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Glaz, Adam – Language Sciences, 2010
The applicability of Vantage Theory (VT), a model of (colour) categorization, to linguistic data largely depends on the modifications and adaptations of the model for the purpose. An attempt to do so proposed here, called Extended Vantage Theory (EVT), slightly reformulates the VT conception of vantage by capitalizing on some of the entailments of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Language Patterns, English

Grene, David – Journal of General Education, 1987
Perceives a need for new translations and reinterpretations of classical Greek literature. Considers reasons that some translations have passed into oblivion while others remain unsurpassed. Discusses the relationship between modern and ancient languages, the small size of the extant body of classical Greek literature, and the influence of modern…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Greek Literature, Interpretive Skills, Language Patterns
Blount, Harold Parker – 1971
Three different experiments were conducted to examine several variables that influence the recall of prose. In Experiment I a study was made of the influence of differing imagery level nouns as the subject and object of the preposition of a sentence; it also provided a further test of the conceptual peg model, i.e., the concrete-concrete-subject…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Imagery, Language Patterns, Prose
Frase, Lawrence T. – 1973
This study investigated subjects' ability to combine and organize information from different sentences, as well as their ability to retain that information. Ninety-six college undergraduates were given three trials to learn the characteristics of ships from a text. Attributes of each ship were clustered together (name organization), or sentences…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Learning Activities, Learning Processes, Learning Theories

Woodman, Leonora – English Journal, 1973
Illustrates how a linguistic analysis of Hemingway's prose style can be appealing to a student by being precise instead of vague and being a procedure. (MM)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Patterns, Linguistics, Literary Criticism
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

Cook, Guy – Language & Communication, 1995
Argues that, in poetry where phonological patterning is dominant, some deviation from standard uses in the other linguistic systems (grammar, lexis) is inevitable. (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Contrastive Linguistics, Creative Writing, Discourse Analysis
Hiatt, Mary P. – 1975
Based on an extensive computer-aided examination of representative published American writing, this book examines and compares how various kinds of prose employ the diverse forms of parallelism. A scale of rhetorical value for assessing the cooccurring rhetorical devices of repetition is also presented. The chapters are entitled: "Balance or…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Literary Styles, Literature Reviews, Parallelism (Literary)

Fuqua, Robert W.; Phye, Gary D. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1978
The effects of a prose passage's physical structure and semantic organization upon free recall performance was investigated. Passages, describing characteristics of fictitious countries, contained either five or nine paragraphs of varying lengths. Differences in the distribution of materials interacted with type of semantic organization to produce…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Learning Processes

Walker, Robert L. – College Composition and Communication, 1970
Report of an analysis of the prose of five British and five American authors which seems to refute Francis Christensen's contention that the cumulative sentence" is the typical sentence of modern English." (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Authors, English Instruction, Language Patterns, Language Research
Cluett, Robert – 1976
This book is based on the York Computer Inventory of Prose Style, which seeks to provide a quantitative description of the syntactic characteristics of the literary language of specific authors over the last 400 years. After a brief theoretical introduction and a description of texts and sampling procedures, the discussion turns to specific…
Descriptors: Databases, Language Patterns, Language Styles, Literary Criticism

Souza, Raymond D. – Hispania, 1969
Descriptors: Characterization, Formal Criticism, Hispanic American Literature, Language Patterns
Ventola, Eija, Ed. – 1991
Articles included in this compilation represent functional approaches to literary analysis. Most of these papers were presented at the Sixteenth International Systemics Congress held in Helsinki, Finland, in 1989. The aim of the congress was to establish dialogue between various functional approaches to the theoretical study of language, to…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Literary Genres
Schank, Roger C.; And Others – 1975
SAM (Script Applier Mechanism), a computer program designed to understand stories that rely heavily on scripts (typical sequences of events in particular contexts), is described in this report. Chapter one, which discusses SAM's background, shows how causal chaining was developed to connect events in stories, presents a typical script, and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cognitive Processes, Computer Programs, Conceptual Schemes
Hayes, Donald S.; And Others – 1978
This study examined the effect(s) of rhyme on the recognition and recall of story events by 32 nursery school children at the University of Maine Child Study Center. Although subjects reported liking stories better when they were presented as nursery rhymes rather than prose passages, recognition of story events was significantly higher for prose…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Patterns, Memory, Nursery Rhymes
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