Communications and the flow of messages and imagery within and between nations--especially between developed and dominated states--have assumed a special significance in the years since the second World War. During this period, although more than 90 countries have achieved political independence, at least two-thirds of the world's nations have…

The purpose of this article is to bring together the work of Jurgen Ruesch, Gregory Bateson, Paul Watzlawick, and Jay Haley in order to reveal their combined contribution to a systemic understanding of communicative behavior. Emphasis is upon the interactional and circular pattern of human communication, rather than on the linear, or cause/effect,…

Male subjects holding extreme positions on an aggressive-submissive continuum were trichotomized into involvement levels and received an aggressive communication and a submissive communication in one of two orders. The 144 subjects estimated each communicator's position, judged each communicator on Semantic Differential scales, and then…

Examines recent research on defendent's attractiveness, note-taking, language, and eyewitness testimony and investigates the relationship of these variables to the effectiveness and fairness of traditional courtroom proceedings. (MH)

Investigated were the effects on attendance of four types of pre-program advertising: no advertising, personal invitation, signs, and innovation. All three advertising treatments increased program attendance over no advertising. Each advertising technique has advantages and disadvantages. Signs are impersonal, but effective. Personal invitation is…

Key communicators--community members who come in contact with many people and who are informal information sources--can be used by the schools as sources of feedback from the community and as information disseminators. (DS)

Good communications within the United States Dependents Schools, European Area (USDESEA), are difficult to maintain, since USDESEA covers such a huge geographic area. To strengthen the relationship with Americans served by USDESEA, its director instigated a community involvement program designed to increase parental participation in the school…

The article describes an assessment and instructional strategy for teaching severely handicapped individuals manual communication skills. (DLS)

Recent research within the framework of existential sociolinguistics is reviewed, and its implications for the interpretative processes of reading are discussed. It is argued that comprehension through language is based largely on the role that the assumptions of the speaker and the social expectations of the hearer play in symbolic interaction.…

With the aid of an innovative electronic device, the Tufts Interactive Communicator (TIC), a severely handicapped, cerebral palsied 16-year-old boy has been able to enter a regular sixth-grade classroom. (PHR)

The article lists 20 signs of depression in children which teachers can recognize, along with suggestions on how to cope with the depression. (PHR)

The social processes which limit the use of direct perceptual experience and the way in which they affect communication between two individuals who seek to resolve problems together are explained. A model designed to bring direct experience into balance with social structures as a perceptual resource for partners in the problem solving process is…

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)

Discussed are the types, content, physical layout, and use of communication boards, which assist physically handicapped children who cannot communicate orally. (DLS)