Investigates verbal and nonverbal communication patterns that help speakers and listeners define conversational relationships. (MH)

Reports a study of 61 secondary school students in which a theoretical explanation of structure in communication was used to create science communications of different levels of structure and to determine the effects of these treatments on knowledge acquisition. (GS)

Evaluates a microtraining approach for training situationally nonassertive clients in assertive expression. Procedure included individualized training situations and a test of generalization. Microtraining, regardless of feedback type, increased self-rated and objectively rated assertiveness, compared to an insight-oriented counseling control.…

Results suggest that knowledge of student learning outcomes and reduction of intent action discrepancy have minimal impact on teacher decisions to modify classroom procedures. (Author/BJG)

This paper explores the origins and correct use in Spanish of "tu,""vos" and "Usted." Corroboration for the points made is sought in ancient and contemporary literature. (Text is in Spanish.) (CK)

The verbal behavior of two groups of nine tenth-grade boys who met for eight sessions in an unstructured group discussion was studied. Verbal behavior was encoded using a modified version of Bales' interaction process analysis. (Author/BJG)

From "Educational Leadership/Research Supplement, v2 n5 May 1969, edited by the Research Council of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (James Raths, Chairman).

Research supported by Public Health Service Research grant MH-03860 from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Research supported by a Public Health Service Fellowship (5TL MH-6668-06) from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Revision of paper presented at the Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Division 25 (Washington D.C., September 1, 1967).

The purposes of this study were to examine (1) the extent to which three-year-old children converged noncontent speech to that of adults and (2) whether a talkativeness-reticence factor influenced the degree of convergence. Four three-year-old girls individually interacted with six to eight unfamiliar adults in free-play settings. From…

The medieval study of classical rhetoric reached its zenith in the twelfth century. Rhetoric in its medieval phase can be divided into four distinct subdisciplines: "ars praedicandi," or the preaching art; "ars dictaminis," or the art of letter writing; "ars poetriae," which focused on style and developed elaborate theories of versification; and…

This paper describes a study on the nature of the linguistic information presented in children's television programs which was conducted to compare the verbal communication features of different types of programs, determine whether there were adjustments of linguistic information that would facilitate young children's linguistic processing, and…