A semiological study examined the products and processes of sexual identity/identification by "reading" newspaper sports photographs from three distinct but interrelated ideological positions (the dominant heterosexual culture, a residual reading which resists the dominant interpretation and asserts equality, and an emergent reading that…

The French and English terms for characteristics of human beauty are compared and contrasted from the perspective of how sociosemiotic factors influence the ways different speech communities deal with reality. First, background and theoretical approaches to sociosemiotically based research are discussed. The adjectives examined are listed and the…

This annotated bibliography, developed as a part of a course in methodology for teaching English as a Second Language (ESL), focuses on the pragmatic approach, which emphasizes development of language as communication through immersion in the target language and culture. The bibliography contains 44 citations of books, articles, and book chapters.…

This annotated bibliography, part of a series on rehabilitation of Native Americans who are disabled, focuses on health care issues. The bibliography lists 34 books, journal articles, and reports published between 1971 and 1985. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author. (JDD)

Interview conversation with a female black student explodes the racial myth currently circulating in America that a large proportion of contemporary black Americans wish to separate as much as possible from white Americans, repudiating the promise of an integrated society. (Author/AM)

This article contended that the problems and frustrations encountered in the culture shock process are important to an understanding of change and movement experiences, and that such transitional experiences can be the source of higher levels of personality development. (Author/RK)

Historically, homosexual literature has been ignored, destroyed, and misinterpreted by tacit agreement of all the respectable forces in our homophobic culture. (JH)

The most valuable contribution of a viable gay criticism may be in promoting interaction between homosexual and heterosexual segments of the literary public. (JH)

In the fall of 1973, Grand Rapids, Michigan, hosted an ambitious citywide exhibit of monumental public sculpture. Thirteen public sculptures were placed around the city as the result of cooperation between civic leaders (plus the co-sponsorship of the museum) and art professionals. (BT)

This document contains two case studies of Czechoslovakian adult education: (1) Czechoslovakian Adult Education (Skoda) and (2) the House of Culture and Its Function in Adult Education (Hartl). Each study begins with a "face sheet" on which is recorded basic information about the entity studied and the case study itself. About half of…

Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism has applications to rhetoric and composition instruction. Dialogism, sometimes translated as intertextuality, is the term Bakhtin used to designate the relation of one utterance to other utterances. Dialogism is not dialogue in the usual sense of the word; it is the context which informs utterance, and…

This bibliography focuses on the people of Appalachia and their social issues and concerns. It includes scholarly research on social issues about Appalachian people published since the 1980 edition of the "Appalachian Bibliography." Material is arranged according to subject matter. Bibliographies, general references, and periodicals provide an…

Leading academic feminists charge that the traditional college curriculum promotes sexism and social injustice, and that Western culture is a flawed concept from the start because all that it has recorded for succeeding generations has been dominated by a male bias. This "gender feminism," in contrast to "equity feminism," aims to transform…

This paper focuses on difficulties and possibilities of theory and research on emotional attachment in humans and problems associated with exclusive reliance on the Strange Situation procedure in cross cultural research. After specifying emotional consequences of qualitatively different attachment histories and appropriate ways of assessing their…