Dialogues of sets of socially similar twins are studied. The opinion that twins have slower syntactic development than non-twins is seriously questioned. Dialogues with twins saying the same utterance together, correcting each other, quarreling, playing verbal games, etc. are analyzed in their deep structure. (SCC)

Reviewed are the 17 studies most widely quoted in support of the value of total communication and as evidence of the ineffectiveness of the oral approach for use with deaf students. (Author)

Through discussion and illustrative events, an evolving segment of communication is described during the course of transition of one child's total communication system from the sensorimotor or gestural level at 12 months into the level of use of the adult words "more" and "mine," and associated utterances, at 24 months. (Author/RM)

Defines novice, craftsman, and expert levels of communications competence and suggests that current instructional methods are inadequate for producing expert level competencies. See CS 703 653 for availability. (MH)

Playing the roles of various workers provides a springboard for developing oral communication skills and relating to others in work situations. (AG)

Educators insure that black students will never learn to write as well as they can by convincing them of the myth that, as a people, the strength of blacks lies in oral communication. (EH)

Presents among other things the didactic-methodological procedure in Teaching Units 3 and 4, Grade 10; the development of (predominantly monologue) speaking proficiency and proper translation into the foreign language, with special attention to measures to be taken immediately before and after watching the television program. (Text is in German.)…

Contains remarks on the advantages and limitations of work with filmstrips, methodological procedures in the introduction of these, e.g. in vocabulary work, the treatment of grammatical points, and speaking both in monologue and in dialogue. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Discusses two radically opposed theories about written and spoken language. The first states that the written word is the most perfect form of expression. According to the second concept, written language is viewed as the inaccurate translation of spoken language. (Text is in French.) (PMP)

Twenty-three subjects drew deductions from ten different pairs of conversationally conveyed requests, of which the first conveyed a positive request, the second, a negative. Some evidence shows the listener constructs the literal meaning before the conveyed meaning. (CK)

The gulf between scholarly applications and rhetorical praxis in the speech classroom is enormous. It seems clear that the theoretical base will never release its stranglehold on the classical paradigm until the agendas of basic course classrooms do so as well. No new paradigm may realistically hope to contest the established tradition until the…

An illustrative rather than an exhaustive bibliography on approaches to rhetorical criticism, this update of an earlier publication lists more than 150 selections. The bibliography is divided into sections on: (1) discussions of the Burkean approach; (2) applications of the Burkean approach; (3) discussions of the fantasy theme approach; (4)…