Verbal Behavior

Verbal Behavior
Author	B. F. Skinner
Language	English
Subject	Human Language, Communication, Speech, Linguistics
Publisher	Copley Publishing Group
Publication date	1957, 1992
Publication place	United States
Pages	478
ISBN	1-58390-021-7 (case), ISBN 0-87411-591-4 (pbk.)
OCLC	251221179

Verbal Behavior is a 1957 book by psychologist B. F. Skinner, in which he describes what he calls verbal behavior, or what was traditionally called linguistics.^[1]^[2] Skinner's work describes the controlling elements of verbal behavior with terminology invented for the analysis - echoics, mands, tacts, autoclitics and others - as well as carefully defined uses of ordinary terms such as audience.

^ Chiesa, Mecca (2004). Radical Behaviorism: The philosophy and the science. Sarasota, Florida: Authors Cooperative. ISBN 978-0-9623311-4-5.
^ Skinner, Burrhus Frederick (1957). "Chapter 1: A Functional Analysis of Verbal Behavior". Verbal Behavior. Acton, MA: Copley Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-58390-021-5.

[Chiesa_2004-1] Chiesa, Mecca (2004). Radical Behaviorism: The philosophy and the science. Sarasota, Florida: Authors Cooperative. ISBN 978-0-9623311-4-5.

[2] Skinner, Burrhus Frederick (1957). "Chapter 1: A Functional Analysis of Verbal Behavior". Verbal Behavior. Acton, MA: Copley Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-58390-021-5.

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