Franklin H. Knower

What do you mean‐communication?

This article examines nine different ways of exploring and understanding the often misunderstood nature and function of the term communication. Methods of exploration and categories for organizing research studies in this area are one of the major thrusts of the paper.

The communications explosion and the study of speech

The characteristics and consequences of the communication explosion are interpreted as a world wide expansion of the uses of speech. Graduate studies in speech are shown also to have increased dramatically within the last ten years. Suggestions are made for possible developments and trends in speech education as ways of better coping with the rapidly developing field of communication in our time.

Chapter 1 Speech Education for All American Youth

T HE theme of this publication is that there is a place in the general education of all American youth for the study of speech. Just what that study is to contain, when and where we should go about it, and how we can introduce it into the curriculums of our schools are questions which have concerned the committee responsible for the collection of materials presented here. We have focused our attention on the curriculum for general education, for, with other educators of our time, we feel that our great-