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Huth, Thorsten – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2013
This paper investigates how instances of language use can serve as analytic anchors for insight into interactional development over time. I present a usage-based, longitudinal study of multi-turn sequences underlying telephone openings in order to specify if and to whom "language learning" may be relevantly ascribed. Two successive…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Language Usage, German, Transcripts (Written Records)
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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
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Alexander, Alison; And Others – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1984
Demonstrates through a case study and a participant observation study that siblings interact about television in such a way that the form and content of their talk creates a learning context. Concludes that, despite concerns about "zombie" viewers, children are not passive, unresponsive recipients of television. (PD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Communication Research, Interaction
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Scotton, Carol Myers; Ury, William – Linguistics, 1977
A study of code-switching, the use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same interaction. Code-switching as interpreted in this study is a meta-interactional cue which is activated to signal a change in direction of the interaction. Such a response to the interaction process is considered significant. (AMH)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Influences, Interaction
Diez, Mary E. – 1983
A study examined variation in code choice in the same speakers in two contrasting situations--interorganizational and intraorganizational bargaining. Naturalistic interactions between teams of teacher's union bargaining agents, role-playing teachers, and school board members in the two settings were coded, using measures of structural and lexical…
Descriptors: Adults, Code Switching (Language), Collective Bargaining, Communication Research
Farrar, Mary Thomas – 1985
In a sociolinguistic study of five transcripts of high school discussions, two analyses were conducted. The first was a detailed qualitative analysis of the data, which combined paralinguistic features with three perspectives: a speech act analysis, a conversation analysis, and an interaction analysis. In the second, more quantitative analysis,…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Group Discussion, Interaction
Kochman, Thomas – 1979
After describing scenes that reveal a pattern in which whites regard blacks' speech behavior as threatening, aggressive, or hostile, and in which blacks disagree with their interpretation, this paper explores differences between black and white cultural assumptions, values, and conventions of aggressive behavior to account for the different…
Descriptors: Aggression, Black Attitudes, Black Culture, Communication Problems
Abruzzese, Anthony A. – 1979
Educational cognitive style refers to a person's preferred ways of gathering meaning from surroundings. It involves four groups of behaviors: receiving, expressing, reasoning, and handling the receiving/expressing in specific settings or modalities. A comparison of communication and educational cognitive style shows that several ideas are common…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), English Instruction
Pinnell, Gay Su – 1977
The many ways in which children use language are examined in this paper, and classroom implications are outlined. The first part of the paper discusses such topics as young children's focus on meaning in language, teachers' tendency to examine language in terms of form rather than meaning, and the importance of the student/teacher interaction…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Environment, Early Childhood Education, Interaction
HURLEY, OLIVER L. – 1967
NOTING THAT RECENT RESEARCH POINTS TO LINGUISTIC CODE DIFFERENCES AS AN IMPORTANT FACET OF CULTURAL DEPRIVATION AND THAT THE MAJORITY OF EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED (EMR) CHILDREN COME FROM LOW SOCIOECONOMIC LEVELS, IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT ONE OF THE KEYS TO LEARNING FOR EMR CHILDREN IS THE COMPLEXITY OF THE TEACHER'S LANGUAGE IN RELATION TO THAT…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary School Students, Exceptional Child Research
Elliott, M. M.; Washburn, W. V. – 1977
This pamphlet is the second in a series of ten stemming from the view that language is central to learning, that teachers can gain insights into their work and into learning by examining the language of the classroom, and that current language theory can be the means to such insights. The pamphlet contains a description of a study designed to…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discussion (Teaching Technique), Expressive Language, Group Discussion