Article discusses Albert Upton's concepts in Creative Analysis, a major emphasis in creative studies at State University College at Buffalo. (Author)

Author defines the nature of the crisis in language; relates this crisis to a similar one in the life of an earlier civilization; and advances suggestions how present difficulties can be faced. (CB)

The development of the Vienna Circle is traced, and Schlick's philosophy of nature, his ethical theory, his views on education, and his contribution to unity in philosophy are discussed. (DB)

From an anthropological viewpoint, the author examines the relationship of modern-day youth with his "multidimensional world, whose components are science, creation, knowledge, language, society, power and man. (LC)

Author discusses the use of taboo or so-called obscene words in society and in the classroom. Encourages a discussion of the use and meaning of obscenity between teacher and students. (DR)

The relevancy of standard versus nonstandard speech and language patterns is examined relative to its impact upon academic training of speech clinicians and upon clinical competencies. (Author)

Maintains that we are contained in boxes-- classifications of language,. . . pigeonholes in which we neatly file reality." (Author/RD)

Finds confirmation of the humanizing influence of language in anthropological and linguistic studies, in creation myths, and in the lives of individuals such as Anne Frank and Helen Keller. Sees in George Orwell's "1984" and Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" examples of the dehumanization created by empty or deceptive…

Asserts that feminist thinkers must self-consciously and critically confront various traditions of political discourse, feminist and nonfeminist. Reviews a number of these traditions and examines several modes that seem promising for the creation of a feminist discourse that rejects domination. (Author/GC)

Reviews the theories of the founder of "general semantics," Alfred Korzybski, who believed that social conflict would be reduced by the study of how the structure of language affects our perceptions of the world and by the development of new language habits to overcome the limitations of verbal symbols. (Editor/SJL)

Within the bilingual education movement there is an analysis of the situation regarding "assimilation" and "cultural pluralism" in the U.S. that is a threat to bilingual education. Many assume that a new social situation has asserted itself whereby "cultural pluralism" has become a more powerful value than…

States that how discourse plays a central role in social relations/power dynamics is better understood because of M. Foucault's insights on power--central to Foucault's theory concerning the power-knowledge-discourse dialectic is that for every force there is resistance. Offers a new genealogy, which better suggests how resistance might appear in…