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Schwertz, Courtney – 1972
This study attempted to clarify the concept "program" by systematically examining the use of the term "program." The term was examined as it is used in ordinary language and in adult education literature. After analysis of the term within these two contexts, a typology was developed from the uses identified. The typology was then utilized as an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Classification, Componential Analysis

Croft, Kenneth – English Record, 1971
Discusses both the interference from language categories in language learning and the methodology of linguistic anthropologists in discovering and describing language categories which lack the formal characteristics of grammatical categories; this amounts to analysis of semantic components. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Classification, Componential Analysis, Language Instruction, Language Patterns
Berlin, Brent – 1969
Criticism has been directed at a growing body of literature broadly referred to as ethnoscience, ethnosemantics, folk science, ethnographic semantics, and cognitive anthropology. Criticisms concern methodological and analytic aspects of ethnoscientific procedure, and the directions of ethnosemantic research from a theoretical point of view. The…
Descriptors: African Languages, Anthropology, Classification, Color