Discusses the nature of legal discourse and demonstrates that an analysis of its intellectual structure reveals its distance from the voice of the people. (AM)

This bibliography cites books and articles in English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian concerning alexia and other language disorders. (CLK)

This article discusses the role of neurological damage in the form of lesions, as it relates to alexia. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Special issue devoted to neurolinguistics and neuropsychology. (VM)

This article reviews the various neurolinguistic explanations and models put forth for alexia. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Analyzes in detail the expressions used by 39 grade school children explaining--in writing--the rules of a ball game. The analysis focuses on the linguistic strategies employed to define the actors and the actions of the game and establishes correlations between these strategies and the sociocultural background of the writers. (MES)

This article presents an overview of neuropsychological and neurolinguistic research done in the field of alexia between 1838 and 1969. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

This article reviews studies done on alexia and describes experiments designed to distinguish qualitatively between pure alexia (marked by the absence of oral and written problems) and other forms of alexia. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

The question of whether apparent similarity of two languages really facilitates the learning process is raised. Linguistic and pedagogical problems involved in the instruction of languages which resemble each other are discussed. (Text is in French.) (TL)

A study of graphic disorders observed afflicted with cortical lesions. The topics discussed are: elements of graphic activity, linguistic theories on the relationship between written and spoken language and the principal theses of aphasiologists on disorders in written language. A bibliography is attached. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

By presenting preliminary results of joint experiments conducted by speech pathologists and linguists, this article discusses the possibility of further neuropsycholinguistic research. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Analyses the differences among writing samples by secondary school students in terms of the writer's ability to achieve certain stylistic requirements and to produce a well organized discourse. Relates underachievement to social factors and to educational methods that overemphasize the role of the written language. (MES)