This volume, designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, addresses the research needs of behavioral scientists interested in various facets of speech-communication and provides a theoretical point of departure for investigating speech as a behavioral science. Chapters 1-7 provide the background and strategy for the formulation of…

Discusses several philosophies of linguistics and semiotics that debate the importance of words and their relationship to signs, language as the primary modeling system, and the historical primacy of verbal versus visual communication. Describes human communication as both language-based and nonverbal, both aspects inviting arbitrary and abstract…

The articles in the collection discuss the theory and practice of seven Educational Sciences. These are the basic elements of a conceptual framework for the education profession proposed by Joseph E. Hill in the belief that if educators are to establish mutual understandings of educational problems and phenomena, a unifying conceptual framework…