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Verbal Behavior
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<p><i>Verbal Behavior</i> is a 1957 book by <a href="/facts/Psychologist/J4l4QdX2">psychologist</a> <a href="/facts/B._F._Skinner/cexUumu1">B. F. Skinner</a>, in which he describes what he calls verbal behavior, or what was traditionally called <a href="/facts/Linguistics/oQuamvf2">linguistics</a>. Skinner's work describes the controlling elements of verbal behavior with terminology invented for the analysis - <i>echoics, mands, tacts, autoclitics</i> and others - as well as carefully defined uses of ordinary terms such as <i>audience</i>. </p>