in Communication Reports

"Do We Need to Put God into Emotional Support?: A Comparison of Caucasians’ and African-Americans’ Evaluations of Religious versus Non-Religious Comforting Messages" in Journal of Intercultural Communication Research