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Granger, Gilles – Languages, 1974
(Text is in French.)
Descriptors: Language, Linguistic Theory, Philosophy, Semantics
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Beardsley, Monroe C. – College English, 1974
The task of keeping language alive is a task for all teachers. (JH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English Instruction, Freedom of Speech, Language
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Herold, Arthur L. – Language Learning, 1983
Presents a rationale for undertaking the study of language. Views this study as a psychological investigation into how the self forms an identity of itself through its language, rather than how it is formed by its language. Thus, the structure of language is seen as a representational system, allowing a multiplicity of meanings. (SL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Universals
Cowell, Catherine R. – 1972
One of the central issues in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel is the distinction between "problem" and "mystery." The author claims that speech communication scholars find it necessary to objectify elements of communication in the framework of a problem in order to find answers in the form of systematic theories to explain the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Existentialism, Humanities, Inner Speech (Subvocal)
Shands, Harley C. – 1971
Semiotic research increasingly reveals the basic importance of structure at all levels of genetic, linguistic, and social process. The paradox that structure not only liberates but also imprisons has been familiar to members of many different cultures, and the search for personal release in transcendent states of feeling contrapuntally illuminates…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Individual Development, Linguistic Theory, Mysticism
Kristeva, Julia, Ed.; And Others – 1971
This collection, representing the fruits of recent international work, consists of reprints of articles from the 1967 and 1968 issues of the journal "Social Science Information." It brings together a variety of studies by semioticians of both East and West--treatments of theoretical and methodological issues of modern semiotics, semiotic analysis…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Bibliographies, Discourse Analysis, Films