Presents a brief bibliographical study in order (1) to provide future historians with some hints about where to locate materials, and (2) to encourage the American Forensic Association to continue its recent efforts to collect materials and deposit them in a well-maintained historical archive. (NH)

Private speech was studied in preschool-age children to determine how widely and with what characteristics it occurs when examined in the familiar home setting. Activities were selected that required several steps and that were intended to engage working memory or longer-term recall. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted on the…

Contributes to scholarship advancing the understanding of human communication by examining A. Solzhenitsyn's 1978 address "A World Split Apart," and the intense critical reaction that followed. Examines the speech as a Jeremiad. Suggests that even though the speech conforms to the genre's touchstones, it may have been addressed to an…

Examined the involvement of derivational word morphology in speech production processes using the word order competition technique to induce a special kind of verbal slip among college students. Results indicated that, in laboratory induced verbal slips, the morphemic components of derived words have a much higher probability of being involved in…

Discusses briefly events (including a 1998 summer conference, a report, and a 1999 Pre-Conference) leading up to this themed issue on public relations teaching. Introduces the seven remaining articles in the issue which represent six different content areas to be covered in a public relations curriculum, and which reflects recommendations for…

Investigated the role that irony mapping, absurdity comparison, and argumentative convention play in interpreters' derivations of speaker's intentions in using rebuttal analogies. Three rebuttal types were rated on argumentativeness and social attack in verbal conflict and nonverbal conflict scenarios. Results found that analogies with ironic…

Results from a new analysis of synchronous acoustic and fleshpoint-kinematic data, recorded from 53 normal young-adult speakers of American English, are reported. The kinematic data represent speech-related actions of the tongue blade and dorsum, both lips, and the mandible, during the test words, "special" and "problem," and were drawn from an…

Presents sign language as a central fact in the life of deaf individuals and groups and therefore as a focus for educational efforts. Looks at the different ways languages are presented to the eye instead of the ear, examines bilingualism and its special life in the life and education of deaf persons, and shows teachers ways to ask and answer…

Investigates the role of performance limitations in children's early acquisition of verb-argument structure. Tested Valian's (1991) claims that intransitive frames are easier for children to produce early in development than transitive frames, because they do not require a direct object argument. (Author/VWL)

Discusses a study of oral communication's place in the English language arts curriculum of K-12 schools based on a telephone survey of all 50 states and an examination of curriculum frameworks. Analyzes major conceptual bases and organizational patterns. Finds that over 60% of the frameworks give extensive treatment to oral communication, but…

Discusses the cultural/historical nature of teaching, drawing on Bakhtin's theory of speech genres to approach classroom discourse as a composite genre reflecting the history of teaching in each locality. Analysis of a lesson observed in a rural Mexican school shows how genres drawn from various sources convey different sorts of knowledge as they…

Focuses on the semantic-conceptual structure that contains the ideas and information a speaker wishes to convey to a listener. Reviews the status of temporal cycles using appropriate design and statistical procedures. Explores the correlates and dynamics of temporal cycles in spontaneous spoken discourse. (Author/VWL)

Describes how tapes and transcripts from student-tutor pairs in adult literacy groups were examined to analyze the transition from speech to writing. Discusses the difference between written and spoken English. Provides examples of how passages were transcribed. (JOW)

Claims that oral communication across the curriculum (OCXC) offers unique pedagogical advantages in three areas: (1) active learning; (2) discipline-specific application of communication; and (3) continued instruction and practice throughout college for non-communication majors. Provides a guide for administrators and faculty in developing OCXC…

Discusses issues related to orality, aurality, and literacy in the teaching and understanding of mathematics. Also discusses ritual and tradition in mathematics instruction. (MM)