When a writer quotes from or paraphrases someone else's text he or she is performing--consciously or unconsciously--a political act, situating him/herself somewhere between personal authority and other, sometimes alien authorities. Rather than being encouraged to examine their attitude toward the use of sources, students are too often taught that…

Shows the importance and spread of Spanish as a world language by surveying the countries in which it is the official language and listing many instances in which Spanish has been chosen as the means of communication throughout history. (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)

This simulation focuses on one of the social and psychological difficulties inherent in the assimilation process, the language barrier. (Author/KM)

A study of word associations in normal and disturbed children integrated two methods of word association research: pathological features of adult schizophrenic language and psycholinguistic features of developmental changes in children's associations. (Author/KM)

A test of linguistic attitudes toward varied dialect patterns. (CH)

Discusses the stratification and specialization of common language into sublanguages for various spheres of activity and the introduction of the sublanguages into different language boundaries. (CK)

It is proposed that middle- and upper-middle-class slang used among white young people in modern America shows age-related themes. For youngsters between the ages of eight and early adolescence, the major theme in slang use is to establish in-group and out-group membership, with standards of judgment based on clothes, manners, and physical appeal.…

Vygotsky's views on how language is instrumental in bringing about advanced forms of intellectual functioning offer a researchable framework from which to study this development. Developmentalists in psychology and linguistics have focused for too long on continuities rather than on the process of change in mental growth. The study of the…

The major purpose of the study is an attempt to clarify some of the issues involved in the theoretical controversy that exists between Piagetian and American-Soviet positions. (Author)

Examines the relationship between speaker and hearer in linguistic communication. (LG)

THE AUTHOR POINTS OUT THE PROBLEMS INHERENT IN USING ENGLISH AS AN INTER-ETHNIC MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION AND INSTRUCTION IN THE PHILIPPINES AND THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES THROUGHOUT ASIA. UNESCO'S PROJECTION OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA ANTICIPATES A STEADY AND FIRM EMPHASIS ON NATIONAL LANGUAGES, WITH SECONDARY INTERESTS IN THE WORLD LANGUAGE (THIS…

The concept of private languages holds that each person's words are symbols with which he identifies certain of his perceptions. Language operates in the public sphere only so long as the symbols used by a speaker to denote his perceptions roughly correspond to the symbols the listener uses for his perceptions. The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein…

The situation in the U.S. is different from that in England, France and other European countries: in each of those countries there is something that is known as the standard language, and a number of dialects apart from the standard language. There is also a rather close consensus on what the standard dialect is (especially on phonological lines).…

In this report on cognitive processes, a discussion of the rationale and assumptions used by investigators explains the experimental procedures. To determine actual cognitive problem-solving processes, (rather than inferring them from results), subjects in these studies were presented with a problem and allowed to ask a sequence of questions which…