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Pettegrew, Loyd S.; Turkat, Ira Daniel – Human Communication Research, 1986
Presents results from two studies of how lower-back-pain patients communicate to health care providers. Suggests specific directions for future research. (MS)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Problems, Communication Research, Communication Skills
Pickert, Sarah M.; Sgan, Mabel L. – 1977
Categories such as commanding, requesting, and explaining were used to analyze communicative intentions in conversations of 108 children, aged five through nine, during three sets of play activities varying in task specification and leadership role assignment. Results showed that the frequency and variety of communicative intention categories…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Language, Children, Communication Skills

Shimanoff, Susan B. – Journal of Communication, 1985
Studied one aspect of communication competency: how people express emotions through verbal behavior. Found, among other conclusions, that references to unpleasant emotions outnumber references to pleasant emotions almost two to one. (PD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Communication Research
Corsaro, William A. – 1978
Little is known about how children gain interpersonal access in settings where adults are not present or are unavailable. This study sought to describe children's strategies for access into and withdrawal from peer interactive episodes in a nursery school. Data were collected from direct observations of two groups of children. One group attended…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis
An Analysis of the Speech Adjustment of Second Grade Children to Variations in the Age of Listeners.
Plaskon, Stephen Paul – 1979
A sample of 48 middle and lower class kindergarten and second grade students participated in a study to determine what speech adjustments school-age children made for listeners of different ages. Half the second grade subjects learned about two performance tasks--a board game and constructing columns of colored blocks--from the researcher, after…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Child Language