Various conceptions of metaphor worked out within a generative framework are presented. The term metaphor is used to denote any instance of figurative language use. It is concluded that the restrictions imposed by Chomsky's theory are too idiosyncratic for any adequate study of metaphor to be developed within its framework. (Available from: See FL…

Kellogg Community College revised its catalog to make it more student-oriented by explaining open enrollment, credit hours, contact hours, individualized instruction, modular units, etc., in concise lay terms. 80,000 new catalogs were published as Sunday supplements to 6 area newspapers in June 1974. (DC)

The pragmatic use of nicknames as clarifiers separates the Maltese usage from those so common throughout the world where the nickname is used as a means of hiding identity. The familial character of most nicknames in Malta suggests they are the vestiges of a pre-Christian naming system. The major peculiarity in Malta is in the intermingling of…

Many authors of adolescent novels follow a formula when developing a pattern of action. The formula, however, is not predictable and may be one of action, humor, or ideas. (JH)

This paper advises poetry readers to get rid of the inhibitions that the search for conventional meaning creates, by invoking the tenet that "a poem must not mean but be." The paper presents and analyzes several poems, maintaining that good poetry is an honest presentation of real experience that rarely offers information about any short-term…

Almost every discussion of technical or scientific writing style mentions the passive voice as a stylistic choice to avoid. However, the passive voice does have legitimate uses in technical and scientific writing--the problem is to define the appropriate or effective uses and the inappropriate or ineffective ones. An examination of passive voice…

While editors have no way of encoding most of the features of the human voice, they are often able to use punctuation and other devices to give the impression of speech. While retaining many distinctive features of a personal voice is possible in writing, considerations of voice are inseparable from considerations of textual features and audience…

Antecedents of linguistic nonimmediacy were examined in a four-factor analysis of covariance with repeated measures design. Immediacy refers to the language of a message expressing a close relationship to the referent, while nonimmediacy suggests that the language expresses a more distant relationship. Subjects in the study were 118 college…

Student writers should be encouraged to move beyond a "jargon" or "public discourse" model of writing. This can be accomplished by capitalizing on the students' knack for imitation by turning it into public parody. After being divided into small panels of three, four, or five members, students are assigned a voice and topic and asked to develop a…

THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY COVERS THE FIELD OF READABILITY AND READING. THE SELECTED WORKS ARE ORGANIZED INTO NINE SECTIONS--(1) GENERAL REFERENCES ON READABILITY, (2) MEASURING OF READABILITY, (3) READABILITY AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE, (4) READABILITY AND VOCABULARY, (5) READABILITY AND LITERARY STYLE, (6) READABILITY IN SUBJECT AREA MATERIALS, (7)…

This volume of Persian language texts is designed to accompany the author's "Modern Persian Prose Literature" (Cambridge,1966), and contains representative passages from the works of the more important Iranian writers of the last 100 years. The selections, from 26 different sources, are intended to familiarize the foreign student with both the…

This document describes two experiments that tested male and female attitudes toward sex-typical language. In the first experiment, 119 undergraduate females were asked to read and evaluate one of two written passages where the linguistic features were manipulated to create male and female sex-typed versions. Participants were tested on their…

That the English language has changed greatly over the centuries is an accepted fact; the fact that the movement hasn't stopped should also be accepted. Examples of analogic changes which are taking place in syntax and morphology illustrate the state of flux of English. However, many teachers of English still believe that it is their duty to guard…