Explores the role of grammar in language use and its pervasive linkage with discourse analysis, reconceptualizing grammar instruction as an integral aspect of communicative methodology. Related research involving tense-aspect-modality, word-order issues, subordination and complementation, special constructions, topics and themes, and grammar…

A review of research regarding discourse analysis in stylistics and literature instruction covers studies of text, systematic analysis, meaning, style, literature pedagogy, and applied linguistics. A 10-citation annotated bibliography and a larger unannotated bibliography are included. (CB)

The way seven- and nine-year-old French children and adults interpret ambiguous object descriptions was studied in four experiments. Results of the experiment are consistent with the Gricean approach to referential communication proposed by Jackson and Jacobs (1982), and with an extended version of the principle of contrast proposed by Clark…

A case is made for the increased study of paralinguistic voice qualifiers, which include variations in breathing, laryngeal, esophageal, pharyngeal, velopharyngeal, lingual, labial, mandibular, articulatory, articulatory tension, and objectual control. It is proposed that attention to these voice qualities has a variety of practical, literary,…

Lists and discusses the most prominent forms of interlingual transfer and the subtle relationships that exist between the various types. Argues that proximity and situationality are important factors which may come to play a more prominent role in future work in translatology. (HB)

Discusses "Researching Language," a full-length study dealing with questions about power and method in a range of social science disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, and sociolinguistics. The discussion asks whether the balance of power between researchers and research subjects can be altered. (VWL)

Comments on a previous article that deals with questions on researching language, and suggests that the assumption driving the arguments contained in that article is that social scientists typically possess a power-advantage over their research subjects. It is argued that such an assumption is implausible. (VWL)

Responds to an article dealing with issues of method in researching language, and addresses the question "what is research and why are linguists doing research?" (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research. It is suggested that the research approach highlighted in the article has indisputable merit, but that the blueprint is vague and difficult to know when to put into practice. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research. It is suggested that the previous article does not succeed in bridging the gap between moral and metasocial considerations concerning the use of knowledge and similar considerations concerning mode of acquisition. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research, recognizing the admirable motives advocated in the methodology put forth in the article and suggesting the need to address additional issues. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research. It is suggested that the method of empowering research subjects can go seriously wrong and that no linguistic research can be driven by ideas of empowering or disempowering alone. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. (VWL)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research or more specifically on empowering research participants. This comment suggests that understanding research talk can be facilitated by knowing something about the larger group of speech activities of which it is but one normal representative form. (VWL)