A list, with examples, of ways that people can commit verbal violence during ordinary conversations.

Ideas, vocabulary, and daily comeback for defending against verbal violence. Also connects verbal attacks with underlying fallacies.

Promotes the study, development, and teaching of listening and the practice of effective listening skills and techniques.

Provides interlinked definitions, theories, and resources covering cultural context, relational development, self-concept, verbal and nonverbal messages, and listening and perception.

Developed from the research of anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, semioticians and others who have studied human communication from a scientific point of view.

Overview of "the gentle art of verbal self-defense," as defined by Suzette Haden Elgin, from organization that also sells her tapes and books. Includes a section for children.