ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

DEAN C. BARNLAND, P h . D . Professor, San Francisco State College. Authority on communication

theory, group communication and interpersonal communication. Formerly on faculty of North-
western University. Numerous publications in the area of communication and group dynamics.
Co-author of The Dynamics of Discussion. Author of Interpersonal Communication: Survey and
Studies.

GREGORY BATESON, M.A. Oceanic Institute, Hawaii. Leading ethnologist, anthropologist,

and authority on communication. Has done anthropological field work in New Guinea and
Bali. Co-author of Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry, and Balinese Character,
A Photographic Analysis. Author of Naven; and numerous articles for the scholarly journals.

RAY L. BIRDWHISTELL, Ph.D. Visiting Professor, Annehberg School of Communications,

University of Pennsylvania and senior Research Scientist, Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute.
Author of Introduction to Kinesics, Kinestcs and Context and co-author of The Natural History of an
Interview. Author of numerous articles in the scholarly journals.

O. R. BONTRAGER, Ph.D. Professor of Education, Long Beach State College, California. Author
of many scholarly articles. Chief lecturer for many years for Institute of general semantics summer
workshops.

HELES CONTRERAS, P h . D .Associate Professor of Linguistics and Romance Language, University

of Washington. Authority in linguistic theory and Spanish syntax. Co-author of A Phonological
Grammar of Spanish. Author of Sobre Gramática Transformational. Cuadernos del Instituto
Lingüístico Latinoamericano, Cuaderno No. 7, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1966.

RUPERT L . CORTRIGHT, P h . D . Professor of Speech, Wayne State University. Past President of

Speech Association of America. Co-author of Creative Discussion and The New Training for Effective
Speech. Author of many articles in the area of discussion and public speaking.

DAVID ELKIND, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Director, Graduate Training in Developmental
Psychology, Universtiy of Rochester, New York. Formerly Associate Professor and Director of the
Child Study Center, University of Denver. Recently completed a year of study in Switzerland with
Jean Piaget. Author of numerous articles in the field of child development.

SETH A. FESSENDEN, Ph.D. Professor and former Head of the Department of Speech and Drama,
California State College at Fullerton. Co-author of The Teacher Speaks; Basic Experiences; How to
Read the Bible Aloud; Speech for the Creative Teacher; Speech for Today; Bonney — Fessenden
Sociograph; Understanding and Being Understood. Author of Design for Listening and Speech and
the Teacher.