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Grimes, Joseph E. – 1972
This report contains an extensive discussion of an approach to the study of discourse. Initial remarks concern arguments for studying discourse and approaches for discourse study that have been used; the author then discusses the relationship of discourse analysis and generative semantics. Language is considered on two issues: the decisions that a…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Connected Discourse, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis
DeVito, Joseph A. – Quart J Speech, 1969
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Form Classes (Languages), Function Words, Language Research

Faigley, Lester – Rhetoric Review, 1989
Argues that if the study of language is to become important again in the teaching of writing, it will be through an expanded notion of rhetoric that understands language as the site of struggle over socially produced meaning. (RAE)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Intellectual Disciplines, Language Research, Linguistics

O'Donnell, Roy C.; Smith, William L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
Sensitivity to syntactic structure can be increased by direct instruction. (JH)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, English Instruction, Grade 9