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Gup, Ted – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Depending on how one does the math, there are between a quarter-million and a million words in the English language. Of all these words, the author holds in contempt only one. That word is "like"--not the tepid expression of mild appreciation but the parasitic form that now bleeds the mother tongue, marks the user as a dunce, and, were it truly…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Critical Thinking, Ambiguity (Semantics), Semantics
Stokes, Craig R. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation is a study of Castilian transcodic markers in the Catalan written on the Internet. Thirty Castilian transcodic markers representing five categories were run through the interface of the Corpus d'Us del Catala a la Web (CucWeb) to collect information in order to conduct both qualitative and quantitative analysis. The major…
Descriptors: Priming, Language Patterns, Semantics, Nouns

Bochmann, Klaus – Langue Francaise, 1975
Discusses the effectiveness of advertising texts in manipulating public opinion. Emphasis is placed on the connotational aspects of the texts in question. (Text is in French.) (TL)
Descriptors: French, Language Styles, Language Usage, Linguistics
Plett, Heinrich F. – Neueren Sprachen, 1974
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Patterns, Language Styles, Literary Styles
Sandig, Barbara – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1970
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, German, Language Patterns, Language Styles

Levin, Harry; And Others – Language and Speech, 1981
Tests the hypothesis that Latinate words are preferred to Anglo-Saxon words in formal instructions or tasks that vary in formality. Three experiments were done, each implementing varying degrees of formality. Situations that call out Latinate words must be unequivocally formal. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Etymology, Language Styles, Latin, Literary Devices

Petiot, Genevieve – Langue Francaise, 1977
Following a summary of various theories of language levels, a limited number of textbooks are examined according to their orientation toward either a descriptive analysis of the language or encouragement of expression and creativity among students. A bibliography of textbooks, books and articles is included. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Styles

Giles, Howard; And Others – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1992
Provides an initial review of social scientific research on the causes and effects of alcohol use and abuse. A framework is provided for exploring some of fundamental and everyday sociolinguistic and communicative dimensions of drinking, with attention to their implications for drinking and driving practice and anti-drunk-driving campaigns. (118…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Communication (Thought Transfer), Drinking, Driving While Intoxicated

Francik, Ellen P.; Clark, H. – Journal of Memory and Language, 1985
Describes three experiments that show that when requesting information, speakers estimate the greatest potential obstacles to compliance and try to overcome them through their choice of indirect, or conditional, requests. In selecting their request, speakers in most situations try to pinpoint the obstacles as specifically as they can. (SED)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Language Research, Language Styles
Philips, Susan B. – 1980
The specific concern in this study is to consider the nature, social significance, and consequences of syntactic variation in the question forms used by judges when taking guilty pleas from criminal defendents. Nine judges from a court of general jurisdiction in Arizona were observed and tape-recorded while presiding over several procedures that…
Descriptors: Court Judges, Discourse Analysis, Hearings, Language Research
Lavandera, Beatriz R. – 1977
The nature of linguistic variation is examined, particularly the ways in which phonology, morphology, syntax, and other aspects of language vary according to social and situational contexts. A distinction must be made between a difference in frequency of a linguistic variable that carries meaning, and a difference in frequency which carries no…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Language Usage, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory

Pino, Octavio – 1975
The social, economic, political and cultural changes brought about by the Cuban Revolution have elicited linguistic changes. Although the Revolution is only fifteen years old, these changes have reached the morphological and semantic components of the language. This paper explains the Russian influence and discusses and classifies…
Descriptors: Culture Contact, Language Styles, Language Usage, Language Variation
Sherzer, Joel – 1974
This analysis seeks to link discourse structure and semantic or lexical systems. The example is given of a Cuna curing chant named "the way of the pepper," in which 53 names for pepper ("kapur") are used in a projection of a paradigmatic axis (the lexical taxonomy) onto a syntagmatic axis. A corollary of the principle of…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Anthropology, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
Jacobson, Rodolfo – 1974
Today's inclusion of semantics within the overall language design offers proof against the earlier mistaken view that semantics was irrelevant to the study of language. Sociolinguistics have reassessed language as a social matrix that encompasses the sum of linguistic variation present in a given community. Variability in language is described by…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Language Patterns

Dubey, Vinod S. – World Englishes, 1991
Applies a functional perspective to examine aspects of lexical style in English-language Indian newspapers and to explore the dynamics of Indian nativization of English. Findings reveal that the sociocultural constraints of the native situation significantly affect lexicology, with variations influenced more by situations than by language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Styles, Language Usage
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