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Branham, Robert James – Communication Quarterly, 1980
Identifies four strategies used to communicate experiences that are beyond expression: silence, qualified expression, poetic expression, and antiexpression. Maintains that, although these strategies violate normal expectations of efficient message transactions, they occasionally succeed remarkably in communicating understanding and thus present a…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Conflict

Owen, William Foster – Education, 1984
Sensory metaphors--based on visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, or gustatory sensation--are pervasive in everyday communication. Teachers can improve communication with students by learning to recognize sensory metaphors, matching their own sensory language with that of their students, maximizing sensory channels, and teaching sensation and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education