Nancy Bonvillain's _Language, Culture, and Communication_ (5th ed.) has good overview material on conversation
analysis, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and ethnography of communication -- all of which are relevant to this kind
of thing. It would make a good sourcebook for the teacher, although I think high-school students would find it
off-putting without a good bit of scaffolding. I may be underestimating highschoolers, though.

For a biology course, I think the ethnography of communication material would fit quite nicely with anything
on ethology they may have had -- keeping track of who "emits signals" at whom, where, and under what 
conditions is the kind of thing that's relevant across domains.

--- Bill Spruiell

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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on behalf of Dick Veit
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Subject: sources re conversational behavior
 
I received the following request from a high school teacher. Can anyone
supply information she and her class would find useful?

Hello, Professor Veit.

I am teaching a unit on behavior in an IB Biology course. My students want
to analyze and categorize topics of human conversation. Such as: discussion
of subjective or objective ideas, discussion of others, relating stories to
one's own experiences, etc.

We are having difficulty finding literature sources. I am wondering if you
know of any literature sources on this topic.

Thanks for your time and consideration. Any help you could give would be
greatly appreciated.

Stacey Skinner, Biology Teacher
St. Paul Central High School
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Dick

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