The meaning of children's lexical innovations is distinguished from the forms they rely on to convey meaning. Children require knowledge of the context in order to judge how the meaning of their innovation can be conveyed to the addressee. This contextualization is often achieved by default, since children tend to limit their early conversations…

The titles of more than 3,000 theses and dissertations appearing between 1973 and 1978 were collected for this bibliography on speech communication and the theatre arts. They are presented within major classifications for the two main subject areas. Speech communication entries are classified as education, forensics, interpersonal communication,…

In examining the field of speech communication and its research, it is clear that most research has focused on linking (linking the individual with the human environment) and regulatory (the regulation of human behavior) behavior. However, the primary goal of human communication is mentation (the development of higher mental processes), and this…

Twenty-five groups, each consisting of one superior and three subordinates, participated in a problem-solving exercise to test the hypotheses that subordinates who are exposed to external conflict, in conjunction with their immediate superior, will perceive their immediate superior as more credible and more homophilous than those who are not…

The relationship between professionalism and professional organizations is examined in this paper. Standards of professionalism for speech communication personnel vary according to the specialization in this diverse field. Since guidelines can not prescribe accurately what a person trained in speech communication should know or perform in many…

Tryout results indicated that a speech and language program developed to improve employability of Corpsmen accomplished one of its two goals; that is, it taught Corpsment the concepts underlying the correct production of standard speech and language patterns. The program consisted of audio tapes, notebooks with pictorial and verbal stimulus…

This volume contains the proceedings of the Second National Colloquium on Oral History. The reported proceedings consist of the transcript of a panel of historians discussing oral history, a review of his own memoirs by Alfred A. Knopf, a paper on the literature of oral history, and an essay on oral history and libel laws. A summary of the…

This volume contains the proceedings of the First National Colloquium on Oral History, which dealt with the following aspects of oral history: justifications, uses, directions, approaches, techniques, objectives, and standards for the collection, study, and dissemination of an interdisciplinary range of materials in oral history. (The conferences…

This booklet focuses on folklore in America, with the aim of providing English teachers with a better understanding of the subject. Articles include (1) "Collecting Folklore" which is a discussion of the nature of folklore as well as beliefs, folk music, games, arts and crafts, and the collecting of folk material; and (2) "American Folk Tradition"…

This study was to determine if training in teaching strategies would result in use of a wider variety of teaching strategies. In the first training method used, a videotaped model of the strategies was shown to the trainees, and its elements analyzed and discussed. The trainees attempted to reproduce the strategy in microteaching situations. In…

This study presented a model which described and classified incoming students and recommended the type of instruction they should receive in the initial speech course. The sample population used was 104 university students in a basic speech course. Conclusions reached are: (1) There was a direct relationship between explicitness of instruction and…

An advanced speech course, structured around individual needs of students with some experience in interscholastic competition is outlined. Individual interests and skills development in interpretative speaking, original oratory, extemporaneous speaking, and legislative debate are pursued. Presented are: Performance Objectives; Course Content;…

An attempt to preserve stories from the oral tradition of the Seneca Indians of the Iroquois tribes is made in this volume. These stories draw on the philosophy and moral teachings of Handsome Lake, a Seneca prophet who was a spiritual leader to his people. The purpose of this English translation of Iroquois legends is to go directly to the…

This guide offers suggestions for several types of conferences, and is aimed at meeting the needs and interests of different audiences. The report stresses the importance of planning, organizing, and evaluating; it discusses program planning, physical arrangements, speakers, audience involvement, promotion, evaluation, and reporting the results.…

The child's development of productive control over the adults language system is seen as an outcome of the dynamic social discourse of parent and child. Traditional approaches to child language are reviewed and a dialectical analysis is developed using concepts from information theory and a general systems approach. (JMB)