Suggests methods of curriculum development in the speech communication discipline that would offer students opportunities to acquire information and master skills that will enhance academic success and career development. Available from: ACA Bulletin, Robert Hall, Editor, Speech Communication Association, 5205 Leesburg Pike, Suite 1001, Falls…

Examines speech communication course development at the community college level and offers suggestions for dealing with problems of transferring course work to the four-year college and serving the career student enrolled in a two-year program. Available from: ACA Bulletin, Robert Hall, Editor, Speech Communication Association, 5205 Leesburg Pike,…

Describes the rationale and method of research in natural settings explaining the concept of systematic observation and discusses the uses of this type of research in the classroom. (MH)

Provides an empirical basis for the proposition that predisposition to communicate is dependent upon the level of ego-involvement, the reception of either an anxiety- or a nonanxiety-arousing discrepant message, and the opportunity to affiliate. (MH)

Reveals that an individual's information processing is affected by number of objects and differences in perceptual sets. (KS)

Provides a rationale for teaching nonverbal communication theory within the context of the basic business communication course. (KS)

A sociolinguistic study of the success of communication styles and utterance structures used by 40 retarded children when teaching a simple board game to a listener of similar or dissimilar age and ability to themselves was conducted to see whether retarded children modify their communications as a function of listener characteristics. (BB)

The glottogonic model of language evolution is presented and reviewed as the possible course, after a discussion of previous theories on the origin of language. (CFM)

This study was undertaken to ascertain which types of listener feedback lead to effective communication by observing how 4-year-olds adapt their speech to a peer listener during free play. (JMB)

Recognizes that ghostwriting has long been a subject of controversy within the speech communication field, especially the question of the "ethics" of ghostwriting. Examines ghostwriting as source, process, and relationship, and suggests five specific ways in which the study of ghostwritten texts can enrich rhetorical studies. (NKA)

Investigated the effects of subject sex and target sex on reported conflict management styles. Found males more likely than females to use a competing style, while females were more likely than males to use a compromising style. Found all subjects more likely to use an accommodating style with female targets. (SKC)

Thirty-one cognitively normal college students unfamiliar with Blissymbolics were able to make reliable ratings of the perceived complexity of 91 Blissymbols. Based on these ratings, a correlational analysis indicated that the semantic variable "semantic elements" and the physical variable "number of strokes" were the best…

The speech behavior of 14 depressed and 18 nondepressed mothers during conversations with their 3-year-old children was examined using the Automatic Vocal Transaction Analyzer. Mother-child dyads were observed in three settings for five minutes each: while mother was preparing lunch, during lunch, and while waiting for a doctor. (Author/BN)

Analyses of duration data measured from connected-speech signals for three "slow" and three "fast" adult talkers produced mean values and standard deviations that demonstrated strong functional relationships. Slow speakers were more variable than fast speakers; thus, duration distributions may not indicate the level of…