The intent of this article is to attend to and legitimize humanistic education. Implied is the search for data as evidence of a humanistic school and classroom. Forms of evaluation are discussed. (Author/RK)

Examines the differences between three systems of categorizing verbal communication acts. (MH)

Studied maternal sensitivity as it related to the quality of attachment between 48 twelve-month-old infants and their mothers. Results suggested that different styles of maternal response to infant cues characterize secure, anxious-avoidant, and anxious-resistant attachment groups. (RJC)

The author discusses communication improvement strategies for personnel professionals. These include (1) thinking clearly, (2) focusing on audience response, and (3) categorizing to help readers relate ideas. (CH)

Two classrooms were studied to describe the forms and patterning of verbal overlaps in sharing-time narratives of 16 students (8-12 years old) with communicative disabilities. Videotape analysis revealed type and frequency of overlaps, type and frequency of the turn relations giving rise to overlap instances, and remedial tactics that appeared to…

Focuses on developing the capacity to differentiate between the inner child of our own past and the child being cared for in the present. Emphasizes the need for adults and children to communicate feelings, meanings, truth, and understanding. Several songs for children are included. (BJD)

Principals can improve their school's effectiveness by shaping the school's culture, and they play an important role in maintaining the content, symbols, and communication patterns in their schools. (MD)

A five-minute social skills training package, consisting of instructions, modeling, and rehearsal, which preceded the conversation, combined with verbal prompts during the conversation was found to be more effective than the use of the package without verbal prompts in training three employed adults to ask appropriate questions. (Author/CL)

Four autistic or autistic-like adolescents who participated in a family-style lunch program designed to promote appropriate interaction increased their social initiations, social responses, total words spoken per lunch period, and the mean number of words per comment. (CL)

This paper presents the geometric foundation and quantification of Agent-action-Objective (AaO) kinematics. The meaningfulness of studying the flows in verbal expressions through splitting and splicing the strings in a verbal flow related to the fact that free parameters are not needed since it is not required that the presented methodological…

Spaces of meaning are stratified to establish congruence among those belonging to the same semiotic "beams." Individuals may be geographically close yet unable to cooperate because they are not attuned to the same semiotic territory. Families of signs characterize each semiotic territory in which inhabitants are linked conceptually. Symbols and…

Discusses the positive aspects of verbalizing ideas in order to provide a frame of reference which serves to clarify the concept. (Author/HV)

Discussion of the nature of verbal communication as background to a literary theory. The literary aspect will be treated in part 2 of the article. (RS)

The persuasive effectiveness of metaphor may be accounted for, in part, by the evaluative responses which the receiver has to the verbal stimulus used metaphorically, and by the referents for the verbal stimulus.'' (Author)