Students have social and personal needs to fulfill and communicate these needs in different ways. This annotated bibliographic review examined communication studies to provide educators of diverse classrooms with ideas to build an environment that contributes to student well-being. Participants in the studies ranged in age, ability, and cultural…

This annotated bibliography of sociolinguistics is divided into the following sections: speech events, ethnography of speaking and anthropological approaches to analysis of conversation; discourse analysis (including analysis of conversation and narrative), ethnomethodology and nonverbal communication; sociolinguistics; pragmatics (including…

Fifty-seven sources of verbal and nonverbal communications activities for use in elementary, secondary, or college classrooms are listed and described. Publishers' addresses and ordering information are given for most items. Annotations describe the type of activities in each book and provide an overall evaluation of each book's usefulness. (AA)

The result of a project funded by the Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture called Professional Knowledge and Research Base of Extension 4-H Youth Development (4hprk), this 18-item annotated bibliography represents a compilation of resources (on the topic of communication) most frequently identified by Extension 4-H…

The result of a project funded by the Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture called Professional Knowledge and Research Base of Extension 4-H Youth Development (4hprk), this 26-item revised annotated bibliography represents a compilation of resources (on the topic of communication) most frequently identified by Extension…

The 22 entries in this annotated bibliography represent articles that have lesbian women or gay men as subjects and that deal with a specific verbal or nonverbal communication factor. Topics covered in the entries include patterns of self-disclosure in homosexual and heterosexual college students, interpersonal conflict in homosexual relations,…

One hundred and twenty-five items are compiled in this bibliography which lists profitable books and where they can be located, and which gives descriptions of document content. The quality of the material referenced is judged by the use of one, two, or no asterisks denoting material judged to be very best, better than good, and good respectively.…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles discuss a variety of topics, including the following: (1) caregiver talk to toddlers in dyadic and polyadic care; (2) communication tactics for neutralizing verbal aggression; (3) physical attractiveness and nonverbal…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 26 titles deal with the following topics: United States Presidential rhetoric; the public speaking of David O. McKay; rhetorical analyses of the crisis in Northern Ireland, of the Americanization of the Zionist movement from 1896…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: (1) collective bargaining in higher education; (2) decoding nonverbal communication and clinical effectiveness; (3) the need for interpersonal communication training for Texas peace…

This analysis considers the deep purposes of communication, communication and relationship, relationship and nonverbal communication, projective and introjective perception, emotions and learning, the theory of dramaturgy applied to teaching, and some implications for the foreign language teacher. Communication is a special combination of…