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An Awareness of Language.

Margulis, Joel B. – 1975

Historical incidents, photographs of sheet music, cartoons, and advertisements are employed to study language in this textbook. The text, suggestions, and quoted material in the book are to be used not only for the study of language but also as sources for writing. It is recommended that journal entries, more fresh and spontaneous than formal…

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Communication (Thought Transfer), Dialects, Expressive Language

SOME THOUGHTS ON LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE PROCESSES.

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CASSIDY, FREDERIC G. – 1963

THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD "LANGUAGE" CAN BE LIMITED TO MEAN "A VOCAL AND AUDITORY MEANS OF COMMUNICATION, WHICH WORKS BY THE SYMBOLIC PROCESS, WHICH HAS A COMPLEX STRUCTURE, AND WHICH IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING SO LONG AS IT REMAINS IN USE." THERE ARE SIX IMPLICATIONS OF THIS DEFINITION--(1) ALTHOUGH LANGUAGE IS PRIMARILY AUDITORY AND VOCAL, IT CAN…

Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Dialects, English Instruction, Expressive Language