Contrasts the situation of the French language and of sociolinguistic research in France and in Canada. (AM)

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)

Examines the relationship of "ne" and its accompanying particles ("pas,""plus,""jamais,""personne," etc.) in the French negation system, with special reference to subject opacity. (AM)

An experiment was designed to answer the following: (1) can children as young as 2 1/2 to 3 years of age employ contextual cues in order to distinguish request from offers? and (2) do children's discrimination skills for these illocutionary acts improve with age? A model of the comprehension of illocutionary force is proposed. (Author/AM)

Argues that the fundamental word order of Mandarin Chinese is SVO (Subject-Verb-Object), and describes word order change from Old Chinese to Modern Chinese. (AM)

This article presents a method for teaching the meaning of the word "hope" to students of English as a second/foreign language. (CFM)

Discusses the noun-plus-adjective construction in contemporary German and problems in translating this pattern into English. (AM)

Reviews the grammatical, semantic, and stylistic difficulties in translating English passive constructions into French. (AM)

Examines the basic color vocabulary of modern standard French in the light of recent research on color vocabularies. In attempting to justify the two basic terms for brown, this study gives some account of the collocational factors which determine the selection of one or the other in particular contexts. (AMH)

The syntactic nonconversational features of monologue speech were analyzed in nine normal Ss (ages 2 and 3 years), three at each of R.Brown's three language developmental stages. (Author/PHR)

Semantic and phonological encoding in 48 young (18-24 years) and 48 elderly (60-77 years) adults was investigated using a short-term memory release from proactive interference paradigm. (Author/SB)

Ten older adults were involved in a photography activity once a week for six weeks, while five older adults were controls. Using pre- and post-program semantic differentials, it was found that the photography activity was associated with significant increases in positive attitudes. (Author)

Discusses the referential meanings of nouns within discourse with emphasis on their anaphoric role from one phrase to another. (Text is in French.) (TL)

As part of a search for a unified theory of attention, observers detected letters in streams of digits under conditions of divided or selective attention for a period of 10 hours. The practice effects on the detectability of targets and on the response criteria used by observers were evaluated. (Editor/RK)