Discusses the relationship between language and sexuality, between speech and love. (Author/AM)

Teachers' speech is discussed abstractly in terms of teaching moves reflecting decisions about verbal actions germane to immediate context, and sample exchanges between students and teachers are given. (Author/LH)

Study concludes that short-term listening is apparently an information processing skill that differs importantly from short-term memory and is related not only to a "delivery" factor but also to ability in oral communication. (JMF)

Reports results of a survey of the perceived quality of doctoral programs, from two samples of speech communication professionals. The results are presented for each sample separately and are broken down according to various specialties within the field of speech communication. (JMF)

Presents samples of entries from the ERIC database concerned with the design and administration of graduate programs in three clusters: (1) General Studies; (2) Of, By, and For Students; and (3) Speech Communication and Employability. (JMF)

Discusses the relationship between the brain, language, and communication in the following sections: (1) combining words, (2) language as a system, (3) language as a function of the brain, (4) the science of communication, and (5) language as a social institution. (NCR)

Presents a theory of questions, in the context of pragmatics. (AM)

Discusses specific activities for instituting participatory democracy as well as the benefits these activities have for departments that elect to engage in them. Uses the Communication Studies Department at San Jose State University as an exemplar. Highlights some projects to show one direction in which the public sphere seems to be changing. (PA)

Addresses the topic of discourse markers and, using the concepts of denial and contrast, with modifications, examines markers of contrast in English and Spanish. The article shows that the markers in each language correspond very closely in what they signal about the interpretation of the utterances of which they are a part. (Nine references)…

Explored the role of age of acquisition in picture naming with a group of unbalanced, late bilinguals and a group of monolinguals. Hypothesized that effects of second language (L2)age of acquisition on l2 picture naming performance would be found (Author/VWL)

Aims to help educators envision a critical pedagogy. Argues that the teaching of introductory communication skills can be reconceptualized as the teaching of cultural critique. States that, while skills competency is important, larger questions need to be asked, such as what competent communicators have to say and how they position themselves…

Examined the processing of potential auditory and visual cues that differentiate statements from echoic questions. Found that both auditory and visual cues reliably conveyed statement and question intonation, were successfully synthesized, and generalized to other utterances. (Author/VWL)

Comparison of the lexical characteristics of 88 auditory misperceptions showed no difference in word-frequency, neighborhood density, and neighborhood frequency between the actual and the perceived utterances. Another comparison showed that slip of the ear tokens had denser neighborhoods and higher neighborhood frequency than words in general.…

Effects of variation from stimulus to stimulus in emotional tone of voice on speech perception were examined through a series of perceptual experiments. Stimuli were recorded from human speakers who produced utterances in tones of voice designed to convey affective information. Stimuli varying in talker voice and emotional the where then presented…

This commentary on EC 232 373 and EC 232 374 suggests that a theory that depends on categorizing events as either stuttering or nonstuttering must fail. It evaluates the merit of the voluntary/involuntary distinction in loss of speech production control, defends research on the nature of stuttering, and proposes additional research and theory.…