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Direct linkCheng, An – English for Specific Purposes, 2008
The interaction between learner characteristics, including learners' histories and goals of learning, and learners' analysis and production of target genres remains a topic of continuing interest in the genre-based literacy framework. This case study documented an L2 graduate student's individualized engagement with genre in both her reading and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Familiarity, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning
Gratier, Maya; Greenfield, Patricia M.; Isaac, Adrienne – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2009
This article examines the effect of a teacher's cultural representations and tacit communicative style on interactive practices in the classroom. We compare two second-grade classrooms constituted predominantly by Latino immigrant children and teachers with differing cultural representations of education. Through video and acoustic analyses of…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Conflict
Watson, Robert A. – Independent School Bulletin, 1975
Author reacted sharply against language that obscures meaning, dulls our senses, and corrupts our thought. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Language Styles, Language Usage, Private Schools
Raine, Craig – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1975
Author focused on invented languages in literature. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Styles, Language Usage, Standard Spoken Usage
Mimin, Pierre – Meta, 1974
Lists certain differences in structure and vocabulary between the French of Canada and that of France. (Text is in French.) (PP)
Descriptors: English, French, Language Styles, Morphology (Languages)
Ure, Jean N. – Engl Lang Teaching, 1969
Descriptors: Language Styles, Speech Communication, Spontaneous Behavior, Written Language
Welle, Dorothy W.; Farber, Frances D. – 1981
The regulations that emerge from governmental departments have been framed in legal language by lawyers to withstand onslaught in case by case determinations. From a judicial context, lawyers may rightfully contend that the concepts of the law are bound up in legal terms, and therefore the technical language of the profession should remain…
Descriptors: Consumer Protection, Language Styles, Readability, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedMacNeil, Robert – English Journal, 1988
Notes an absence of pleasure about and use of the English language, explained by: (1) the thriving industry of "put down" that makes people feel insecure about language; and (2) failure to appreciate simple, direct, pleasantly cadenced English. Encourages listening to the language to reawaken pleasure in it. (SR)
Descriptors: English, Language Attitudes, Language Styles, Listening
Eckert, Penelope, Ed.; Rickford, John R., Ed. – 2001
This collection of papers by leading experts from a range of disciplines is divided into four sections. Section 1, "Anthropological Approaches," includes: (1) "'Style' as Distinctiveness: The Culture and Ideology of Linguistic Differentiation" (Judith T. Irvine); (2) "Variety, Style-Shifting, and Ideology" (Susan…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Audiences, Language Styles, Sociolinguistics
Peer reviewedMcEwen, William J.; Greenberg, Bradley S. – Journal of Communication, 1970
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Hypothesis Testing, Language Styles, Verbal Stimuli
Mininni, Guiseppe – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1990
Discusses the dynamics of human interaction as manifested through the confines of the talk-show, and explores how the talk-show medium defines and manipulates the language "event" (communicative activity) through its own set of paralinguistic rules and theatrical techniques. (WS)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Interaction, Language Styles, Paralinguistics
Peer reviewedMarcato, Carla – Italica, 1997
Describes and analyzes the language of young people in Italy today. Particular focus is on the expressions using "para" (e.g., "in para totale" = to be very bored or worried) and the phrase "una cosa da panico" (something terrible or its opposite something wonderful). (CFM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Italian, Language Styles
Peer reviewedLee, David Y. W. – Language Learning & Technology, 2001
Clarifies the confusing terms "genre,""text type,""domain,""sublanguage," and "style" in an attempt to help individuals navigate the British National Corpus. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Databases, Definitions, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedAston, Guy – Language Learning & Technology, 2001
Responds to an earlier article that sought to clarify the terms "genre,""text type,""domain,""sublanguage," and "style" in an attempt to help individuals navigate the British National Corpus. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Databases, Definitions, Foreign Countries
Burns, Annabel; Radford, Julie – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2008
This paper uses a conversation analysis (CA) approach to explore parent-child interaction (PCI) within Nigerian families. We illustrate how speech and language therapists (SLTs), by using CA, can tailor recommendations according to the interactional style of each individual family that are consonant with the family's cultural beliefs. Three…
Descriptors: Semantics, Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
