Presents the international flag and pennant code and suggests a variety of classroom uses of this means of communication. (CP)

After discussing the defensive response in interpersonal communications in organizations, the article presents eight communication techniques for improving organizational communication skills and thereby creating a more supportive organizational climate. (MF)

In the debate over continuities versus discontinuities in the emergence of language, sign language is not taken to be the antithesis, but is presented as the antecedent of spoken languages. (Author/HP)

Proposes that body-focused movement reflects a degree of uncertainty involved in generating information as a function of type of information, psychological differentiation of encoder, and psychological uncertainty of communicative setting. Object-focused movements appear to occur in relation to the type of information and listener availability.…

An elementary school child's perceptions of his teacher's nonverbal behavior is presented to illustrate how those behaviors are interpreted both correctly and incorrectly, and how--regardless of the validity of the interpretation--they affect pupil response. (MJB)

The study reported in this paper developed a categorization of teacher physical motion in relation to verbal actions and analyzed two random samples of such motion as a basis for posing ten hypotheses concerning teacher nonverbal behavior. (MJB)

Aspects of recent behavioral and cognitive theories of depression were evaluated. Social-skill concepts were conceived as involving two component processes, termed "receptive" and "expressive" communication, and the ability of depressed subjects to engage in these behaviors was studied within a nonverbal communication paradigm. (Editor)

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)

This paper describes the gestural behavior of four tribal groups, Kipsigis, Luo, Gusii, and Samburu, observed and elicted in the course of two and one-half years of field work in Western Kenya in 1970-72. The gestures are grouped into four categories: (1) initiators and finalizers of interaction; (2) imperatives; (3) responses; (4) qualifiers.…

Examines the extent to which an infant's social initiative resists or is modified by three variations in the behavior of adult responsiveness: repeated responses, varied responses, and eye aversion. (HOD)

Reviews factors affecting nonverbal expectancies and the consequences of violating them, comparing those consequences to other models (discrepancy-arousal, arousal-labeling, arousal-valence, sequential functional) employing similar assumptions and mediating variables. Examines an extension of nonverbal expectancy violations theory to multiple…

Hearing and hearing-impaired children between ages 4.5 to 15.5 years in England and Belgium were invited to abstract the concept of emotion from photographs and line drawings of facial expressions and body postures. A further experiment isloated the element of context in the task of decoding expression of emotion, resulting in comparatively…

Argues that perceived understanding underlies two important dimensions of organizational effectiveness: consideration and initiation of structure. Describes the Perceived Understanding Instrument and explains how it can be used to identify specific verbal and nonverbal communication behaviors that influence organizational effectiveness. (JD)