The following bibliography comes from David J. Whittaker, Studies in Mormon History, 1830-1997 Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 890-91. Thanks to Maggie Chan for transcribing it.
Meyers, C.K., “A Critical Analysis and Appraisal of the Work
of Brigham Young as a Public Speaker” (Ph.D. diss.,
1940)
Meyers, C.J., “Brigham Young As a Public Speaker”(Improvement Era, 1941)
Clinger, M.M., “An Analysis of Twelve Speeches of Parley Parker
Pratt, Mormon Orator” (Master’s thesis, 1946)
Benson, F.T., “An Analysis of Orson Pratt’s
Invention in the Pratt-Newman Debate” (Master’s thesis, 1950).
Gleave R.H., “An Effect of the Speaking
of George A. Smith on the People of the Iron Mission of Southern Utah” (Master’s
thesis, 1957)
Hatch, R.D., “The Pratt-Newman Debate” (Master’s thesis, 1960)
Smith, C.N., “A Critical Analysis of the Public Speaking of
Joseph Smith, First President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints” (Ph.D. diss, 1965)
Young, K,L., “A Quantitative Analysis
of Matthew Cowley’s Use of the Illustrative Method
of Oral Support”( Master’s thesis, 1966).
Smith, C.N., “Joseph Smith as a Public Speaker” (Improvement
Era, 1966).
Whitney, C.I., “A Critical Analysis of the Forensic and Religious
Speaking of Joseph Smith” (Master’s Thesis, 1967).
Morgan, W.E., “An Analysis of the Speaking style of Hugh B.
Brown, Mormon Orator” (Master’s thesis, 1968).
Smith, C.N., “The speaking of Joseph Smith,
the Prophet of Nauvoo” (Journal of the Illinois Speech and Theatre Association,
1973).
Bitton, D., “Heber C. Kimball’s authoritarian
Imagery” (in Conference on the Language of the Mormons 1974 ed. H.S. Madsen
and J.L. Sorenson, 1974).
Buchanan, D.E., “An Analysis of the Immediate and Long-range
Implications of Three Speeches Delivered by J. Reuben Clark Jr”
(Master’s thesis, 1976).
O’Connor, J.F., “An Analysis of the Speaking Style of Heber
C. Kimball: Mormon Leader” (Master’s thesis, 1978).
Armstrong, R.N., “An Ideas Centered Approach to a Critical
Analysis of the Public Speaking of David O. McKay: Ninth President of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” (Ph.D. diss.,
1978)
Christensen, D.A., “An Analysis of the Speaking Style of Ezra
Taft Benson, 1943-1968)” (Master’s thesis, 1980)
Moss, L.D., “Attention-getting Factors in
Speeches of Paul H. Dunn and Norman Vincent Peale” (Master’s thesis, 1984).
[Author unidentified]: “Spencer W. Kimball as Extemporaneous
Speaker” (BYU Studies, 1985).
Jones, S.A.G., “Brigham Young’s Rhetoric: A Critical and Cultural
Analysis of Key Sermons in five Rhetorical Events” (Ph.D. diss, 1992).
Armstrong, R.N., “The Rhetoric of David O. McKay: Mormon
Prophet (1993)