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This study investigates the relationship between teacher verbal maze rate and student learning and the threshhold levels of maze rate on the perceived quality of teaching. The direct and mediated effects of maze rate on achievement are examined. A randomized group design with ten levels of the independent variable teacher maze rate was used. There…

How teachers methodically construct report card comments into organized social features is addressed through an examination of negotiation structures which organize anecdotes. Anecdotal comments are key communication devices which teachers employ for reporting. Four hundred and fifty anecdotal comments teachers wrote about students were collected…

This paper discusses the problem of indirect speech acts, as exemplified by "Can you pass the salt?" The paper begins with a brief review of the nature of the problem posed by such expressions. This is followed by a discussion of the role of pragmatics in linguistics, leading up to a discussion of "natural" as opposed to…

Among the many philosophic insights offered by Richard M. Weaver, rhetorical scholars have perhaps been most intrigued by his establishment of circumstance and definition as morally dichotomous sources of argument. Challenging Weaver's assumption that the identification of a rhetor's fact or genus preferences supplies necessary insights into the…

Thirty-nine 4- and 5-year-old lower socioeconomic status black children were administered a simple communication task in which the experimenter was either blindfolded or could see the array of toy referents. The results indicated that the majority of subjects gave appropriate responses in both the blindfolded and nonblindfolded conditions. (JMB)

Differences between Piaget's original studies of children's moral judgment and subsequent investigators' interpretations of those studies are discussed. (Author/JMB)

A wide variety of linguistic parameters designed to reflect verbal productivity and grammatical complexity were analyzed for 12 handicapped and 8 nonhandicapped preschool children. (Author/JMB)

Describes neurolinguistic programming (NLP) in the context of group counseling. NLP is a model of communication that focuses on verbal and nonverbal patterns of behaviors as well as on the structures and processes of human subjectivity. Five stages of group development are described, and specific NLP techniques appropriate to the various stages…

Analayzed transcripts of Three Approaches to Psychotherapy (Shostrom, 1966) for counselor and client representational system predicate use. Although different patterns of predicate use emerged, only limited support for Neurolinguistic Programming theory was found. The findings of different patterns of predicate use were related to convergence and…

Two studies of the exploratory behavior of preschool children and first grade students which used Hutt's novel object are reported. Results confirmed the assumption of a typical sequence of exploratory behavior and play. In contrast to a strong sequential hypothesis, subjects shifted between neighboring categories of exploratory behavior and…

The study examined the verbal language complexity and styles of 10 learning disabled and nondisabled sixth graders. Results indicated that LD boys had less complex verbal language; they could adjust verbal language and style to listener; and both LDs and non-LDs showed particular complementary communication styles. (Author/CL)

Exploring ontological, epistemological, and conceptual questions of his work, the author discusses three essential issues: interpreting meaning, the interpretive paradigm and the generalizability of findings, and instruction versus assessment. (MD)