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Peer reviewedGuiraud, Pierre – Language Sciences, 1971
Descriptors: Diagrams, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
Juleus, Nels – Social Change, 1972
Describes the creation of a new language for the purpose of increasing participant's understanding of the nature of language. (MB)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Grammar, Language Laboratories, Microteaching
Peer reviewedMullican, James C. – Exercise Exchange, 1987
Presents a poem suitable for teaching Kenneth Burke's concepts of grammar, rhetoric and symbolic in a literary work and explores three elements in the work. (HTH)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, English Instruction, Grammar, Higher Education
Peer reviewedFredrick, Wayne C. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1971
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Grade 8, Grammar
Peer reviewedFrishberg, Nancy – Language, 1975
This paper examines historical processes in American Sign Language (ASL) and shows that there is a tendency for signs to change in the direction of arbitrariness, rather than maintaining a level of iconicity. Changes at the formational level are seen as contributing to language-internal consistency, at the expense of transparency. (Author/CLK)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, Diachronic Linguistics
Download full textFredrick, Wayne C.; And Others – 1968
Seventy-two grade 8 students were randomly assigned to one of four experimental groups. One group studied five programed lessons in structural grammar, written without use of symbols or diagrams. A second group studied the same content presented with a symbolic notation to represent the grammar concepts. A third group studied the same content…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 8, Grammar, Language Instruction
Singleton, Clifford G.; Rice, Paul – 1971
This course involves an approach to language study dealing with the psychology, the process of abstraction, and the levels of the meaning of language. The objectives of the course include demonstrating an understanding of: (1) the origin and nature of language, (2) the process by which language changes and develops, (3) the abstract nature of the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Behavior Patterns, Cultural Education, Curriculum Guides
Ong, Walter J. – 1954
The fifteen essays collected here are grouped under three sections, each dealing with a different, but related theme. The first section, exploring the relationship of literature to the human being, includes "The Jinnee in the Well Wrought Urn,""A Dialectic of Aural and Objective Correlatives,""Metaphor and the Twinned Vision," and"Voice as Summons…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Creativity, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context
