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Eco, Umberto – 1979
The essays in this book focus on the role of the reader in textual interpretation. Specifically, they examine "open" and "closed" texts. The three essays in Part I deal with both verbal and nonverbal texts. The first considers musical compositions that leave considerable autonomy to the individual performer and also discusses…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Comics (Publications), Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Theory
Street, Richard L., Jr. – 1978
Sacks's description-by-categorization theory was tested in a study to determine how contextual information influences the interpretation of verbal messages. The technique of enjambed conversation (a transcription of a conversation void of punctuation and speaker designation) was used to produce two verbal messages, one "more related" the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comprehension, Context Clues, Higher Education
Johnson, Mary Canice – 1979
Dynamics of discussion in the classroom are analyzed based on data from 64 classrooms in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. Among the discourse problems considered are the separation of answers from questions, the relationship between the presupposition of an utterance and the speaker/hearer assumptions, and the relationship between utterance form and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Discussion
Churchill, Lindsey – 1978
An analysis of questioning strategies considers the kinds of responses that can be made to a question (different kinds of questions and their customary responses, and different kinds of response to the same kind of question). Additionally, the advantages/disadvantages to the use of the reproduction criterion in a sociological study are assessed.…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Discourse Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Competence
Peterson, Lizette; McCommis, Bruce – 1980
The norms of social responsibility and reciprocity govern altruistic behavior. Children and adults show a consistent developmental trend in comparisons of their responses to positive reciprocal situations and their subsequent altruism. Research indicates, however, that children, given the choice to behaviorally aid a needy individual, choose more…
Descriptors: Adults, Altruism, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Standards
Download full textHORNER, VIVIAN M.; SHER, ABIGAIL B. – 1967
A MAIN CONCERN OF THE 2 STUDIES DESCRIBED IN THIS PAPER WAS TO DEVELOP A METHOD OF COLLECTING LANGUAGE SAMPLES OF CHILDREN. IN THE BELIEF THAT LANGUAGE SHOULD BE STUDIED AS A PART OF SOCIAL INTERACTION, THE CHILDREN'S SPEECH WAS RECORDED AS IT WAS BEING USED IN FAMILAR HOME AND SCHOOL SETTINGS. IN THE FIRST STUDY (TO AVOID INTRODUCING ALIEN…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Ecological Factors, Electronic Equipment, Language Research
LASHIER, WILLIAM STANLEY – 1965
THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE VERBAL BEHAVIOR OF STUDENT TEACHERS AND THE ACHIEVEMENT AND SELECTED ATTITUDES OF EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS. TEN STUDENT TEACHERS PARTICIPATED IN A WORKSHOP DESIGNED TO PREPARE THE STUDENT TEACHERS TO TEACH SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY. THE STUDENT TEACHERS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR TEACHING A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Biology, Doctoral Dissertations
VAN EGMOND, ELMER; AND OTHERS – 1966
DESCRIPTIONS OF PHYSICAL FACILITIES, A VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL INTERACTION ANALYSIS MEASURED ON A (1) TASK-ORIENTING, (2) MAINTAINING SOCIAL ORDER, AND (3) FACILITATING SCALE, TEACHER INTERVIEWS, AND OBSERVER VERBAL REPORTS ASSESS A SELECTED SAMPLE OF CLASSROOMS WITHIN THE 1965 CAMBRIDGE SUMMER HEAD START PROGRAM. PERFORMANCE OF HEAD START AND…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Educational Facilities
Lanham, Raymond; And Others – 1980
Health professionals tend to view dying patients with two intertwined attitudes. On one hand the patient possesses an irreversible pathological condition and the doctor is obliged to help that patient embrace death with as much dignity as possible. On the other hand, the patient's imminent death is daily testimony to the limits of the doctor's…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Death, Health Personnel, Interaction
Kroll, Barry M. – 1979
Student writers must be aware of the limits and needs of their readers if they are to transmit messages with clarity and precision. Psychological research in referential communication and the development of social-cognitive skills supports the theory that a writer's egocentrism and audience awareness affect composition. At the high school and…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Blake, Ira Kincade – 1979
The influence of maternal language use patterns on the use patterns of the child was investigated in a black, low-income mother-child pair over a 20-month period, beginning at the child's 11th month of age. Video recordings were made of the pair's interaction in an unstructured playroom setting approximately every four weeks. Child multi-word…
Descriptors: Black Mothers, Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition
Evans, Thomas Parker – 1968
Developed was a category system for first-hand systematic observation of the verbal and non-verbal behavior of high school biology teachers in both classroom and laboratory situations. This was used to investigate correlations between selected personality traits and the verbal and non-verbal behaviors of high school biology teachers. Some…
Descriptors: Biology, Doctoral Dissertations, Evaluation, Instruction
Wixon, Vincent; Stone, Patty – 1977
The Talk-Write method of teaching college composition, developed by Robert Zoellner, can be adapted for use in secondary and upper elementary classrooms. The method, which focuses on the process of writing, involves teaming students in pairs. One student then talks out a composition, sentence by sentence, while the partner asks questions to draw…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Higher Education
Payne, Sandra S. – 1976
On the assumption that the verbal complexity of written examination materials used to select personnel for a job should be similar to the verbal complexity of materials that must be read and understood on the job, the Flesch Reading Ease Index was applied to samples of the reading materials required for successful entry-level job performance in…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Fire Fighters, Instructional Materials, Job Performance
Feldman, Robert S. – 1975
The present study explored the effect of verbal dissembling on nonverbal behavior. Subjects were 146 females who were led to be either truthful or deceptive verbally to a confederate. The underlying affective state of the subjects and the publicness of the interaction between subject and confederate were also varied experimentally. The nonverbal…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Rating Scales, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer)
