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Peer reviewedGirardin, Chantal – Langue Francaise, 1979
Demonstrates how French dictionaries from the seventeenth century onwards have used elimination or definition to censure certain words unacceptable to the bourgeois ideology of the times.
Descriptors: Definitions, Dictionaries, French, Language Usage
Peer reviewedDucey, Michael – Contemporary Education, 1980
The increasing failure of cross-generational cultural transmission in America can be examined through research into the meaning of adolescent language usage. Adolescents view inconsistencies in adult society as contradictory to imposed norms. Since society is experiencing a loss of culture, secondary schools need to become the locus for its…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Culture Conflict, Educational Anthropology, Language Usage
