Our system of teaching language makes most native speakers feel insecure in their own usages. (JH)

An overconcern with the niceties of usage can undercut English teachers' efforts to eliminate public doublespeak. (JH)

Analyzes the evils of political and commercial doublespeak and contends that they can be alleviated by the truth of good literature. (DD)

Aspects of the language in the Watergate tapes are examined. (JH)

Our linguistic environment is so polluted at every level that meaningless, uncritical pseudocommunication is becoming the preferred norm even among the highly educated. (JH)

The task of keeping language alive is a task for all teachers. (JH)

We speak English but do we understand what we say, or is it all a mist that doesn't make any sense at all? (MR)

Reviews work suggesting that imagery and language function in tandem to constitute a sense of being, and that metaphors of sight hold as much formative power as metaphors of word. Describes the limitations of language and the ways in which imagery compensates for that limitation. Discusses narrative of epistemology as a fusion of image and…

The author supports the theory that one of the important relationships between literature and knowledge is the language of literature. (MM)

No one should be allowed to teach English until he has mastered the fundamentals of social and regional dialectology. (JH)

A collection of reports from various workshops at the 1973 NCTE College Section Unconference. (JH)

Discusses arguments for retaining the status quo in academic literacy, including E. D. Hirsch's argument for cultural literacy. Argues for a view of literacy based on a rhetorical understanding of history and knowledge. (JK)

Skill in intelligently analyzing any medium can be applied to any other medium. (JH)