Suggests that citizen band radio communication involving code names and coded language offers an opportunity for participation without personal commitment. (MH)

Reports the development of a Verbal Systems Analysis procedure for investigating significant form in verbal communications through a process which operationalizes two of the central concepts of form in Kenneth Burke's theory of symbolic action. (MH)

Described is the SICCS model (Social Interaction and Creativity in Communication System) for systematically analyzing behaviors associated with creativity. (DB)

The Segal Interaction Analysis Scale (SIAS)--a categorization of verbal behaviors--is described and its uses indicated for promoting effective and productive group discussions. (MB)

The author presents a methodological perspective on school and the educational process, viewing it as a dialectical phenomenon affecting both the institution and its participants, and uses the concept of "work" to illustrate the use of this perspective in educational research and evaluation. (MJB)

Each utterance of a psychotherapy session conducted by Carl Rogers was transcribed on a separate card. Fifteen undergraduate subjects reconstituted client-therapist sequences more accurately than therapist-client sequences. (Author)

Uses conversational analysis to investigate how people accomplish a specific enactment of their everyday lives. (MH)

Reports development as compared to age-related changes in maternal task instruction to children in their second year. Interactions of 12 mother-infant pairs involved with simple tasks were video-recorded bimonthly between the infants' 14th and 22nd month. Comparison revealed the superiority of the development-centered model of adaptation of…

Observations of direct-care staff behavior were made for 20 days at various locations in a large state-operated residential facility serving the developmentally disabled. Results demonstrated that five 15-minute weekday observations could provide reliable representative information concerning staff activities. (Author/DB)

The current status and condition of theory and method related to research on interactive teaching is examined. Alternative conceptions and methods are offered. (Author/MT)

The study measured the interactive values of peer tutoring and structured interaction activities on the rate and type of social initiations (cooperative or instructional) of nonhandicapped peers (N=4) toward students with autism (N=4). Results showed that structured interaction activities produced the highest rates of cooperation initiations.…

While most scholars view argument as a single conversational event, the interaction can be seen as a serial episode that occurs and recurs in everyday life. This essay presents a model of serial argument with supporting data. (PD)