Discusses the use of euphemisms, self-aggrandizing expressions, semi-pseudo-technical jargon, idioms, etc., in everyday usage of English. (RB)

Analyzes the interaction of commitment to a decision with three aspects of a subsequent message--familiarity, utility, and supportiveness. The data suggested thatcommitted subjects preferred supportive, novel information. Tables and bibliography. (RW)

Recommends a return to the solo interpretive reading performance as a base for teaching oral interpretation principles and explains how to plan and organize such a performance. (SW)

Describes an activity in which students selected a character from a play or novel and acted that role before the class. (SW)

Recommends that the speech communication profession provide models of speech communication across social-class boundaries that reflect with equal care the attitudes of both communicators." (Author/SW)

Hypothesizes that proverbs and poems among nonliterate peoples vary inversely with the user's degree of Westernization. Suggests that the oral tradition in Somalia, East Africa serves different functions for the different social groups such as nomads, semi-nomads, and students. (MB)