This study compared the performance of referred bilingual Hispanic children on the Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, Successive (PASS) theory as measured by English and Spanish versions of the Cognitive Assessment System (CAS; Naglieri & Das, 1997a). The results suggest that students scored similarly on both English and Spanish versions of…

The principal nominal deictic affixes of Bella Coola, a Salishan language of British Columbia, are examined. (Author/RM)

Advocates "pure intra-linguistic" criteria (rather than those of traditional grammar) to account for French usage in country names. The relationships between the phonology and the gender, and the use of the article and appropriate prepositional phrase, are suggested. A list of exceptions would be necessary. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Discusses the presence of linguistic norms as regulating language use in social contexts, and distinguishes between statistical and nomothetic norms: denies there is a social nomothetic norm. (CK)

Points out to the anachronistic usage of certain pronouns in Spanish, particularly that of "usted-es" and "vosotros." (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

Issues of empowerment have led rhetoricians as professionals to reexamine the notion of rhetorical history and to recast what is thought to be known of the past as a collection of histories--each necessarily selective, ideologically biased, and incomplete, many potentially conflicting and all, to some degree, creative fictions. Susan Jarratt,…

Considers the various usages of 'interesting' in English as a problem confronted by non-native English speakers learning the language. (LG)

The study of literature such as Orwell's works will not solve issues in contemporary culture and thought, but it can help one detect abstract language in the discussion and formulation of issues.

Article attempted to define the metaphor and listed some of the main kinds of metaphor. (Author/RK)

Author discussed dictionaries in the classroom and their value to students as well as teachers. (Author/RK)

Suggests that understanding your semantic environment begins with recognizing you have no choice about being the center of your universe, that the feelings you have are the single most important part of your life, and that it is about your feelings that you speak, despite whatever else you may think you speak about. (TO)

Article investigated some assumptions underlying most of the speculation, theory, and experimentation in the search to define creativity. (Author/RK)

Analyzes three examples of teacher language to determine what effects language has on pupil learning. (RB)

Argues that designers must learn to use language to communicate ideas instead of sell products in consumer oriented western societies. (RB)

Describes the role of the semantic therapist in correcting language distortions due to lack of specificity, inaccurate assumptions, and failure to ascribe accurately the characteristics of a person. (RB)