A new theory of sign structure is proposed which explains the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic classification of signs. The theory comprises in part a language capable of relating studies of information processes across a range of disciplines, including communication science psychology, computer science, and linguistics. The power and utility of…

This selective bibliography lists 13 books and 53 journal articles dealing with Spanish-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1935 to 1972 with the majority published since 1965. Most of the books cited were published in Great Britain or the United States and the articles appeared in well-known pedagogical language journals…

Application of linguistic principles in the teaching of French in secondary schools and colleges is the main objective of this introductory text for teachers. Part One treats basic methodological considerations, among which psychological aspects of language learning, the use of English in the classroom, types of exercises used in language drills,…

This volume of papers reports the fieldwork and linguistic analysis done on K'ekchi, a Mayan language spoken by about 500,000 people in the departments of Alta Verapaz and Peten in Guatemala as well as in the southern part of Belize. The work was done by five anthropology and linguistics graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin with…

This collection of twenty-six papers is the fourth resulting from the Polish-English Contrastive Project. The overall purpose of the project is to prepare a Polish-English contrastive grammar and to develop pedagogical materials. The basic model used for research is the transformational generative one. Among the papers on phonology, topics such as…