Background: Research about sport pedagogy has recently emerged as a significant interest in student reflective practice within the PE teaching/learning system. This learning process is considered as a type of knowledge of co-construction in action. This epistemological assumption postulates that the "knowledge-in-action" is the result of an active…

Although widely used, the term "interpersonal communication" does not have a commonly accepted definition which distinguishes it from several other types of communication. This paper examines this lack of specificity, as reflected in basic textbook definitions of the term, with regard to three dimensions of the interpersonal process: materials and…

This paper formulates a semiotic metatheory (theory of change) of human communication, in six analytical steps: First, semiology indicates that the coding function in communication relies on the nature of the signifier and the signified. Second, the nature of coding (as distinct from its function) is best described by social systems theory. Third,…

In response to need for framework within which to fit therapeutic interventions, introduces some theoretical considerations about relevancy of communications to disrupted marriages. Presents advisable cases for counselor intervention. (Author)

The "logos" concept of Martin Heidegger's phenomenological philosophy refers to a perceptual attunement to "Being," or reality as a whole, which is prior to language. Logos includes every way in which people interpret, constitute, and interact with their world. Language is seen as prior to our awareness of Being, as well as…

The purpose of these studies was to determine if a speaker using relatively restricted language would be judged more negatively by middle class listeners than a speaker using relatively elaborated language. The subjects for the first experiment were sixty-three volunteers from an indergraduate speech class. Two versions of a message were recorded…

The current development of a communication theory known as coordinated management of meaning is presented in this report. The communication process is modeled as an open system; human actors constitute component subsystems with the ability to organize their cognitions into constitutive and regulative rules. The conjoining of individuals' rule sets…

While rhetorical theory has long been concerned with the epistemological foundations of rhetorical abilities, the full potential of the structuralist perspective is far from realized. The study of speech acts and inventive processes discloses the underlying logic of linguistic performance. A speech act is conceptualized in terms of the…

The paper presents a nontechnical analysis of the philosophical theory of speech acts as a paradigmatic explanation of interpersonal communication. A contrast is drawn between the idea that meaning is "in people" and the speech act theory that meaning is an interpersonal construct. There are nine conditions of interpersonal communication that must…

Designed to help readers improve their interpersonal skills, this book encourages its readers to examine interaction from the receiving point of view in terms of how people are shaped and affected by what they listen to in their own speech and in the speech of others. Communicative experience is emphasized and suggested assignments are provided in…

Ideologizing is presented as the function of innate intrapersonal and interpersonal categorizing of experience. Ideologies flourish in open systems and decline in closed ones. Classical conceptions of science illustrate the process, to the end that an autonomous scientific ideology for the social sciences, including communication, is suggested.…

Communicative "incidents" in a research and development organization are assigned to three theoretical clusters: the power advancement cluster, the power pressure cluster, and the central figure cluster, to produce predictive generalizations about organizational communication. (JMF)

Speaking and listening should be taught as related activities. (DD)

Reports an exploratory investigation of the relationships among elementary school principals' ability to think abstractly, their perceived leadership styles, and the degree of complexity of their school interpersonal environments. A positive relationship exists between principals' complexity of conceptual structure and the degree of complexity of…

This paper presents a model of communication's potential role in international development, suggesting that communication specialists use the model to help international development agencies reach their idealized goals. The model proposes that communication specialists follow five ethical principles: concentrate on process rather than program;…