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Ciolek, T. M.; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1979
References to the study of behavioral organization of face-to-face interaction are arrranged in alphabetical order by author. A subject classification of works in the bibliography is appended. (EJS)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Group Dynamics

Kendon, Adam – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Traces the development of an approach to studying face-to-face interaction that proposes to expound the rules or procedures of interaction and to account for observed behavior in terms of how it functions as a communicational system. A selective literature review and recommendations for further study are included. (EJS)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Group Dynamics, Interaction Process Analysis

Bell, Mae Arnold – Central States Speech Journal, 1983
Used a lexical statistics program to analyze conflict and nonconflict discussions of two different groups of college students. Found preliminary evidence for a pattern of greater redundancy and less vocabulary diversity for the discussion groups in conflict. (PD)
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs
Shields, M. M. – 1976
This paper examines some of the conversational skills manifested by children within a nursery group as they organize their own activities among themselves and cope with social and didactic demands of adults. Among the features examined are the number of active and passive participants within conversing groups, the intentions and pragmatic…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics, Interaction Process Analysis

Papademetre, Leo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1994
Investigates Greek and English language use among second- and third-generation bilinguals living in the Australian urban social context of Adelaide, where the dynamic process of code interaction has created a sociolinguistic continuum used to define in-group memberships on the basis of which part of the continuum is shared by whom. (40 references)…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Change Agents, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Background
von Raffler-Engel, Walburga; And Others – 1978
The correlation of verbal, paralinguistic, and kinesic features in the context of student-student and student-teacher interaction is studied in a semester linguistics course at Vanderbilt University. The purpose of the research is to delineate some of the major problems of group interaction in the college classroom and to show how the various…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Body Image, Body Language, Classroom Communication