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Mika, Carl Te Hira; Tiakiwai, Sarah-Jane – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2017
In the face of land confiscations and other forms of imperialism characteristic of the 19th century in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the second Maori King Tawhiao devised a number of sayings that seem at first glance to be entirely mythical. Highly metaphorical and poetic, they appear to refer, as Bakhtin would have it in his discussion of the epic, to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Figurative Language
Behrens, Susan J. – Multilingual Matters, 2014
It is clear that a proper understanding of what academic English is and how to use it is crucial for success in college, and yet students face multiple obstacles in acquiring this new "code", not least that their professors often cannot agree amongst themselves on a definition and a set of rules. "Understanding Language Use in the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Classroom Communication, Academic Discourse, Language Research
Singh, Michael – Education Sciences, 2017
This paper reports on the ground-breaking research in the study of languages in doctoral education. It argues for democratizing the production and dissemination of original contributions to knowledge through activating and mobilizing multilingual Higher Degree Researchers' (HDRs) capabilities for theorizing through them using their full linguistic…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Doctoral Programs, Language Research, Higher Education

Gagne, Christina L.; Murphy, Gregory L. – Discourse Processes, 1996
Investigates the comprehension of combined concepts (such as "peeled apple") in discourse through four experiments by having people verify features that were true of the phrase. Discusses experiments and results. Argues against a compositional model of conceptual combination in which both the modifier and head noun are accessed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Research, Language Usage, Nouns

Cooper, Anne Messerly – 1985
In an attempt to determine whether the generic "man" has a strong association with maleness, 307 college students (122 males and 185 females) were polled to assess their attitudes about whether people "outgrow" the limited definition of man or whether the generic still retains an exclusionary, "mostly males" coloring. In order to prevent the…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Research

Geisler, Cheryl – Technical Communication, 1993
Describe the specifically literary nature of engineering design and discusses preliminary evidence concerning how students of design engineering manage their literacy practice. (SR)
Descriptors: Design, Engineering, Higher Education, Language Research

Colston, Herbert L. – Discourse Processes, 1997
Reports results of four experiments in which undergraduate students rated the degree of condemnation in critical remarks. Shows that ironic criticism in many cases is used to enhance rather than to dilute condemnation. Notes significant implications for both pragmatic and processing theories of verbal irony. (SR)
Descriptors: Criticism, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Irony

Mulac, Anthony; Bradac, James J.; Gibbons, Pamela – Human Communication Research, 2001
Presents three studies that provide a test of gender-as-culture, or "two cultures," hypothesis proposed by Maltz and Borker (1982) to explain male/female differences in language use. Finds that gender preferences for language use among undergraduate students function in ways that are consistent with stylistic preferences that distinguish national…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intercultural Communication, Language Research, Language Usage

Gershuny, H. Lee – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1974
Presents research findings on sexist uses of language in dictionaries. (RB)
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Higher Education, Language Research, Language Usage
Adamsky, Cathryn – 1976
The pervasiveness of sexism in our society is reflected in language structure and usage. In pronominal usage, masculine singular forms are assumed to include the feminine, although, when referring to female sex-role-typed occupations, "she" is used. In this research, the effect of the instructor's use of "she," as the generic singular, on student…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Research, Language Usage, Pronouns

Porozinskaya, Galina – Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, 1994
Discusses Russian translatology after 1950. Introduces in chronological order some of the most important Russian works and discusses their main points. Deals with Russian approaches to key problems in translation such as equivalence, pragmatic relations, audience orientation, and problems of cultural transfer. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intercultural Communication, Language Patterns, Language Research

Schober, Michael F. – Discourse Processes, 1995
Explores whether speakers choose spatial perspectives to minimize effort. Discusses an experiment in which speakers describe locations on a display for addressees who shared their vantage point or had different views. Finds that same-viewpoint speakers spoke differently from speakers with offset views, who did not differ from each other reliably,…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication, Language Research

Conville, Richard L. – Journal of Psychology, 1975
Confirms that listeners rely on communicators' levels of linguistic nonimmediacy (the degree of verbal indirectness with which communicators refer to themselves) for impression formation. (RB)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Higher Education, Language Research, Language Usage

Herzbrun, Philip – College English, 1978
Cites over 75 examples of errors in usage which were made by newswriters for the "Washington Post," suggesting that they indicate the social dimensions of language decay. (DD)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Higher Education, Language Research, Language Usage

Newman, Jean E. – Discourse Processes, 1985
Describes three experiments that explored the informational roles of emphasis and word order in active sentences. The results, when considered together, strongly implicate recentness, but not emphasis, as an important means of linking temporally contiguous sentences. (HTH)
Descriptors: Coherence, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Processing