Recent research indicates that fourteen linguistic and paralinguistic patterns--thought to measure uncertainty, vagueness, dependence, and negative affect--discriminate between men's truth telling and deceptive language behavior. This study sought to determine if these same patterns also discriminate between women's truth telling and deceptive…

Discusses semiotics, which, in dealing with how meaning is communicated, views language as only one component of communication activity. Gives special attention to the new perspectives which semiotics has given to the study and teaching of intonation. (FB)

Each culture has its own nonverbal as well as its verbal language. Movements, gestures and sounds have distinct and often conflicting interpretations in different countries. For Americans communicating with Japanese, misunderstandings are of two types: Japanese behavior which is completely new to the American, and Japanese behavior which is…

Information gathered from one and a half years of interviews with anthropologists, psychologists, ethologists, sociologists, and psychiatrists provides the source of answers for the questions this book addresses: How much do we communicate with words, and how much with gestures, postures, and movement? What can we learn from the study of nonverbal…

Current linguistic theory rigidly compartmentalizes the "cognitive," linguistic aspects of human communication and the presumed "emotive," paralinguistic elements that occur in both human and nonhuman communication. The segmental phonetic units of human speech, according to this view, are supposed to convey linguistically relevant information,…

To understand the Spanish speaker one must be aware of the many facets of Hispanic culture and the various means of communicating that language and that culture. The two main forms of communication, linguistics and paralinguistics, convey the speaker's behavior and identify him as a member of the Hispanic culture. Linguistic patterns in Spanish…

THIS PROGRAMED "LEARNER'S HANDBOOK" IS DESIGNED TO BE USED IN THE "SPEECH-COMMUNICATION LEARNING SYSTEM" IN THE SPEECH COMMUNICATION CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. THE PURPOSE OF THE COURSE, INTENDED PRIMARILY FOR SPEAKERS OF NON-STANDARD ENGLISH DIALECT IN HAWAII, IS TO "DEVELOP A STYLE OF SPEECH WHICH IS INTELLIGIBLE AND ACCEPTABLE IN A…

THIS VOLUME CONTAINS THE SCRIPTS OF THE TAPED MATERIALS TO BE USED WITH THE "LEARNER'S HANDBOOK" IN THE "SPEECH-COMMUNICATION LEARNING SYSTEM" AT THE SPEECH COMMUNICATION CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. SEE RELATED DOCUMENT AL 001 314. (AMM)

A consensus has prevailed among educators that Americans of verying ethnic, social, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds who must communicate with each other in social, academic, and occupational situations might achieve a greater degree of rapport if the dialect of the English mutually spoken and the speech mannerisms used were standardized.…