This cross-sectional survey examined the structure of university students' subjective knowledge of green computing--hypothesized to be a multidimensional construct with three important dimensions--and its association with pro-environmental behavior (PEB). Using a previously validated green computing questionnaire, data were collected from 842…

An essay on the Spanish word "vaina," which originally meant "sheath,""scabbard,""pod" or "husk," but which in several Latin American countries now translates as "nuisance," or "bother." (Text is in Spanish.) (CK)

Formal semantic analysis appears to be capable of handling certain cases where kin terms appear to cover an illogical assortment of relatives, an assortment which constitutes a disjunctive class. Two examples are the kin terms "ngaraija" and "tjilja," used by the Njamal, an Australian tribe. (CFM)

Points out that the Spanish "entonces," grammatically an adverb, is being used more and more as a conversational filler without real function or meaning. (Text is in Spanish.) (CK)

The English language has adopted a large number of foreign words and apparently has a tradition of readily accepting new words of foreign origin. The following points are discussed: simple transliteration, authorized translation, the danger of analogies and foreign words currently not accepted in English. (AMH)

Two experiments, involving 12 adults who stutter and 12 controls, evaluated the effects on speech response latency of picture naming tasks designed to place selective demands on lexicalization. The experiments investigated the effects of one-word versus two-word responses and a word's frequency of occurrence versus its number of syllables.…

Since Berlin and Kay's proposal in 1969 of two universals concerning the meanings of basic color words, three kinds of information have become available to help in understanding the encoding sequence, that is, the temporal order in which the basic color categories are accorded lexical status. McDaniel (1972, 1974, forthcoming) demonstrates that…

An analysis of the task, on the semantic level, facing the translator of a literary text, illustrated by a verse from the Bible. The process of capturing meaning through the study of sources and methods of dealing with ambiguities are discussed. A selected reference list is attached. (AMH)

This paper attempts to develop some relatively well-defined notions that may be of use in descriptive semantics and in some areas of cognitive psychology. These notions are intended as explications of certain terms widely used in these fields such as semantic dimension, semantic feature, semantic space, category, conjunctive category, and sememe.…

On the basis of empirical data this paper concludes that knowledge relating to the use and meaning of American English Kin terms is shared and that multiple semantic models do not exist in the minds of American English speakers. (CFM)

Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (DD)

Discusses the theoretical and practical foundations of grammatical terminology defining the relationship with linguistic terminology and with the general lexicon. Devotes particular attention to the analysis of the semantic and syntactic properties of grammatical terms, to the various types of neologisms, and to the structure of the definitional…