The article contrasts two interpretations of the concept of normalization for mentally handicapped persons and compares the treatment orientations each suggests. (DB)

Presents impressions and reflections on the scope of information science and studies in the field, allegiance of its professionals, and applications of its ideas in the real world. (MBR)

A definition of chemistry is presented. (BB)

Discusses the process and problems involved in organizing bilingual or multilingual dictionaries. (AM)

Defines modern tragicomedy and focuses on Henrik Ibsen's play, "Little Eyolf" as representative of this literary genre. (MH)

The author distinguishes between three separate aspects of sensory loss: impairment, handicap, and disability, and provides operational definitions of each aspect. (IM)

Uses multiple typefaces to express multiple voices that call into question the conventional wisdom about collaboration and collaborative writing. Presents vignettes. Discusses "indefinite definitions," multivalent texts/ambivalent authors, collaboration and community, collaboration and identity, and collaboration qua textuality. (RS)

Analyzes the location of "value" in technical communication contexts, arguing that current models of technical communication embrace an outdated, self-deprecating, industrial approach subordinating information to concrete technological products. Argues that by rethinking technical communication in terms of Reich's "symbolic-analytic…

Interviews with 114 beginning nursing students were distilled into an inductive framework of professional nursing identity based on their definitions of nursing. Multiple categories were classified into three themes: nursing as noun, verb, and transaction. Results show the extent of students' understanding of the profession. (Contains 21…

Investigates the effects of word concreteness and either imagery, verbal, or control strategy instructions on the composition of written definitions. Reveals significant effects of word concreteness on several quantity and quality variables, but no significant effect of strategy instructions or interaction between concreteness and strategy…

Provides a chronological perspective of human performance technology (HPT) definitions and an evaluation of them in terms of independent and dependent variables. Discusses human competence and performance technology and compares the definitions with the goals that have been articulated for HPT. (Author/LRW)

Examines the relationship between paradigmatic and syntagmatic word knowledge. Familiar concrete nouns were administered in Spanish and English to bilingual students. Students were tested on the ability to provide superordinates, adequate definitions, and object descriptions. Producing superordinates in Spanish was a reliable predictor of the same…

Analyzes the compatibility of science with rhetorical inquiry. Provides definitions of rhetorical and scientific inquiry and delineates their plurality of current transformations. Discusses when these transformations are incompatible and when they are compatible. (KEH)

Details a history of the term "pragmatics" and how it influences lexicography. Three pragmatic aspects of dictionaries are discussed, including: 1) the cultural setting; 2) equivalence in bilingual dictionaries; 3) the lexicographic definition. Lexicographic definitions illustrate how a dictionary is largely based on pragmatics. (Author/LMO)

Discusses various views of domain-specificity. Argues that it is time to move beyond an acknowledgment that constraints on the way knowledge is represented influence the way in which new learning proceeds. Directions for future research are pointed out. (RH)