This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 31 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the rhetoric of confrontation in Northern Ireland; (2) rhetorical arguments in public health regulations; (3) epideictic discourse in the founding of the Tennessee Valley Authority; (4) a rhetorical biography of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.; (5) an Afrocentric view of the rhetoric of Dick Gregory; (6) the ethnorhetoric of witnessing and heckling; (7) the ethics of rhetoric and the rhetoric of ethics in the abortion controversy; (8) women's speech in the Pentecostal religious service; (9) the rhetorical visions of obese women; and (10) rhetoric and dialectic in ancient and modern contexts. (MM)