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Child Discourse. Language, Thought, and Culture: Advances in the Study of Cognition.
Ervin-Tripp, Susan, Ed.; Mitchell-Kernan, Claudia, Ed. – 1977
The following essays on children's spoken language are included in this volume: "Play with Language and Speech" by Catherin Garvey, "'You Fruithead': A Sociolinguistic Approach to Children's Dispute Settlement" by Donald Brenneis and Laura Lein, "From Verbal Play to Talk Story: The Role of Routines in Speech Events among…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition
Language in Public Life. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (Washington, D.C., 1979).
Alatis, James E., Ed.; Tucker, G. Richard, Ed. – 1979
The proceedings of the Georgetown Round Table on language and public life are divided into four sections dealing with: (1) language in public life and international affairs, (2) language spread and language policy, (3) language and the professions, and (4) the language of public persuasion. The articles in these sections treat the following…
Descriptors: Advertising, Civil Liberties, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis
Argumentation et Communication (Argumentation and Communication).
Portine, Henri, Ed. – 1979
Four position papers are presented that were given during a study-week dealing with questions related to language as communication, the notion of argumentation in second language teaching methodology, and ways of introducing argumentation phenomena into the language class. The papers, representing four different positions, are the following: (1)…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, French
Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (Washington, D.C., 1981).
Tannen, Deborah, Ed. – 1981
The Georgetown Round Table on discourse analysis dealt with the following aspects of the topic: Emerson's essay on language; oral remembering and narrative structures; persuasive discourse; social construction of topical cohesion; discourse as an interactional achievement; the place of intonation; topic as the unit of analysis in a criminal law…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Folk Culture
54th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (San Antonio, Texas, December 1-4, 2004)
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Maloch, Beth, Ed.; Hoffman, James V., Ed.; Schallert, Diane L., Ed.; Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed.; Worthy, Jo, Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2005
This volume presents the 54th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (NRC). The 2004 NRC conference, set in San Antonio, took place against a political backdrop in which the nature and substance of literacy research has become suspect. Given the current state of politically-driven research agendas, the focus of the 54th annual NRC…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Conferences (Gatherings), Reading Comprehension, Speech Communication