The communications explosion and the study of speech∗

Delivered at the annual convention of the Central States Speech Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 5, 1963.

Abstract

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.

Notes

Delivered at the annual convention of the Central States Speech Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 5, 1963.