Examines the mechanisms involved in changing from direct to indirect discourse, taking as a starting point research findings in linguistic pragmatics, which involve the practical application of speech symbol use between speaker and hearer. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Contends that the structure of composition is based on the principles of discourse and the forms of discourse. (DD)

This study examined how differences in communication style affect how likely particular types of messages (e.g. arguments, evidence, critiques, explanations) were able to elicit critical responses during four online debates. Event sequence analysis was used to compare the response probabilities for each type of message across messages that used…

This study examined discourse markers (DM) in Spanish that distinguished themselves by their frequency of use in dyadic interaction among young bilingual speakers in Sweden. It also established the distribution of DM in conversation. The DM were classified as initial markers (IM), corpus markers (CM), and terminal markers (TM). The study involved…

An ethnographic study examined a distinctive and recurrent form of problem solving interaction that has been previously unreported in the organizational communication and problem solving literatures--Informal Problem Solving Meetings (IPSs). The fact that participants in IPS meetings themselves neither name or ordinarily formulate Informal Problem…

How people define themselves or others as bilingual or not depends on their notions and social representations of bilingualism. Language provides different possibilities in order to make such designations: the use of lexical words (like "bilingual" in English), but also paraphrasing or other discursive strategies. This article examines…

Representations of speakers cannot be reduced to categories pre-established by the researcher, whether these correspond to the norm, theory, or common sense. The representational content is organized and works within the interview. Its analysis can allow one to trace different levels of community integration of the speakers that do not necessarily…

This paper utilizes a sociocultual perspective to argue that content literacy development and subject content learning are inseparable and that it is every classroom teacher's responsibility to support all students' academic language/literacy (LL) development needed for the learning of relevant content. Through an analysis of the New Jersey Core…

This paper describes mathematics as a social practice and bases this idea on recent developments in diverse domains of research related to mathematical cognition. In the context of theoretical development, this paper is concerned with the question originally raised by Socrates but rephrased from the perspective of social practice theory: What kind…

Discusses how the means of testing and retrieval have been allowed to become ends in themselves, rather than occasions for learning. (Author)

Research supported by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. (DD)

Special issue devoted to the study of generative grammar in German-speaking countries. (VM)