This study examines the basic question about the position of dicursivity with respect to language, arising from the axiomatic statements concerning linguistic sign, form and meaning as definition components of the structural conception of language. The book is divided into two sections: I. Axiomatics of Structural Linguistics, and II. Linguistics…

One of a series on Anthropology and Education by the Columbia Teachers College Press, this is a group of papers with a common focus upon language behavior in the classroom. The emphasis of the authors is not on the structure of language, but on how language is used to communicate between teachers and students. The book is divided into three parts:…

The individual components of language -- on the semantic, syntactic, and phonological levels -- mean little or nothing as individual constructs. Language research must proceed according to a concept of linguistic structure which reflects the correlation of elements within and between levels of structure. (VM)

This final report discusses the principal goals and achievements of the journal project "Language and Language Behavior Abstracts" during 1971. The objectives during this grant period were increasing income, improving the scholarly qualities of the journal, reducing operating costs where possible, and improving accessibility to scholars. Problems…

REPORT NUMBER 2 OF THE CLEARINGHOUSE FOR SOCIAL DIALECT STUDIES (CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH) GIVES BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS OF 26 CURRENT, PROJECTED, OR RECENTLY COMPLETED SOCIAL DIALECT STUDIES AT UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING IN THE UNITED STATES. THE EMPHASIS IS ON THE SPEECH OF…

Three experiments investigated the hypothesis that, when interpreted in context, general terms are typically encoded on the basis of an instantiation. The results indicated that a particular term naming the expected instantiation of a general term was a better cue for the recall of a sentence than the general term itself, even though the general…

It seems highly likely that many of the features of Black American English can be traced back to the Afro-Portuguese Creole dialects that sprang up in the fifteenth century in Portuguese slave camps along the West African coast, particularly in the Gulf of Guinea area, the area of greatest concentration of activity during the slave trade. This…

High school juniors and seniors participated in three studies of the effects of a thematic organizer on passage comprehension. Comprehension was measured using a cloze procedure in the first study and using a passage-reproduction task in the second and third studies. A thematic organizer (material presented to provide a context for the passage)…

The chapters in this volume report new research evidence, review new concepts, and acquaint classroom teachers at the elementary level with the ideas of those most active in the field of linguistics. Discussion, which focuses on the relationships between linguistics and language arts, reading, spelling instruction, and the teaching of grammar and…

This article discusses the problem of assigning gender to Spanish calques and loan words borrowed from English. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

This article discusses the notion of the proposition in the philosophy of language. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Data is presented in support of the thesis that the sounds of Bangkok Thai can only be accurately described with a variation model. Consonant clusters were chosen to support this contention. It is asserted that Standard Thai cannot be equated with the actual speech of any specific group. (Author/RM)

This article discusses the various types of expression of emphasis used for nominals in a variety of languages: raising or alteration of the voice, word order, use of a morpheme for an emphatic function, and nominalization of a part of the sentence not being emphasized. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Most students seem not to have learned the transformational grammar their teachers said had been taught.

Three experiments are reported regarding reaction time. Letter comparison time was found to increase when other irrelevant letters were present, regardless of whether or not the letters made up a word or a word-like configuration. Word comparison time was found to increase when distractors were similar to targets. (Author/RM)