This volume of the Carnegie Series in English is entitled "A Modern Miscellany". (DS)

Focuses upon the importance of understanding the consequences of the "myth, masking, and mode" in guiding the language development of black disadvantaged children; based upon a paper presented before the Niagara Linguistic Frontier. (RD)

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Los Angeles, California, February, 1969, and supported by the U.S. Office of Education which demonstrates the potential value of instructing children to understand certain linguistic forms involved in the communication of relationships. (author)

Contrary to David Olson's claim that authority is conveyed by textbook language, it is mainly the school context of textbooks that establishes their authority--and that of teachers--in students' minds. The curriculum is not in the text but in the social rules reflected by school organization and teachers' authority. (JW)

Although Luke, de Castell, and Luke rightly notice the role of social structure in the authority of the textbook, the pattern of social authority outside the school is primarily reflected in the text itself. The task for writers, then, is to clarify the grounds for their authoritative claims. (JM)

A study investigated whether activities could be designed to elicit seven specific language functions in kindergartners: self-maintaining, directing, reporting, towards logical reasoning, predicting, projecting, and imagining. Language functions were not equally elicited by all activities, but changing activity was effective in varying language…

A study was undertaken to separate elements of maternal speech heavily influenced by the children's language levels from those representing the mothers' consistent style or strategy for "teaching" language. A striking similarity was found between speech mothers used with their daughters and that used with their daughters' friends. (MSE)

It is suggested that what discourages students in reading literature in a foreign language is difficulty in comprehending literary language, making literature appreciation a scholarly pursuit. Techniques of looking at the novel and its construction that facilitate appreciation are outlined. (MSE)

A model is proposed for analysis of the patterns of language usage among lawyers. The model accommodates any sample of legal language from any type of legal document and can be applied to lexical and syntactic elements as well as whole documents. One example of legal language is illustrated. (MSE)

A survey of literature on legal writing from 1969 through 1980 covers 45 journal articles and ERIC documents on needs for prelaw and law-school curricula and paralegal training. Highly technical materials are included only when they shed light on general issues of legal language. (MSE)

The concept of journalistic norms and recent French experience with this are reviewed. It is concluded that the press might be a reasonable arbiter between conservative institutional norms and recent rapid change in the French language. (MSE)

Reports conversational topics among same-sex adult friends, co-workers, siblings, parents and children. Confirms findings of previous researchers but also reveals insights concerning same-sex conversational interactions, especially the sex differences in talk about sports. Includes the self-report questionnaire and tables of reported frequency of…

Reports findings from research regarding sex differences in language use and indicates ways that teachers can involve students in examining sex-linked language in textbooks and other reading materials. (FL)