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Peer reviewedCarroll, John M. – Discourse Processes, 1980
Reports on a study of how people create names for individuals characterized by role descriptions. Concludes that context scenarios that involved the individual denoted by a role description elicited names less literally based on the actual role description than did less involving scenarios, and that less literal names appeared to directly…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Discourse Analysis, Language Usage
Peer reviewedScholnick, Ellin Kofsky – Discourse Processes, 1987
Assesses three papers in this volume, those by Wellman and Estes, Olson and Torrance, and Hall and Nagy, for their treatment of the following: (1) definition of semantic space, (2) defining children's processes of understanding that space, and (3) describing the contexts in which cognitive language is used. (AEW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedOrtony, Andrew – Discourse Processes, 1987
Critically examines papers by Wellman and Estes, Olson and Torrance, and Hall and Nagy. (AEW)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
