Observes that college students seem to produce a very pure form of epideictic discourse, an Aristotelian mode appropriate to speeches before the general public. Considers the implications of this observation, why teachers should understand college students' fascination with the epideictic, and how teachers can show them its appropriate and…

The ways in which Black consciousness and experience emerge in the works of three Black poets are explored in this article. Historical, cultural, psychological, and linguistic influences are considered. (GC)

Discusses the important role that language has in our society and compares human communication to animal group communication. Gives specific examples of corruption in the Spanish language today. (NCR)

Focuses on the semantic effects of collective bargaining in higher education, attempting to determine what the semantic reactions are to the language of the labor union as used by unversity faculty and to the language of industrial management as used by academic administrators. (GT)

Compares Lodge's (1979) examples of children's use of the past tense in pretend play with examples of the use of other moods and of modal auxiliaries. (AM)

Presents 26 German words and phrases that are used in Spanish today. Definitions are provided and examples of their use in Spanish texts are given. (NCR)

The relationship between forms of language and social stratification is examined using the English language as an example of an open system of status denotation and the Korean language as an example of a closed system. (SW)

Indicates that pictures that elicit children's language depict more actions, children, and people than do pictures that elicit lesser amounts of language from children. (FL)

Traces the history of the development of ecclesiastical law, and describes some of the difficulties in modern day translation of the Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church. (AM)

This article examines the role of the subjunctive mood in spoken and written French. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

The use of "some" and "any" does not depend solely on syntactic factors (sentence type), as hitherto taught, but also on the speaker's expectation and other pragmatic elements and on semantic factors not limited to those of quantification. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

This article gives a preliminary analysis of the "Survey of Canadian English," which was conducted across Canada in 1972. The article deals with various problems with a view to facilitating a more exhaustive evaluation of the data stored at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. (Text is in German.) (Author/CFM)

This paper discusses a previously unidentified turn-allocation technique - third person reference. When such a reference is used, participants are orienting to the solution of a practical organizational problem: how to keep at least one of their number from talking, while preserving the right of all others to talk. (Author/CFM)

The preposing of subject pronouns in questions containing an interrogative word has become common in several Caribbean countries. Use of preposing with "tu,""usted" and "ustedes" is discussed, including its relation to final "s" aspirated or dropped, preservation of morphological oppositions, and increased use of subject pronouns. (CHK)

Explores both paranoid and non-paranoid political discourse including the nature of the evidence and the extent to which such evidence is distorted. Contends that study results affirm the value of the Hofstadter evidence-inference dichotomy. (MH)