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Pittam, Jeffery; Gallois, Cynthia – Communication Monographs, 1997
Examines the language strategies used in everyday explanation by young heterosexual Australian college students to attribute blame for the transmission of HIV. Finds that speakers blamed outgroups more than ingroups; blamed outgroups at higher levels of responsibility than ingroups; but did not use more justifications for ingroups. Notes overt…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, College Students, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis
Belme, Jillian; Gray, Anne – 1980
A language evaluation instrument was devised to assess the accuracy of program implementation by teachers of four Australian preschool programs. The Teacher Language Instrument (TLI) categorizes each verbal episode of a teaching interchange for both mode and function. Five general mode categories of teacher language behavior--statements,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries