The devolution of language usage in today's media must be combatted by a return to the careful introduction, reading, analysis, and understanding of the great writers of the early twentieth, nineteenth, and eighteenth centuries. (Author/MJB)

Discusses findings which suggest that frequency adverbs do affect the perceived aggresiveness of sentences at most levels of verbal aggression. (MH)

In this discussion, the author's last public presentation before his death in 1974, is a dedication to dialogue as the essence of education. In the midst of modern consciousness-altering technology, he valued authentic conservation more powerful than LSD, meditation, and all the rest. (Editor/RK)

The data support Lakoff's hypotheses that the female register is used more by women than by men, although they do not necessarily justify her further assertion that women's speech reflects, or is caused by, the low status of women in our society. (Author/HP)

A number of experimental tasks were conducted in which subjects were asked to interpret and create novel noun-noun compounds. Results indicate that semantic relationships that hold between members of these compounds cannot be characterized in terms of a finite list of appropriate compounding relationships. (CHK)

The organization of repair in a corpus of conversations in the Lue, Yuan (or Myang), and Siamese dialects of Tai is examined with regard to the preference for self-correction described previously for an English corpus. In both, repair is an identically organized sequential phenomenon involving repair segments during conversation. (CHK)

Investigated were the language styles used by three teachers in a school for the moderately, severely, and profoundly handicapped in a one-to-one teaching situation with 8 children (8 to 17 years old). (IM)

Explores the relational aspects of speech and markers which point up relational aspects according to the pupil's adjustment to his peer group and its activities and to institutional aspects of school life. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)

Presents the theoretical and methodological bases of a study designed to test the validity of Bernstein's theories on the role of language in school segregation. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)

These tenses may be taught effectively through pattern drills and structural exercises, followed by careful explanations designed to distinguish them from the plus-que-parfait, which may be taught concurrently. Guidelines for textbook presentation of these tenses are included, as are descriptions of their forms and usages. (DB)

Shows the development of the social place of women as reflected in the change in usage of words denoting women's roles. The contemporary connotations of such words as "Weib" and "Hausfrau" are defined and the development of these connotations is outlined and compared to the meanings of equivalent terms for men. (Text is in German.) (TL)

The unity of past and present provided by historical novels changes reading about history from dull lessons to interesting stories that youngsters can emphathize and identify with and that, in many cases, strongly relate to their own experiences. (Author)

Presents ten categories which illustrate the range of the uses of language, and discusses implications for instruction. (DD)

Latin America is the most widely used of the terms, but a more precise designation, at least in scholarly usage, would be useful. Distinctions are made on the basis of language in favor of the terms in the title. A bibliographical note for further reference is appended. (AMH)

Usage of the German "doch" is explained as an aid to teaching. (CHK)