Surveys, creative language lessons, and games can help students examine English usage as a function of appropriateness. (DD)

Discusses the writings of Fred Newton Scott in the first quarter of the twentieth century, pointing out their applicability to English teaching today. (DD)

More and more Americans are under pressure to improve their writing and speaking--but extra work may be needed to halt erosion of language. (Editor)

A set of five noun features proposed by Chomsky for characterizing the selectional restriction of English verbs are examined. Examples are presented to show how the "small" set of features is both "too broad" and "too narrow" at once. (SW)

This article describes the work of the Royal Academy of Science and the Royal Academy of Spanish in developing current scientific and technical vocabulary. (NCR)

Discusses Bernstein's "language deficit" theory ("restricted code" of the lower social class versus the "elaborated code" of upper-class speakers) and Labov's "language difference" theory. The former is rejected, and the latter is favored. Sociolinguistics should consider more than mere social-class language differences. (Text is in German.)…

Lists competing forms in written French selected on the basis of three criteria: (1) expressions which can be written in two equally acceptable ways, (2) those in which the two forms differ slightly in meaning, and (3) those in which one form is considered correct but is now questioned. (MLA)

Attempts to refine the concept of indirect communication by distinguishing a number of different forms of indirect communication such as hinting, suggesting and insinuating. (MH)

Examines former President Ford's consistent use of the war metaphor in an attempt to explain the domestic problem of inflation and posits various reasons for the war metaphor's failure to be accepted by the American public. (MH)

In English there seems to be a large group of so-called reflexive verbs that do not possess any definable reflexive meaning. Grammatical reflexives are distinguishable from semantic reflexives and display considerable variation from one another also. Eight patterns or groupings of verbs are considered. (Author/SW)

Rationale for encouraging students' use of precise words. (AA)

Ordering preferences for English adjectives in attributive (prenominal) and predicative (postnominal) positions were found to be in general agreement. Semantically congruent and incongruent adjectives were compared regarding ordering preferences and a "borrowing" theory is proposed. (CHK)

The grammatical deviations produced by 26 migrant children were categorized into tenses (formation and usage), pronoun usage, subject-verb agreement, possessive adjectives, negation, number concord in antecedents, irregular morpheme construction, irregular syntactic constructions, modification of nouns, preposition substitution, word omission in…

A discussion of the use of the preposition "de" in Spanish, based on the distinction "Calle Carniceria" or "Calle de Carniceria." A simplification of usage under several headings is presented. Regarding "Calle de,""de" is preferred if a proper noun follows it. (Text is in Spanish.) (AMH)

The uses of the eleven Spanish clitic pronouns are discussed for various regional dialects and formal and colloquial speech in Spain and Latin America. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)