Describes an exercise designed to make students aware of the inferential process and its relevance in persuasion. (PD)

Addresses the issue of the relationship of ethics and speech communication, with emphasis on the distribution of responsibility among theorists, critics, researchers, practitioners, teachers, and students. (PD)

Shows that speech is the primary means by which humans become linked to society and is thus a significant factor in the development of self-concept and decentration. (PD)

Presents a plan that allows business education teachers to interweave subject matter content with communication skills so that students may acquire the ability to speak and write clearly. (NRJ)

Suggests that class assignments include activities outside the school which will allow students to apply newly acquired information and skills to real life situations. (PD)

This paper focuses on one of the central concepts of Mikhail Bakhtin's philosophy of language: his theory of the utterance as speech genre. Before exploring speech genres, the paper discusses Bakhtin's ideas concerning language--both language as a general system, and the use of language as particular speech communication. The paper considers…

History of the recent past is preserved by the use of the tape recorder in 3 Appalachian projects. (PS)

Pointe Coupee is a Louisiana parish. (DD)

The reserach reported here is aimed at discovering principles of human communication that may be useful in the design of conversational computers of the future. (4 references) (Author)

Reviews theree stages through which communication passes and the media which transmit words in each stage while affecting the psychological structures in the culture. Emphasizes that each successive stage does not wip out preceding ones, but rather causes them to operate in new ways. (MB)

The need to teach standard American English in the schools of the United States is defended. (DB)

This study was designed to assess some of the differences in the information about the speaker which is communicated by conversational" and dynamic" styles of nonverbal vocalic communication. The experiment and results are discussed by the authors. (Author/MS)

A survey of 26 businesses and 12 schools in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was conducted to ascertain the emphasis which should be given to oral communication training by business educators. In general, both groups favored improving oral communication. (CH)

The author describes a workshop he gave on the application of microcomputers in special education in which the voice recognition capacity of the computer was able to understand the speech of a deaf teacher. It marked the first time in his life that his speech was understood. (CL)