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Dunworth, Katie; Grimshaw, Trevor; Iwaniec, Janina; McKinley, Jim – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
Within the currently diverse UK higher education environment, one important aspect of learning is the development of intercultural competence. The study that informs this paper investigated the ways intercultural competence was perceived as being enhanced or inhibited through current language and educational practices at a university that…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Gup, Ted – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Depending on how one does the math, there are between a quarter-million and a million words in the English language. Of all these words, the author holds in contempt only one. That word is "like"--not the tepid expression of mild appreciation but the parasitic form that now bleeds the mother tongue, marks the user as a dunce, and, were it truly…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Critical Thinking, Ambiguity (Semantics), Semantics
Theodore, Mary Felicia – 1976
This volume defines, explains, and traces the origins of figures of speech and style in poetry. Using examples from the works of Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Byron, Emerson, and countless other poets--well known or obscure, such forms as similies, analogies, prosopopeia, metonomy, and many others are described. (Author/KS)
Descriptors: Definitions, Etymology, Figurative Language, Higher Education
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Nilsen, Don L. F. – College Composition and Communication, 1976
Descriptors: Cliches, College Freshmen, Figurative Language, Higher Education
Richardson, Elaine – 1994
Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's "Dialogic Imagination" and Henry Louis Gates'"Signifying Monkey," an analysis of an African American student's essay reveals codes that are distinct to African Americans. Bakhtin's theory alerts scholars to the extent to which language is a social phenomenon. Ambiguous and heteroglossic, it reflects…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Black History, Black Literature
Kingwell, Gail – 1980
A stylistics-based approach to teaching poetry in the English as a foreign language classroom is examined. Since students may not have the linguistic skills to appreciate a poem, an analytical framework is proposed that includes the elements of repetition, confusion, and surprise. Reference is made to two poems, "In a Season of Unemployment"…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, English (Second Language), Figurative Language, Higher Education
Logan, Carolyn – 1979
The reading habits by which students formulate a critical analysis of a literary work should focus attention on the choices that a writer makes when putting words on paper. These choices include sound, diction, language, imagery, organization, metaphors, sentence structure, transitions, allusions, and patterns. Discussing these choices does not…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Expressive Language, Figurative Language, Higher Education
Silberstein, Lisa R.; And Others – 1980
A multiple choice Metaphor Preferences Test was administered to 138 preschool through college subjects to determine the role of a metaphor's ground in determining a metaphor's appeal, and to document the evolution of preferences for different types of grounds. Ground is the common property that links the two terms of a metaphor (topic and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Association (Psychology), Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education
McKenzie, Hope Bussey – 1986
Intended for college teachers and students of Anglo-Saxon literature, this paper provides an overview of the poetic devices available to poets of the fourteenth century. The paper examines how the "Pearl" poet made use of numerical symbolism and the principles of formal logic as structural devices, giving examples of these devices from…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Figurative Language, Folk Culture, Higher Education