The article is an exploration of online reading from the perspective of theories of reading and interpretation based on literary theory and the phenomenology of reading literary text. One of its aims is to show that such theories can make a contribution to our understanding of reading and to our design of online reading spaces. The precursor of…

Provides a portrait of the structure of the categories and tests the correlation between family resemblance and prototypicality of items. (Author)

Deals with the place of semantics within the field of linguistics and suggests that semantics has gained in importance again over American linguistics, which has been concerned with form rather than content. (Author/KM)

Reviews the glossematic theory of linguistic oppositions and suggests a reformulation of the theory in terms of a proposed differentiation theory. (CK)

This brief note attempts to clarify an issue recently raised by Smith, Shoben, and Rips concerning network versus set-theoretic models of semantic memory. (Editor)

This article stresses the need to use words in relationship to reality and to make language a means of communication rather than a means of deception. (PD)

Goffman's indirect method and a MeSH tree structure were used to classify a set of 109 medical documents. (PF)

This monograph discusses prejudice which exists when humans evaluate others. No one sees or hears a man evaluating. One hears or sees only what he says and does. An arbitrary sampling of recent research studies which indicate some of the varieties of mis-evaluation are cited. They reveal that sometimes people show antipathy to people they do not…

This paper discusses a problem in semantic analysis of modern standard Thai. The synchronically polysememic morpheme /cay/ has meanings approximately equivalent to English "heart, mind, spirit" and "breath." A purely descriptive approach to this form would require two separate dictionary entries for /cay/. An examination of the…

It was anticipated that the single-word free association responses to sentences varying in degree of semantic integration (as indexed by sentence norms) would differ quantitatively. One group of 60 undergraduates was given a list of 16 sentences characterized by high semantic integration (HSI), while another group of 60 undergraduates received a…

Forty-four undergraduates were assigned to two groups of 22 subjects each. The high association (HA) group was given booklets that contained a series of associatively related (free association norms) contrastive adjectives, one pair to a page, while the low association (LA) group was given booklets containing pairs of associatively unrelated…