Defines personae as the imaginary and fictive being implied by and embedded in a literary or dramatic work and contends that personae are discoverable in every scientific discourse. (MH)

Narratives from part-Hawaiian children 5 to 12 years old in a variety of circumstances were collected for several years. Typical verbal routines, ways of analyzing the data, tendency of routines to structure speech events, functions of nonnarrative routines in narrative performance, and establishing a context for narration are considered. (EJS)

Describes a public address curriculum based upon a different way of conceptualizing public address. (Author)

A passage from Aristotle is discussed and interpreted. Rhetoric represents truth and justice in any situation for the auditor through the use of language. The usefulness of rhetoric lies in its ability to assure an adequate and competent articulation of truth and justice. (JF)

Supports Frederiksen's (1975) model of the structure of text and of memory through a study of the effects of manipulation of four aspects of text structure with community college and Ivy League subjects. (AA)

Report on a theory of articulation and communication of meaning, based on research by Piaget and Barbizet. Three steps are distinguished: discourse in Language X; the act of grasping the meaning outside the language of the discourse; and re-expression of the thought in Language Y. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Explores the rhetorical significance of the School Desegregation Cases, collectively known as Brown v. Board of Education. Suggests that the rhetoric of this judicial decision was and is paradigmatic of much of the rhetoric which has characterized the second half of the twentieth century. (MH)

Offers support for the contentions that the critical study of movements should be a significant unit in rhetorical study and that current instructional approaches to movement rhetoric are not satisfactory. Illustrates the nature and importance of these contentions through examination of George Count's text, Dare the Schools Build a New Social…

Offers theoretical distinctions among the terms sacred, myth, ideology, and political myth. Analyzes representative speeches and debates on imperialism in the United States and Great Britain and contends that the distinction between the two rhetorical typologies concurrently existing in each nation account for the dominance of imperialist rhetoric…

Argues that movements are a kind of ritual conflict whose most distinguishing form is confrontation. (MH)

Examines the compositional attributes which characterize Christian sermons as generically distinctive. (MH)

This monograph presents a descriptive analysis of the syntactic patterns in 16 corpora of word combinations from 11 infants learning either English (six children), Samoan, Finnish, Hebrew, or Swedish. The mean utterance lengths range up to about 1.7 morpehmes. There are both reanalyses of corpora in the literature and new corpora. The data…

Syntactic analysis identifies the "conductor wires" permitting the listener to conceptualize the speaker's image of reality from information furnished by the linguistic message. Syntactic study is thus situated in the economy of the communication process. Mood, aspect and tense are studied in this framework. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A study of the syntactic organization of discourse and an attempt to show that in all languages organization is necessary for meaningful utterances. Topics covered are: the necessity of regular predication in French; a definition of the subject-verb unity; and the non-verbal predicate. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

This study was undertaken to ascertain which types of listener feedback lead to effective communication by observing how 4-year-olds adapt their speech to a peer listener during free play. (JMB)