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Swerts, Marc; van Wijk, Carel – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Tennis scores represent a natural language domain that offers the unique opportunity to study the effects of discourse constraints on prosody with strict control over syntactic and lexical variation. This study analyzed a set of tennis scores, such as "30-15," from live recordings of several Wimbledon and Davis Cup matches. The objective was to…
Descriptors: Racquet Sports, Natural Language Processing, Scores, Language Usage
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Litz, Robert P. – College Composition and Communication, 1971
Gleason uses a prose form that is a written analog to Davis' new music. This prose form may be called surrealistic writing." An analysis of the prose style follows. (Author/SP)
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Rhythm, Language Usage, Music Appreciation
Bruns, Gerald L. – Coll Engl, 1970
Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) in Denver, Colorado, December 26-30, 1969. (DS)
Descriptors: English, Figurative Language, Formal Criticism, Language Patterns
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Sorhus, Helen B. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1977
Tape-recorded conversations provide a basis for analysis of fixed expressions, cliches, filled pauses and false starts in spontaneous speech. The meaning of these findings for second language learning and instruction is discussed. (CHK)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Patterns
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Rosenwald, Lawrence – College English, 1998
Offers a sustained linguistic analysis of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." Finds that, because Cooper's technical blunders and moral limitations are always in view, they are revelatory. Suggests that no American author has gotten more things wrong about languages; but no one has dramatized more about how languages…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Languages, Content Analysis, Higher Education
Keneally, Tom – Opinion, The Journal of the South Australian English Teachers' Assn., 1967
The practicing writer encounters four determinants of his use of prose. First, the language itself determines the expression: English, with its wealth of words and styles and with few traditional restrictions, provides problems of choice and temptations to overwrite. Second, the application of verse forms to the novel and a demand for consistently…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Expressive Language, Language
South, M. S. – 1975
Modern poetry can be used as instructional material in beginning foreign language courses to offer a change of pace from the regular instructional materials and an introduction to the literature in the target language. Students also take pride in understanding original literary products of the language being taught. Modern poetry proves to be more…
Descriptors: German, German Literature, Imagery, Instructional Materials
Marckwardt, Albert H.; Quirk, Randolph – 1964
This transcription of radio conversations on the English language between Albert H. Marckwardt and Randolph Quirk, jointly produced by The British Broadcasting Corporation and The Voice of America, indicates that American and British English have never been so different as people have imagined and that the dominant tendency has been toward…
Descriptors: Cultural Exchange, Cultural Influences, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects
Nist, John, Ed. – 1969
The thesis that style through the manner of expression provides the writer or speaker with the matter of his discourse is the subject of these eight essays. Articles are by (1) Louis T. Milic, who explores the implication of stylistic theory for the teaching of composition, (2) Martin Joos, who relates style theories to the national enthusiasm for…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, English Literature, Language Patterns, Language Rhythm