This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with the following topics: (1) a psycholinguistic analysis of the rhetoric of Abba S. Eban; (2) synergetic tetrahedral communication models; (3) a form critical approach to the oral traditions of the black church as they relate to the celebration of death; (4) the rhetoric of Afro-American poetry; (5) rhetoric in the English educational system, 1520-1550; (6) rhetorical visions of medicine of Mexican-American and Anglo patients and practitioners; (7) film criticism and economically successful films; (8) an analysis of internal rhetoric in the health care system; (9) the judicial opinion as a rhetorical performance; (10) rhetorical theory and the free clinic movement; (11) a rhetorical study of chicanismo in selected poetry from 1969 to 1972; (12) the grammatical structure of oratory; (13) the rhetoric of social justice, legal justice and moral justice; (14) evaluation of noncontent speech accommodation; (15) the rhetoric of Henry A. Wallace; and (16) a dramatistic perspective on the rhetoric of Holocaust survivors. (MKM)