Because of the increasing demands that today's society places on language, there is an increasing need for vocabulary building. The opening of new fields, industries, and media and the vocabularies of specialized fields have all contributed to making increased word knowledge a necessity. New words have been coined to describe developments in new…

Language is not and should not be a highly precise tool; attempts to make language, especially diction, more precise reduce its reliability. (DD)

Concludes that graffiti are based on existential chaos and freedom and that they question virtue and honor and love. (DD)

Argues that recent attacks on euphemism have been too simplistic. (DD)

Provides examples of doublespeak which show that its use has increased since the Committee on Public Doublespeak was established 14 years ago. Points out that English teachers must teach respect for and love of language to instill in students a sense of outrage when they encounter doublespeak. (ARH)

Emphasizing the linguistic nature of instruction and the importance of labeling, this article identifies seven starting points for creating a classroom language of cognition: (1) using precise vocabulary; (2) posing critical questions; (3) providing data, not solutions; (4) giving directions; (5) probing for specificity; (6) modeling metacognitive…

In a study of differences between perceptions of men's and women's language, undergraduates read short stories with speakers using seven categories of "male" and "female" language. Among the findings were that subjects rated males who spoke women's language as homosexual and tended to rate females who spoke men's language as uppity. (KH)

The presence of many languages in our society and our classrooms has implications for conducting research, both in terms of the validity of the research and the broader social responsibilities of the mathematics education research community. This paper argues that in some ways mathematics education research causes or reproduces the educational and…

Although it is difficult to write well even in one language, a rich body of translingual literature--by authors who write in more than one language or in a language other than their primary one--exists. This book is a study of the phenomenon, which is as ancient as the use of Arabic, Latin, Mandarin, Persian, and Sanskrit as "lingua…

The Holocaust is a powerful topic for writing classrooms because it elicits strong emotions from most students at the same time that it is remote enough to keep from overwhelming them (at least at first). At the same time the topic presents a minefield for the unwary or naive writing instructor--it is important, for example, to emphasize the…

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New York, New York, March 29, 1972. (DS)

Presidential address delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the Modern Language Association of Great Britain held January 2, 1973, the University of Surrey, Guildford, England. (DS)

Revised version of a paper read at the December 29, 1971, American Classical League Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. (DS)

Article discusses native language instruction for Spanish speaking adults in this country. (MM)

Believes that by adequately expressing our depths of feeling through language we may come to understand ourselves better. (SW)