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Hartveldt, R. – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1979
Discusses stylistic variation in communication, the elements involved (participants, contact, message, context, and code), and ways in which to incorporate the knowledge of this process in second language instruction. (AM)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Instruction, Language Styles, Language Variation
Nugent, Harold E.; Burgess, Carol – 1979
This paper focuses on a language variation model that incorporates a number of concepts from linguistic and rhetorical studies. The model views language variation as a product of two correlating causes: one, the user and his or her personal, regional, and social dialect; and the other, the user's use of the language in terms of such discourse…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Role, Language Styles
Hairston, Maxine C., Ed.; Selfe, Cynthia L., Ed. – 1981
Nine selected papers presented at the Texas Writing Research Group's 1981 conference are offered in this collection. The papers discuss (1) sources of linguistic interference among American minorities; (2) contributions of discourse analysis to composition; (3) emerging notions of heuristic (investigative), eristic (controversial), and protreptic…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, History, Language Variation