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Download full textLAFFAL, JULIUS – 1966
A TECHNIQUE OF ANALYSIS OF SYMBOLISM IS PRESENTED, BASED ON THE IDEA THAT WORDS WHICH APPEAR IN CLOSE ASSOCIATION IN THE SPEECH OR WRITING OF AN INDIVIDUAL ARE PSYCHOLOGICALLY CLOSELY RELATED. THE LATENT MEANING, OR SYMBOLISM, OF A WORD IS ELUCIDATED BY SHOWING HOW CLOSE IT IS, CONCEPTUALLY, TO OTHER SELECTED WORDS OR THEMES IN THE INDIVIDUAL'S…
Descriptors: Language Research, Psycholinguistics, Symbolic Language
Hedley, Carolyn N. – Elem Engl, 1970
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Structural Analysis, Student Teacher Relationship
Peer reviewedCromer, Jim L. – Art Education, 1975
Article investigated the influence upon our lives played by verbal language and its role in art education. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Cognitive Processes, Language Role, Language Usage
Peer reviewedSebeok, Thomas A. – Semiotica, 1975
Deals with the relationship existing between the signifier and the signified components of signs, and with problems in the definition of signs. It is also concerned with recognizing the relationship of semiotics to developmental psychology and ethology. (Available from Semiotica, Co-Libri, P.O. Box 482, The Hague 2076, The Netherlands)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Developmental Psychology, Nonverbal Communication, Psycholinguistics
Peer reviewedWilkinson, Krista M.; McIlvane, William J. – Developmental Review, 2001
Describes a methodology that may offer an operationalized model that allows empirical analysis of paired associate versus symbolic learning. Presents an operational definition of the phenomenon in question and why it might be useful to model the phenomenon. Illustrates distinct advantages offered within this approach to scholars interested in…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Children, Classification
Peer reviewedOsolsobe, Ivo – Language Sciences, 1971
Paper presented at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, on December 2, 1970. (DS)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cybernetics, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedRobinson, Jacques H.; Griffith, Penny L. – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Explores the operational and conceptual meanings of the iconicity of manual signs and sign languages. Empirical studies related to the operational definition of iconicity in American Sign Language are described, and implications of parallels between iconicity and "stimulus meaningfulness" are discussed in relation to the scientific…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Literature Reviews
Salomon, Gavriel – 1978
The class of media characteristics, which is generic to them and which may be of potentially great relevance to learning, is the way in which media select, highlight, structure, and present information, i.e., their "languages" or symbol systems. How, if at all, and why do symbol systems, in general, differentially relate to cognition and learning?…
Descriptors: Art, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Learning Modalities
Peer reviewedSnyder, Lynn S. – New Directions for Child Development, 1987
Discusses research results that demonstrate that nonlinguistic symbolic deficits of language-impaired children may actually reflect resource allocation constraints and cross-modality deficits. Discusses implications of studies that contrast symbolic action development in normally developing children with that in children with specific language…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
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
