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Madison Public Schools, WI. – 1972
Based on the belief that the most appropriate focus of a language arts curriculum is the process and content of communication, these several unipacs (instructional packets) explore some essential elements of communication which should be incorporated into a curricular theory: (1) abstraction , which is the assertion that words may be classified as…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Curriculum Design, Diachronic Linguistics
Faerch, Claus; Kasper, Gabriele – 1982
The need for an analytical approach to the study of phatic, metalingual, and metacommunicative functions in asymmetrical communicative situations (between native speakers and language learners) is discussed. The study presents theoretical frameworks for gambits and repairs, the linguistic phenomena that primarily serve those functions, and…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis