Identifies factors involved in nonverbal and verbal communicative behaviors which constitute feedback responses. Examines the informational potential of these behaviors in terms of the receivers' perceptions of themselves and the message sender and the effectiveness and efficiency with which receivers respond to a given message. (JMF)

Studies viewers' impressions of husbands and wives in four Ingmar Bergman films in terms of socio-intellectual status, dynamism, and aesthetic quality. The agreement of viewer ratings indicates that viewers reacted more in tune with the underlying symbolic significance of characters than did most critics. (JMF)

Classroom verbal behaviors of home economics teachers in relation to self-actualization of the teacher were analyzed. No significant differences were found between the two teacher groups (selected on the basis of their degree of self-actualization) as analyzed by the Sequential Analysis of Verbal Interaction. (JH)

Investigated the teachability of 11 consultation-related skills. Concluded that experimental group subjects significantly outperformed the control group subjects in Verbal Consultation on the posttest but experimental and control groups did not differ significantly in Nonverbal Consultation. (Author)

A report is given of a study on how young children develop social skills in situations where rules are adapted to the flow of conversation. (JD)

Social feedback was investigated as a treatment strategy for reducing inappropriate verbalizations by a retarded adult in a vocational-training program. Treatment procedures were introduced as a combination of three components: praise for not verbalizing inappropriately, reprimands, and instruction. (Author)

Results suggest that chronological age and maturity affect preferences. The level of communication is critical. Age and, to a lesser degree, facilitation impress female subjects. Males appear more affected by facilitation. (Author)

The results indicated that the nonhandicapped Ss appropriately adapted their interactions in a manner that would suggest an increased likelihood that messages would be understood and responded to. In addition, the modified interactions appeared to be consistent with the communicative goals of the speaker and the social roles of the participants.…

Investigates the processes by which children develop basic morphological categories of plants and learn to relate such categories to one another by inclusion and contrast. Suggests that the parallel thought sequences observed in random subjects engaged in this task may reflect universals of perception and cognition. (PMJ)

The goodness of fit of a first-order Markov chain model to six counseling interviews was assessed by using chi-square tests of homogeneity and simulating sampling distributions of selected process characteristics against which the same characteristics in the actual interviews were compared. The model fit four of the interviews. Presented at AERA,…

The verbal interactions of 20 mothers with their children, who were between 1.9 and 5.0 years old, were recorded and analyzed. (SB)

Discusses reasons for including prosody in the management of language impairment in children and presents a classification framework that includes four categories of prosodic problems: dysprosody (pitch, loudness, duration, and pausing), prosodic disability (tempo, intonation, stress, and rhythm), prosodic disturbance (interaction disruption), and…

Examines the indirect strategies applied in the relationship between power and language, with particular reference to Eastern (Asian) verbal context. Argues that indirectness is both a form of politeness where a speaker avoids expressing himself explicitly and a style of formulating speech acts, which has an inherent pragmatic role. (32…

Examines various processes of verbalizing in mathematics teaching. Describes several types of communication between school students and gives some examples for tasks. Interpretations for didactical concepts based on ideas about mathematical modeling, heuristic-experimental working, and also work with sequences of questions in mathematics teaching…

Examines the perception of flaming (hostile verbal behavior) in electronic mail by exploring, in the context of five escalating levels of socioemotional intensity, the effects of pictographs (typographic symbols used to express emotion) and quoting. Results suggest pictographs and quoting can vary in perceived intensity and meaning, depending on…