Narratives from part-Hawaiian children 5 to 12 years old in a variety of circumstances were collected for several years. Typical verbal routines, ways of analyzing the data, tendency of routines to structure speech events, functions of nonnarrative routines in narrative performance, and establishing a context for narration are considered. (EJS)

The article describes the relationship between communication and career education and identifies specific oral communication needs in the five occupational clusters recognized by the Illinois Office of Education (agriculture, business and management, health, industry, and services). (MF)

A response to the statement of the Conference on College Composition and Communication on "Students' Right to Their Own Language," based on comparison of the writing and talking processes. (DD)

Describes the results of preliminary experiments to investigate the effects of communications medium (face-to-face and two-way closed circuit television) on the fundamental frequency of speakers in a dyadic communications situation. (JMF)

Examines the question of how adults define "expression" and whether "communication" can be taught. (AM)

Uses an instructional perspective to investigate the potentials and problems concerned with the documentary film form and suggests materials and methods that might be used in implementing an instructional approach which delimits parameters in the documentary area. (MH)

Explores the unique speech communication classroom environment which often encourages both vulnerability and growth potential and suggests that such an environment demands consideration of student's interpersonal rights. Presents a class activity and a sample 'bill of rights' for speech communication students. (MH)

Offers an assignment which heightens student awareness of media effects and appropriateness through the simulation experience of planning and executing a persuasive campaign using print, audio and audio-visual media. (MH)

Describes a public address curriculum based upon a different way of conceptualizing public address. (Author)

Four defining characteristics of a dialogic approach to communication; shows each to be grounded in Husserlian phenomenology, existential phenomenology, or philosophical anthropology. Suggests that the most pressing challenge for scholars of dialogic communication is to explore views of language developed in the works of Heidegger, Gadamer, and…

Illinois manufacturing firms were surveyed concerning communication training for first-line managers. Responses indicate that formal training programs exist in less than one-third of the installations; but when such training is provided it frequently includes communication concepts and skills which are practical in orientation and which are based…

Investigates how social expectations affect development of social functions of young children's speech, and concludes that children's expectations of appropriate verbal behavior are affected by differences in situations, age and sex. (MH)

Discusses the development of a self-report measure of oral communication within an organizational environment and investigates whether or not oral communication apprehension in employment is related to general communication apprehension. (MH)

Reports research designed to assess changes speakers are making in their language patterns and how speakers begin and evaluate these changes. (MH)