Misunderstanding words and word meanings creates problems between teachers and students. Solutions are offered to business education teachers for helping increase students' word knowledge. (TA)

A discussion of legal and administrative language, and the necessity for accurate translation of this language in the field of international relations. Topics treated are: characteristic features of legal and administrative terminology; the interpretation of it; and the technique of translating legal and administrative texts. (AMH)

This study of the medieval Spanish concept of order examines uses made of the word "y" ("and") in Spanish medieval writing to join words and phrases connoting social, natural and human order. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

Identifies three dominant instructional models that deny the legitimacy of minority dialects and illustrates how none of these models are affirmative of a student's rights to his or her own language. (MH)

The article discusses (1) the nature of the Minority Language Provisions of the Voting Rights Act and their implications for Hispanic participation; (2) central issues critical to an effective administration of the provisions; and, (3) specific issues that must be addressed if Hispanic communities are to ensure their self-enfranchisement. (NQ)

The results of a survey in which 50 British university students were asked to assess the acceptability of 40 indirect object sentences are analyzed, and some problems inherent in English indirect object constructions are discussed. (DS)

Levels of lexical specificity are discussed in terms of the way various terms are used to convey different feelings, meanings and semantic effects. (CHK)

This analysis examined twentieth-century Spanish American works, geographically distributed throughout the area and including all genres. Results are given by genre and by nation. (RM)

Offers suggestions related to the following aspects of student publications: the use of photographs on the front page, language usage in news stories, the "personals" column, and getting story ideas. Provides some facts about trends in newspaper publication and in the size of the high school population. (GW)

This study analyzes more than 1,500 expressions or orthographic conventions adopted by advertisers for many consumer products that depart significantly from ordinary standards of correctness. (HOD)

The opinions of various grammarians and linguists about the correct usage of "adonde" and "a donde" are presented. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

Reviews distinctions between negative and positive letters and summarizes the advice commonly offered for conveying negative messages. Outlines the tenets of Grice's theory of conversational implicature, and discusses sociolinguistic explanations for the use of indirectness in negative messages. Analyzes the texts of several letters, using Grice's…

Testing of eight-year-olds (N=159) with a battery of metalinguistic tasks, intelligence, and reading comprehension tests indicated that the relation among performance on metalinguistic tasks was strongest for those tasks relying on the same processing skill component. One of these components was most significant in determining the child's level of…

Analyzes research regarding children's acquisition and understanding of modal meaning. Results indicate that eight-year-olds have only a rudimentary system of modal meaning, and 12-year-olds' systems were not isomorphic with the adult system. (Author/CB)

A rule for the appropriate use of German equivalents to the English conjunction "after" is described and illustrated to help students avoid imposing English usage on German sentences. (MSE)