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Direct linkRenata Love Jones; C. Patrick Proctor – Harvard Educational Review, 2024
In this article Renata Love Jones and Patrick Proctor introduce the notion of pursuing language to engage in critical dialogue about the nature and focus of language and literacy education in multilingual and multicultural contexts. A persistent threat in language and literacy education is standardization that constrains how language and literacy…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Literacy Education, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism
Peer reviewedPorcher, Louis – Langue Francaise, 1975
A linguistic analysis of the legends used on advertising posters. The data used is from Winston and Marlboro commercials. (Text is in French.) (TL)
Descriptors: Commercial Art, French, Language Styles, Language Usage
Peer reviewedDouaud, P. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1979
Contrasts the situation of the French language and of sociolinguistic research in France and in Canada. (AM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Ethnography, French, Language Research
Peer reviewedTraugott, Elizabeth Cross – Language Sciences, 1980
Several hypotheses are developed concerning the semantic-pragmatic shifts that take place in the development of grammatical markers such as prepositions, auxiliary verbs and sentence connectives. Over time, grammatical markers shift from being primarily referential to more pragmatic meanings, from propositional to textual to attitudinal. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Function Words, Grammar, Language Patterns
Download full textOstman, Jan-Ola, Ed. – 1978
This collection of papers on semantics and cohesion is organized into two sections: Meaning and Semantics, and Textual Cohesion. Titles and authors are as follows: "Functional Text Semantics, Idioms, and Variability" (Jan-Ola Ostman); "On the Degree of Motivation in Signs Used in Metaphors Involving Plant Symbolism" (Ralf…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis
