Studies the relationships among student teachers' communication skills, motivation, and knowledge in relation to their perceived effectiveness. Concludes that communication skill instruments may help in differentiating successful from unsuccessful student teachers. (MS)

Confirms that both kindergarten and third-grade children communicate more accurately about familiar referents than about novel referents in a referential task. (PD)

Reviews recent research on deceptive communication and presents a study to measure the influence of verbal cues, nonverbal cues, and interrogative probes on detectibility of deception. (MS)

Presents a study testing the ability of "trained" and "untrained" undergraduates to perceive stylistic differences in samples of business writing. Concludes that both groups have difficulty identifying tested differences, "trained" students having only a modes advantage. (MS)

Examines same-sex and opposite-sex touching as well as controlling touch. Concludes that females initiate more touching, both opposite- and same-sex, and that they specifically initiate more control touching. (MS)

Argues for a redefinition of narcissism as pathological communication, rather than egoism or individualism. Contends that such a definition has heuristic advantages. Suggests directions for further research. (MS)

Reports on a study to determine the communication needs of various professions. Results indicated that communication is equally important for the professions represented in the study and though oral and written communications are both perceived as important, those questioned spent twice as much time using oral communication. (SRT)

Discusses glosses, that is, formulations which, on their occurrence, are adequate but which turn out to have been incomplete, ambiguous and perhaps misleading. Examines the ways in which a coparticipant's activities may result in a speaker either maintaining or revealing the gloss. (SED)

Communicative adjustments of nonhandicapped preschool children addressing developmentally delayed companions were evaluated for their effectiveness and appropriateness. Behavior-request episodes in which initial failure had occurred were analyzed, and sequences of interactions were tracked within episodes until some form of resolution was…

Advances the development of a classification system, based on the salient speech act distinctions made by ordinary people, which can be of practical use in characterizing extended segments of discourse. Presents an attempt to use speech act theory in the quantitative study of interpersonal communication. (HTH)

Affirms the value of liberal arts in educating the mind. Examines the literature of oral interpretation and theatre arts from 1960-82, discussing themes, research problems and needs, trends and directions. Notes, among other conclusions, that the nature of classroom practices in oral interpretation and theatre arts needs study. (PD)

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)

Supports the "functional" view that it is the satisfaction of critical task requirements (or conditions), rather than the discussion procedures that are employed to do so, that actually determines whether a group will arrive at a low- or high-quality decision. (PD)

Suggests how Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" has import for the understanding of both the theory and practice of communication. (PD)

Confirmed the findings of earlier research (EJ 252 081) on the importance of listening skills across all nursing relationships. Found, however, that of greater significance was the need for an array of communication skills in the nurse-administrator relationship, including such skills as advising, persuading, managing conflict, etc. (PD)