Examines the narrative story structure of a short American Sign Language narrative using stylistic analysis plus the structure of pausing in the narrative. (FL)

The debate over use of self disclosure in the interpersonal communication course is an important issue for all instructors, particularly for those with limited teaching experience. The debate focuses on whether it is ethical and/or practical to encourage students to engage in highly personal self disclosure and the uses of self disclosure as…

Attempts both to reconcile the divergent critical views which have grown about the novel and to determine whether this critical examination can have any meaning for those readers who find the novel useless--or worse--in terms of their own experience. (JM)

Special issue devoted to contemporary Spanish American literature. (DS)

Identifies--and labels as elegiac romance"--a group of 19th and 20th century American, English, and European novels in which a narrator relates the story of a heroic, questing figure to whom he is committed in attempting to overcome the effect of loss which results from" the hero's death. (Author/RD)

Works by Mexican writers, Mariano Azuela, Carlos Fuentes, Mauricio Magdaleno, Austin Yanez, and Rosario Castellanos are cited. (DS)

Use of cognitive capacity was measured during reading of text in six experiments. Results were consistent with a comprehensibility theory stating that when more meaning is produced in reader's cognitive system while reading a text, more cognitive capacity is filled by reading it. (FL)

Analyzes parables--teaching stories--to explore the significance of these rhetorical devices as forms of discourse and as acts of relational communication. (PD)