"Traditional (language instruction): treats words separate from their context; linguistic (language instruction): treats words according to their context in the sentence." (Author/CH)

Students viewed tapes of males and females using sex appropriate and sex inappropriate language features. Regardless of the communicator's sex, the students perceived communicators who used "female" language as being more credible, and those who used "male" language as being more extroverted, active, and confident. (Author/MJL)

Argues that the application of a linguistic framework to the study of literature provides a vocabulary with which certain features may be discussed, may communicate certain aspects of literary language to students, and offers a new venture to the study of literature. (HOD)

Examines whether linguistic clues of social status can be detected and are significant across cultures. (EKN)

Reports a study in which university students and older nonstudents rated video transcripts of beginning public speaking students' first in-class speech for socio-intellectual status, aesthetic quality, and dynamism. On the basis of language, female speakers were rated higher on socio-intellectual status and aesthetic quality; males scored higher…

Analyzes the language and rhetoric of persuasive discourse as employed in advertising. Uses a selection of bank advertisements as a corpus, identifying and discussing four basic models of discourse. The discussion focuses on the rhetorical devices that characterize each type of text. (MES)

Instead of approaching writing form as a quality essential to the finished product, it may be useful to discuss it--at least initially in the writing process--as something that emerges during writing and that can be refined during the last editing stages of the process. (HOD)

Examines several theoretical differences in spoken and written communication and presents a few specific forms that improve the quality of writing. (HOD)

In an analysis of exemplary protocols in a revised manual for the paragraph completion method, relations between conceptual level and linguistic measures yielded by the computer assisted language analysis system were examined. Frequency of usage and structural complexity accounted for much of the variance in conceptual level scores. (Author)

Considers the reasons for making the rhetorical choices that constitute a writer's "voice." Examines teaching models that help students learn how to influence meaning through the rhetorical choices they make. (RL)

Provides observations about the errors that beginning journalists make. Offers suggestions for helping beginning journalists to improve their writing skills. (RL)

There were no significant differences in the way explicit and implicit counselors were perceived. Subjects preferred seeing counselors with whom they agreed on the values issue. Subjects hearing the explicit counselor value statement rated the counselor as more trustworthy when they agreed with her values. (Author)

Revealed a statistically significant difference between alcoholic and nonalcoholic oral syntactic performance, with alcoholic subjects committing greater numbers of syntactic and semantic errors than nonalcoholics. Indicated a deficiency in the integrative and descriptive aspects of alcoholics' oral language performance. (RL)

Presents evidence of a correspondence between the political perspective a speaker advocates and the types of rhetorical strategies the speaker employs. The rhetoric of radicals, liberals, and conservatives indicates that the political ideas these three groups of speakers share are reflected in consistent stylistic and argumentative strategies.…

Drawings and writings of two children produced for each year from age four to eight were presented to "experts" in the field of style to see if they could determine which student did each picture or paragraph, based on stylistic consistencies. Concludes that style is inherent in a child's first compositions. (HTH)