Discusses a critical approach for dealing with passages of superior literary merit in otherwise mediocre works and with shifts in the nature of languages" employed within a given work. (RD)

Addresses the relevance of a functional approach to the study of speech genres. Discusses the variation factors that can explain and partly predict spontaneous performances of a traditional genre of Samoan speechmaking. (EKN)

Examines the language used to communicate Keynesian ideas and measures the progress toward effective presentation of those ideas. (HOD)

Uses trademarks that are calculated misspellings, bumper sticker slogans, the strained and pretentious language of Howard Cosell, and governmental jargon to illustrate how to attune students to the magic and power of language, while poking fun at language abuse. (RL)

This paper explores the view that poetry is a cognitive activity whose object of knowing is our affective life. It is argued that the devices used in poetry, being modifications of ordinary language, determine the sorts of things knowable. Three devices are discussed in detail: imagery, heightened language, and ambiguity. (Author/SJL)

It is suggested that in French foreign language instruction, especially in Canada, four language levels be distinguished: scholarly, neutral, familiar, and popular. Instruction based on these distinctions will encourage more realistic use of language skills. (MSE)

Students judged abortion statements on response scales which were evaluatively congruent or incongruent with subject attitude. Interaction among attitude, statement favorability, and congruency of the response scale suggests, that evaluative implications of the response language serve as a discriminitive cue leading to polarized judgments. (Author)

Analyzes the uses of "quien" as an interrogative and a relative pronoun with numerous examples from standard spoken Spanish. Emphasizes syntactic and contextual factors, as well as stylistic variations, and explains the contrast between "quien" and "que" as subjects of a relative clause. (MES)

Considers the preeminence of form and function over content in composition. Notes the effects of this perspective on teaching English, especially written English. (RL)

Examines the linguistic, rhetorical, and philosophical implications of a theory of style. (DD)

Discusses some problems involved in translating Quebec legal texts, and proposes a method to overcome these difficulties. (AM)

Discusses the importance of the following factors in translation: (1) embedded communication events; (2) the circumstances of the production of a text; (3) the response of receptors to a text; (4) the translator's role in producing a translation; and (5) the response of receptors to a translation. (AM)

Discusses the messages found in comic strip dialogue, the correlations between the messages and the images and the semiotic value of the whole. (Text is in French.) (TL)

This article constitutes an introductory handbook to translation. Translation methods are of the communicative and semantic types, or, other types such as formal, interlinear, or stylistic. Principles include problems of meaning, interpretation, text quality, use of standardized and nonstandard languages. Procedures include comprehension and…