Discusses the role of language and dialog in effecting change and illustrates the power of language in effecting change. Uses the examples of student profiles to define and activate learning, and work portfolios to define career/life choices. (JOW)

Comments on studies that indicate delayed onset of canonical babbling may predict future language impairments. It cautions against the too-early assumption of the use of early perceptual and production capacities as clinical markers and warns that using lack of canonical babbling as a early index of language delay could lead to a high rate of…

Focuses on one particular psychological dimension, extraversion-introversion. The relatively small number of linguistic studies in which extraversion is focused on as an independent variable suggests that applied linguists believe it unrelated to speech production or language learning. Argues that this suspicion is based on a misunderstanding…

Presents the linguistic characteristics of a boy (AZ) with specific language impairment. AZ illustrates the linguistic characteristics of grammatical SLI. Morphosyntactic investigations reveal that all inflectional forms are present but are not used consistently. (Author/VWL)

Reports results from a national survey, investigating the following: who evaluates journalism and mass communication teaching and how often it is evaluated, what is evaluated, definitions of effective teaching, why teaching is evaluated, and the benefits and shortcomings of evaluation. Concludes assessment of journalism and mass communication…

Contributes to rhetorical scholarship by analyzing the life and work of the intellectual, quiet, enigmatic civil rights leader Robert Parris Moses. Analyzes Moses's substantive message, personal persona, and second persona as synergistic and reciprocal elements of reconstitutive identification by understanding his rhetorical goals and the…

This cross-sectional study examined communicative function in children (ages 12-54 months either with profound hearing loss but learning spoken English for communication) or with normal hearing. Data suggested somewhat different patterns of communication function development between the groups. Also, the use of language for social purposes was…

One of a series of letters to parents of children with developmental apraxia of speech (DAS), this letter discusses the treatment of DAS including linguistic approaches, motor-programming approaches, a combination of linguistic and motor-programming approaches, and treatment approaches that include specific sensory and gestural cueing techniques.…

Investigated the influence of morphologically complex and simple words on the production of morphologically complex and simple picture names in five picture-word interference studies. Two variants of picture-word interference were employed to separate morphological from semantic and phonological effects. (Author/VWL)

Reviews stereotypes of Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) in television news. Investigates the significance to image-making of stereotypes, visual deconstruction and reconstruction, close-up shots and spectator positioning, as well as news recycling and repetition. Argues that such strategies reify a mediated collective memory of HRC which is…

Contributes to scholarship advancing the understanding of human communication. Examines how journalists construct their authority to tell moralizing stories. Shows how journalists construct a discursive strategy asserting their right to serve as moral agents on two levels: as "institutional we," determining the "facts," and as…

Studies characteristics of hybrid speech/theater departments that describe themselves as highly cooperative and collegial. Presents perceived advantages and disadvantages of having a combined speech/theater department and results of questions pertaining to administrative difficulties in combined departments. Discusses alternative theories about…

Investigated effects of stuttering on gesture for adults and children. Found through transcription of videotaped narratives that during bouts of stuttering, the coexpressed gesture always waits for fluent speech to resume. Also found that the lower ratio of spoken words to coexpressed gestures for children may be due to lower attentional/cognitive…

Calls for a critical evaluation of professional reliance on "talk" in the context of school-based consultation to induce behavior change. Reviews assumptions about talk, notes benefits to practitioners and researchers, outlines requirements for research on talk, and provides guidelines for practice. (EMK)

Discusses briefly the standards movement and content standards for oral communication. Describes "New Standards" as one model for incorporating the domain of oral communication into an influential, nationally-based program for performance assessment. Discusses five principles regarding speaking/listening/viewing that are incorporated…