Describes a study of 64 students (grades three through college) which investigated the influence of gender labels on individuals' evaluational sex typing of occupations. Reports that respondents based their conception of gender appropriateness on the perceived gender composition of given social positions. Suggests that the relation of the concept…

Examines how reference points for the categorical interpretation of high and low (adjectives) were defined by three- to five-year-old children and adults. Shows categorical interpretations of relative terms to be complex dependent. (HOD)

No language is as varied in history as American English and no language is as rich in word choices. Additions to our language from other cultures are discussed. Four categories of activities involving words are presented. (MT)

Provides insight into the emotional and behavioral reactions of telephone counselors to sexual and sexually abusive callers. Discusses implications for trainers. (Author/ABB)

Concludes that readers recall syntactic subjects very poorly. Suggests that to understand more precisely how readers represent such subjects in memory, new and rich models of language and of possible domains in text will be needed. (FL)

Describes how Bakhtin's insights can heighten the reader's ability to experience verbal and written expression in a rich and complex way, thus serving as an anecdote to a simplified, exclusive concern with purely formal aspects of writing instruction. (EL)

Discusses the systematic relationship between the language patterns of a text and the context of situation that enables a reader to predict from one to the other. (FL)

Surveyed business communication educators and found widespread confusion about the existence and nature of Plain English laws. Concludes that legally compelling business to use plain language in consumer documents may be futile. (PD)

Discusses the origins of the language across the curriculum movement and its current status in various countries. Includes a bibliography intended to help shift focus from writing across the curriculum to language across the curriculum. (HTH)

Four practicing teachers discuss the effect of advertising language and how it affects the teaching of correct usage. (EL)

States that there is a strong cognitive basis to the appreciation of verbal music (the sound sequences of literary works) and that by using the framework explained, students will open themselves to verbal music and its expressive qualities and intensify their awareness of the work's content. (DF)

Argues that choral reading of poetry can help children develop fluency in reading and offers some techniques and some poems for use in choral reading. (FL)

Examines the use of key words in two poems. (DF)

Argues that the social sciences and humanities bring different attitudes and methods to the problem of meaning and that both views are flawed. Concludes that a realignment of literary studies under the aegis of rhetoric is necessary. (FL)

Uses both the findings of formal research studies and the observations of sensitive teachers to illustrate the power of language for helping children gain control over, and put their mark upon, their surroundings. (HTH)