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COMM 1000 Survey of Communication Studies: Communicating with Words – Verbal Communication

Communications 1000 OER site

Resources: Unit 2

Journey of Sound to the Brain
Video from National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders

From Grunting to Gabbing: Why Humans Can Talk

Hiroshi Mikitani “Japan’s New Business Language – English,” The Straits Times, Apr. 25, 2016

Speaking Black Dialect in Courtrooms Can Have Striking Consequences
New York Times article

National Science Foundation Special Report: Language and Linguistics

fMRI of Adele’s “Hello”

Air Traffic Control - Saturday Night Live

Deaf Artist Explores Social Dimensions of Sound

Listeners get an idea of the personality of the speaker through his voice

Reading: Unit 2

Ch. 2: Survey of Communication Study
Verbal Communication
Verbal Communication
Ch. 3 of A Primer on Communication Studies