The project, by 11 Lees Junior College students, aims to record the histories and recollections of senior citizens in the area, put them in the college library, and make them available to historians and folklorists upon request. (NQ)

The spoken word is central to human communication. (MM)

The value of communication is stressed. (MM)

Communication aesthetics" indicates clearly that our concerns transcend the folly of a narrow, conventional concept of performance; simultaneously, the label is an intensely mixed matrix whose pull is toward new views of the symbolic process-views that stress the complexity and the urgency of aesthetic aspects of language. (Author)

The author presents an offering of titles in drama and oral communications. (Editor/AS)

Using tape recordings to preserve and enhance oral educational history. (RA)

Calls for personal involvement in political action by speech professionals. Cites the example and ideas of the Home Economics Division of the American Vocational Association. (PD)

Investigates the role of language in society from the theoretical framework of the sociology of knowledge. (EKN)

Reviews some of the literature on issues and cases in freedom of expression and First Amendment rights used in teaching a speech communication class about "Issues in Free Speech." (JMF)

Shows that the heart rate acceleration of 16 infants ranging in age from 8 to 16 months consistently began well before the onset of crying. This suggests that heart rate acceleration is not merely a by-product of crying but that it is associated with negative affect. (JMB)

Attempts to identify the point at which prelinguistic vocalizations are used by infants as a means of communication. A significant relationship between Piagetian causal developmental level and the occurrence of intentional vocalizations was found in a study of 46 infants with a mean age of 10.7 months. (JMB)

Extends the information from the 1994 Speech Communication Association (SCA) Graduate Directory, using the directory as a database. Generates cumulative and summary data. Recommends the inclusion of such data to extend information in the next graduate directory. (PA)

Reports on two experiments that focus on clause boundaries in Japanese that suggest that minimal change restriction is unnecessary to characterize reanalysis. Proposes that the data and previous observations are more naturally explained by a constraint-driven model in which revisions are performed only when required by parsing constraints.…