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Steingart, Irving; And Others – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1975
The language behavior of field-dependent and field-independent female college students was examined in three different communication conditions with respect to length and type of verbal output. The conditions were dialogue, warm monologue, and cold monologue. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: College Students, Dialogs (Literary), Discourse Analysis, Females
MacWhinney, Brian; Bates, Elizabeth – 1976
Children and adults speaking English, Hungarian, and Italian were asked to describe sets of pictures which manipulated the pragmatic category of givenness. The working hypothesis was that there exist rule-governed relations between the perception of certain categorical aspects of the communicative situation and the use of certain conventional…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cross Cultural Studies