Presents a linguistic and sociolinguistic analysis of the use of the words "socialism" and "socialist" in Jean Jaures' discourse, with a view to answering the following questions: (1) what is the process of semantic change, from a philosophical term to a political one; and (2) what is the nature of "political…

To use the words "multicultural education" is to diminish and make narrow an important educational concept. Education in a pluralistic society is necessarily multicultural. (JD)

Contains a quiz on words and their meanings which introduces students to a lecture on semantic theory. (RL)

Discusses three perspectives (linguistic, philosophical, and psychological) which emphasize the points of agreement rather than disagreement among different versions of a conceptually based theory of word meaning acquisition. (JMB)

Proposes a linguistic model based on the theory that linguistics is the science of translation, and shows that universal problems of translation are in reality linguistic problems. (AM)

Examines a number of specimen terms of interest to librarians in various languages with a view to establishing the degree of ambiguity inherent in them and the extent to which the connotation of apparent equivalents in other languages matches. (Author)

Examines the conflict between one group of educators which is calling for a more complete, precise, expanded vocabulary and another group, which is calling for fewer terms and simpler meanings in the development of evaluation terminology. (CMV)

Discusses the applicability of "fuzzy sets" to explicating the notion of "vagueness." (Author/HP)

Many errors in ESL students' writing are caused by misleading cognates, words in the two languages which look alike, yet do not mean the same thing. (DD)

Describes an approach to teaching freshman composition which begins with the study of the power of words. (DD)

Differences between Spanish "ir" and "irse" are explained. Use of these verbs is determined by the adverb used with them: an adverb of place will govern use of "ir," while an adverb of time will govern use of "irse.""Ir" also involves a return trip, while "irse" communicates only a going away. (CHK)

A semantic differential scale, designed to assess users' attitudes toward batch mode retrieval of the ERIC data base, grouped ten concepts and matched them with 16 adjective pairs. Although response was somewhat low, concepts and adjective pairs were clustered. (Author/KP)

Examines the semantic articulations of the notions of "consensus" and "conflict" within the framework of political power. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/AM)

This study employs a lexical-decision task to investigate second- and fourth-grade children's use of semantic context in word recognition. Results showed that younger and poorer readers benefit at least as much from semantic context in word recognition as do older and better readers. (Author/JMB)

Considers the conventions of quotation marks--or "perverted commas"--and identifies seven uses, including shudder quotes (slang or inappropriate words) and scare quotes (used for attention or emphasis). Notes that quotation marks influence meaning and that finding a personal voice entails using language without quotes. (MM)