Introduces the articles that follow on empathic listening. Points out the need for communication teachers to rethink the fundamental nature of the listening process in order to improve listening research and teaching. (PD)

Reviews the basic assumptions on which linear and branching programed-instruction methods are based. Speculates about why these methods did not take hold in communication education: nature of the materials, economics of programed instruction, and the attitudes of teachers. (PD)

Reviews definitions of accreditation and provides a summary of the advantages and disadvantages of accreditation. Considers the impact accreditation would have on the speech communication discipline. (PD)

Discusses advantages and disadvantages of adopting a process of accreditation in the field of speech communication. (PD)

Argues that the need for accreditation of speech communication programs cannot be demonstrated and, instead, monies and energies should be expended on effective teaching, research, and community service. (PD)

Discusses the theme of the 1978 Southern Speech Communication Association Convention, "Many Interests, One Concern," in relation to the shared communication heritage of the divergent professional interests represented. The antiquity of human communication points up the importance of the concern with speech communication and suggests…

Describes research on the ways in which children of ages 5 to 11 years maintain conversation with adults in situations of conceptual or linguistic difficulty. (SS)

Assesses television influences on infants six months of age at home. Sound only, picture only, sound plus picture, or a control stimulus of unpatterned sound plus picture conditions were designed. Findings demonstrate that infants attend to the naturalistic presentation of television stimulation and respond differentially to its visual and…

Discusses discourse rules and their function, as seen within different theoretical orientations toward pragmatic aspects of language. (AM)

This paper presents a taxonomy of Japanese discourse types, patterned after the approach of Longacre. The types are: dialogue, narrative, procedural, expository, and hortatory. Salient features are pointed out and analyzed. (CHK)

Examines the emergence of social documentary photojournalism in the 1930s and its ideological implications. Examines James Agee and Walker Evans's "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" as representative of the tensions between individualism and collectivism at the heart of liberal democracy. (SR)

Analyzes restarts, a common feature of conversation, in literary discourse. The term "restart" refers to the repetition of a word or words within an utterance by the same speaker. Restarts in literary discourse are of two types: (1) those produced by the characters in their "real" narrative world and (2) those produced by the narrators themselves.…

Examined mothers' speech to 2-year-old children in both quiet and moderately noisy conditions. Mothers were recorded while teaching their children two words, one of which occurred in the context of other people speaking. Parents used characteristics of infant-directed speech (IDS) to these older children. In addition, many of the prosodic changes…

This article focuses on the interactional tasks for which direct reported speech (DRS) is used. DRS is defined as the reproduction of words produced by someone else on another occasion. (33 references) (CK)

Five French specific syllabification procedures were compared and contrasted both against each other, using lexical analysis, and against human syllable boundary replacement, using a metalinguistic syllable repetition task. Results are discussed. (Author/VWL)