Offers a definition of generic criticism for discriminating among different approaches to the classificatory study of public rhetoric. Focusses on one approach to generic criticism which centers on the situational nature of rhetoric, providing a method for that approach; and identifies the three operations for the study of rhetorical genre. (JMF)

Describes LASH (project for a list of Australian subject headings) through its development and demise. (RAO)

Discussion of Wayne Wiegand's criticism of library and information science focuses on the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu to help form a new set of frameworks. Topics include social institutions and symbolic power; cultural production and librarianship; and classification as symbolic power. (LRW)

A k-dimensional multivariate normal distribution is made discrete by partitioning the k-dimensional Euclidean space with rectangular grids. The probability integrals over the partitioned cubes forms a k-dimensional contingency table with ordered categories. A loglinear model with main effects plus two-way interactions provides an approximation for…

This project looks at the body of literature related to visual communication and the categories that emerge from the writings to develop a taxonomy of topics and some sense of the location of the most important, or at least the most frequently written about, areas of study. (Author/LRW)

Ethnographic research should not be limited by categorization and typology. Disciplined self-reflection can enrich such studies through systemic examination that can lead to new insights. (SK)

Provides a critical analysis of the development and deployment of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), focusing on discourse surrounding creation of the system's "information" category. Suggests that it functions to position information as a major sector of the economy and to organize data about information as a…

Suggests eight guidelines to aid the analyst in optimizing the manner in which rating scale categories cooperate to improve the usefulness of the resultant measures. Presents these guidelines in the context of Rasch analysis, but notes that they reflect aspects of rating scale functioning that impact all methods of analysis. (SLD)

Infants 7 to 8.5 months of age successfully differentiated 2 spectral structures in the context of variations in fundamental frequency, intensity, and duration. Subjects' performance with nonarbitrary categories could not be attributed to memorization of the familiarized set. (RH)

Notes that the many forms of suicidal phenomena (contemplated, attempted, and completed suicide) present significant problems to researchers and practitioners. Reviews theoretical and empirical efforts to define types of suicidal individuals and attempts to integrate them by means of higher-order categories of variables: (1) descriptive; (2)…

Simulated test data (N=864 artificial data sets) with four different error conditions were used to study the recovery characteristics of the beta-flexible clustering method. Conditions under which the beta-flexible method provides good recovery are discussed. (SLD)

Proposes a classification of elliptical utterances based on a pragmatic analysis of the intention in information seeking dialogs within natural language understanding (NLU) systems. The traditional classification of ellipsis is described, analysis of the dialogs is discussed, and implications for the design of NLU systems are suggested. (Contains…

It is argued that metaphors, rather than simply being comparison statements, are class-inclusion assertions in which the topic of the metaphor is assigned to a diagnostic category, This provides the basis of a metaphor comprehension theory and clarifies why metaphors are used instead of similes. (SLD)

In one of three studies, preschoolers judged that items that shared material properties, such as metal composition, would share dispositional properties, such as corrodibility in water, and that items of the same object type, such as baseball bats, would share functional properties, such as the ability to accelerate a baseball. (BC)

Responds to previous article by Wynkoop critiquing Moriarty's article of adolescent satanism. Notes that author's (Moriarty) previous article addresses satanism from perspective of differential diagnoses and that Wynkoop's critique cites number of improvements that author believes strengthens original article. Notes that some of Wynkoop's points…