Reports on the internship program in speech communication (telecommunications) at Youngstown State University since 1976. Covers length of internship, student hours in workplace, academic credit, remuneration, selection and student requirements. (PD)

The author, a Fulbright Lecturer at Osaka University, discusses debate in Japan and the Japanese value system with its deference to age and authority. (PD)

Introduces a symposium that considers the mission of the community college and how the speech communication program can facilitate this mission. (PD)

This paper discusses mimesis, the direct representation and total imitation of an event. It studies the co-occurrence of quotative verbs with mimetic enactment based on two corpora of U.S. American English, both available through the University of Pennsylvania Data Consortium. The Switchboard Corpus has 542 speakers ranging in age from 20-60 years…

In many cultures, the "troubles-talk narrative" is a speech event which builds solidarity between interlocutors through the indirect speech act of complaining and through face-saving strategies such as speaker "hedges" and listener "commiserative responses" as backchannels. The manner in which speakers perform such…

As the Internet is becoming more and more of a commonplace technology in the Western world, many communication programs have begun to offer technology-related communication courses. Usually, these classes require students to create a Web site. A good Web site, however, requires more than colored text, a few graphics, and a few links. This paper…

Speech conditions of emission can result in influences on the speaker, leading to dramatic changes in the speaker's speech production. However, most studies performed on the "speaking styles" restrict their observations to very contrasted situations and compare so-called "spontaneous" speech to the "laboratory"…

As part of research on social representations of languages, bilingualism, and bilingual education carried out in the Aosta Valley, this article analyzes other contexts suggested by speakers in the Aosta Valley. It defines speech situations where associations, comparisons, or oppositions to other bilingual realities appear. Finally, on the basis of…

When covering persuasion in the basic speech communication course, many textbooks include information on how students can detect logical fallacies in the persuasive attempts of others. It is important to provide students with a hands-on experience that will help them apply their knowledge of logical fallacies so that they can retain and better use…

Speech teachers and singing teachers have much in common. Both attempt in their teaching to develop the most powerful and effective instrument possible while trying to avoid vocal problems. Both have studied the physiology of the vocal mechanism to assist them in their teaching. Both are concerned with the expressive qualities of the voice as well…

A review of the problems of obtaining historically sound oral history. (CH)

The International Parents' Organization, a section of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, has the purpose of providing assistance to parents of hearing handicapped children. (DB)