Defends the role of humanities instruction in the education of engineering undergraduates in the areas of problem solving, risk taking, and the synthesis of metaphors and symbols. (AEA)

The "effectiveness" of a single rhetorical strategy in a speech delivered by the Iroquois spokesman, Kiotsaeton, is studied. This example of verbal art was presented at Three Rivers, Quebec, on July 12, 1645, long before the Iroquois Confederacy became subject to, or influenced by, White culture. (Author)

Presents the formula for writing poetry as containing three elements: the content of the poet's mind; the poetic medium--language; and the creative spark that fuses experience and language, or content and medium, into poetry. (MM)

Identifies four strategies used to communicate experiences that are beyond expression: silence, qualified expression, poetic expression, and antiexpression. Maintains that, although these strategies violate normal expectations of efficient message transactions, they occasionally succeed remarkably in communicating understanding and thus present a…

Reports on a study investigating the nature of metaphoric language in children's usage, specifically examining the unconventional word uses of one child between the ages of two years, three months, and four years, ten months. (Author/AM)

Two experiments examined the nature of access, storage, and comprehension of idiomatic phrases, using a phrase classification task. Results support a lexical representation hypothesis for the processing of idioms. (Author/AM)

Tested seventh grade students to determine whether the inclusion of figurative language in reading material aided or hindered student comprehension. (HOD)

Building on the idea that "discourse does ideological work" (Wodak, 1996), this article examines how school leaders use metaphors that convey as well as construct concepts of diversity, intergroup relations, and equity. The author draws on data from interviews with school leaders in the United States who were focusing on improving race…

Performance theorist Herbert Blau's "The Audience" (Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins Press, 1990) is an important yet neglected theoretical text on theatre audience. Deconstructive, dense and allusive in nature, Blau's text creates a real challenge for his reader. This paper presents a study of "The Audience" employing what I am calling…

In this article, the author provides an overview of the roles and attributes of emancipatory adult educators. He presents a review of the literature that discusses the inherent characteristics of storytelling that facilitate or inhibit learning and social change. The author describes the study's methodology. Brief portraits illustrate the social…

How do we teach and learn, knowing that adults are complex, connected individuals who want to change but also want to maintain continuity of the Self? (Contains 1 figure.)