Just as the adoption of eXtensible Business Reporting Language has standardized the exchange, transmission, and reporting of accounting and financial data, this paper proposes the eXtensible Computing Curriculum Reporting Language as a standard for the exchange, transmission, and reporting of computing curriculum information in hopes of achieving…

Rhythm is a phenomenon that fundamentally affects the perception of events unfolding in time. In language, we define "rhythm" as the temporal structure that underlies the perception and production of utterances, whereas "meter" is defined as the regular occurrence of beats (i.e. stressed syllables). In stress-timed languages such as German, this…

Examines the relationship among dictionaries, language, discourse, and ideology. The nature of the definition and the object of the dictionary's description are discussed. (AM)

Examines the notions of ambiguity and disambiguation, and of understanding word meaning as facets of communication. (CK)

This paper studies the composition and scope of the information sciences. These arise, or will arise, from the dependence of the modern world upon records, and therefore upon means to facilitate discourse. Such means range from the physical to the conceptual, but all entail aspects of language, therefore they must all involve social activities,…

Examines the question of whether translation is possible, relating it to the question of linguistic and cultural constraints on translation, and to the question of the relationship between language and thought. Recommendations are made for the improvement of the study of translating. (AM)

THE WAY IN WHICH WE CONCEIVE OF REALITY IS DEPENDENT UPON THE LANGUAGE SYSTEM WE USE. EACH LANGUAGE SYSTEM, WHETHER THAT OF A WHOLE CULTURE, A SUBCULTURE, OR AN INDIVIDUAL, EMBODIES IN ITS VOCABULARY AND SYNTAX AND RULES OF "GRAMMAR" A SET OF ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE NATURE OF REALITY AND THE CORRECT WAYS TO MAKE SENSE OF THINGS. THUS, UNDERSTANDING…

A random sampling of linguistic terms, idioms, phrases--drawn mostly from the current linguistic literature in English--is examined to determine what kinds of unrealistic or confusing assumptions about language may be subtly embedded in such expressions. (Author/RM)

Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (DD)

Special issue on translation. (VM)

This study investigated semantic aspects of children's language as it is related to emotional expression. Children's ratings of vocabulary items categorized as expressing happy, sad, loving, angry, confident, and scared feelings were examined in three different ways: in isolation, in verbal contexts, and accompanying pictures of emotional…

This study is a critical, analytic, and historical survey of the development of the American English dictionary from its beginning in 1798 until the publication of the Webster-Mahn dictionary in 1864. The survey is divided historically into three sections: (1) the British influence upon early American dictionaries, pre-Websterian American…

The teaching of poetry in secondary and undergraduate classrooms is the subject of the six articles in this publication. Robert Donaldson states that exercises which help students understand the power of language are useful preludes to a semantic approach to poetry. Michael J. Cardone upholds the use of biographical and external evidence in the…

These materials constitute an exploratory program for grade 6 Spanish and French. Introductory units contain sample lessons, suggested activities, and test items. These units are entitled: (1) Language in Indiana; (2) How Languages Operate; (3) Detecting Meaning: Aztec Dialect; (4) How Words Came to Be and Mean What They Do; (5) Language Is Sound;…