Fourteen papers discuss language behavior in schizophrenia. Provided are an introduction to the phenomena, by H. J. Vetter, and considerations of the following: problems posed by schizophrenic language, by M. Lorenz; the validity of clinical judgments of schizophrenic pathology based on verbal responses to intelligence test items, by N. F. Jones; and symbolic distortion in the vocabulary definitions of schizophrenics, by J. Richman. L. J. Chapman describes confusion of figurative and literal usages of words by schizophrenics and brain damaged patients; T. S. Eliseo discusses figurative and literal misinterpretations of words by process and reactive schizophrenics; and S. A. Mednick considers a learning theory approach to research in schizophrenia. Further papers are on associative inference in the verbal learning performance of schizophrenics and normals, by J. T. Spence and C. V. Lair; language theory and "opposite speech," by A. W. Staats; the use of contextual associates in the analysis of free speech, by J. Laffal; experimental manipulation of continuous speech in schizophrenic patients by K. Salzinger and others; a systematic examination of gibberish in a multilingual schizophrenic patient, by J. P. S. Robertson and S. J. Shamsie; the language of the voices, by F. Schaechter; and poiesis and the language of schizophrenia, by D. V. Forrest. (JD)