Analyzes the difference between a motion and other statements connoted by the verbs "recommend,""suggest," and "order." Claims this difference is crucial to and touches on the very essentials of parliamentary law and procedure. (NH)

Assesses the unaccepted use of figurative language in science and technical writing, especially, objections to metaphor's imputed ambiguity. Proposes that metaphor play a stronger role in conceptualization of scientific and technical ideas. (MS)

Critically examines contemporary interactional studies of the cultural specificity of human language. The study is a cross-cultural analysis of misconstrued communications in human interaction, ascertaining whether these interactions are crucially dependent on nonlinguistic variables. (CB)

Reviews the variety of language styles with which the translator deals and discusses the esthetic and practical advantages of adapting the language of a text to the sociocultural and communicative habits of a specific linguistic group. (MSE)

In this paper I use situated and socio-cultural perspective (Gee, 1996 & 1999) to examine descriptions of mathematical discourse and an example of student talk in a mathematics classroom. Using this example, I discuss how the distinction between everyday and mathematical discourse can help or hinder us in hearing the mathematical content in…

Parts 1-3 appeared in "Russisch," v7 n2-4 1973. (DD)

First part of a continued article. (SK)

Meeting held in Nice, France, May 23-24, 1972. (VM)

Part 1 appeared in English Language Teaching v24 n3 May 1970 (EJ 023 138). (FB)

Argues that one's cognitive patterns "force" the nature of the subject matter one generates and imitation facilitiates the internalization of these patterns. (RD)

Proposes to establish the correct Black cultural perspective on the role and function of personal insults in sounding and the boundary between play and nonplay. Considers different cultural consequences that would stem from regarding personal insults to be part of verbal play or not, and shows similarity in the structure and function of…

Explores the possibility that the characterization of native speaker-nonnative speaker speech (NS-NNS) is too broadly conceived. Confirms earlier claims about NS-NNS interaction, but also offers evidence that the frequency of use of discourse modifications by NSs in conversation with NNSs is variable. (EKN)