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DE FRANCIS, JOHN; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE THIRD IN A SERIES OF TEXTS PREPARED AT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY, THIS ADVANCED TEXT PRESUPPOSES MASTERY OF "BEGINNING CHINESE,""BEGINNING CHINESE READER," AND LESSONS 1 TO 6 OF "INTERMEDIATE CHINESE READER." A COMPANION VOLUME TO THIS ONE, "CHARACTER TEXT FOR ADVANCED CHINESE," PROVIDES READING PRACTICE AND…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Cultural Background
DE FRANCIS, JOHN – 1966
THIS CHARACTER VERSION OF "ADVANCED CHINESE" CAN BE STUDIED FOR READING PURPOSES AT THE SAME TIME THAT THE TRANSCRIPTION VERSION IS STUDIED FOR SPEAKING PURPOSES. THERE ARE 904 NEW CHARACTERS INTRODUCED HERE AMONG THE 150,000 CHARACTERS OF RUNNING TEXT. IT IS ASSUMED THAT THE STUDENT HAS MASTERED THE BEGINNING AND ADVANCED CHINESE TEXTS…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Cultural Background
PDF pending restorationBARTON, DONALD K.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THIS IS THE FIRST OF A THREE-VOLUME, NINE-UNIT COURSE IN BASIC AMHARIC. VOLUME ONE TOGETHER WITH VOLUME TWO (UNITS IV-VIII OR LESSONS 16-35) DEAL WITH THE PROBLEMS OF PRONUNCIATION AND THE ORAL-AURAL MASTERY OF BASIC GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTIONS. EACH LESSON INCLUDES A DIALOG, GRAMMATICAL NOTES, PATTERN DRILLS, EXERCISES, AND A VOCABULARY LIST. AT…
Descriptors: Amharic, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Instruction
PDF pending restorationBARTON, DONALD K.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THIS IS THE SECOND OF A THREE-VOLUME COURSE IN BASIC AMHARIC. FOLLOWING THE SAME FORMAT AS THE FIRST VOLUME, EACH LESSON IN UNITS IV-VII CONTAINS A DIALOG, GRAMMATICAL NOTES, PATTERN DRILLS, EXERCISES, AND A VOCABULARY LIST. ENGLISH-AMHARIC AND AMHARIC-ENGLISH GLOSSARIES ARE APPENDED. THIS COURSE WILL PREPARE THE STUDENT TO PERFORM AT A…
Descriptors: Amharic, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Instruction
Kevelson, Roberta – 1980
The first part of this essay argues specifically that legal speech acts are not statements but question/answer constructions. The focus in this section is on the underlying interrogative structure of the legal decision. The second part of the paper touches on significant topics related to the concept of legal speech acts, including the philosophic…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Court Litigation, Higher Education, Language Patterns
Drake, Harold L. – 1980
This paper reports the personal experiences of a Fulbright scholar working in the Egyptian government's Cairo broadcast facility, offering an inside understanding of some of the broadcasting procedures used by Egyptian mass media. Besides descriptions of the broadcasting procedures at Cairo Radio, the paper contains notes on announcers' training…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Language Styles
Download full textIran-Nejad, Asghar; And Others – 1980
The results of two experiments on understanding metaphors were found to be incompatible with the popular view that deaf children have particular problems in understanding metaphorical uses of natural language. Profoundly deaf children were presented with several short stories and were instructed to select (from a set of four alternatives) the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition
Sacco, Jodee – 1980
A survey of 210 professional communicators measured their sensitivity to the problem of readability, especially as it has been treated in the plain English movement (the drive to improve written materials and to make the unreadable readable). The results of the survey showed that 23% of the communicators rated the plain language concept…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Communication Problems, Language Styles
Idioms and Metaphors: Vividness and Sex-Specificity as Related to Usage by Male and Female Speakers.
Russo, Lisa L. – 1977
An experiment was conducted to investigate the hypothesis that English cliches reflect sex-specific styles of speech and that sex-specificity of expressions is related to differential usage by male and female speakers. Hypotheses were derived from Tyler's claims that the "neutral sphere" is infused by the male style, rendering it an inhibiting…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Females, Idioms, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedAnderson, Tommy R. – TESOL Quarterly, 1968
The initial stage of second language learning usually aims to develop the ability to converse. This conversational ability is, however, rarely the ultimate object of second language instruction. The student may want access to the literature of the culture of the second language, or to get an education in it. For these reasons, interest shifts…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, English, Language Instruction, Language Patterns
Van Buren, H. – Topics in Culture Learning, 1974
Americans tend to derive nicknames and more intimate affectionate nicknames from a person's formal first name; the type of name used depends on the social situation and the relationship between the two people. In many cases, for both masculine and feminine names, the nickname is derived from the first (or sometimes the second) syllable of the…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Language Patterns, Language Styles
Carney, Clinton C., Jr. – 1974
This guide was designed to provide both the occasional and the professional bilingual Spanish-English translator with some working definitions based on modern linguistics and to call his or her attention to certain difficulties in translating. Sections on the following are included: (1) context sensitivity, (2) frequency matching, (3) style…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Dialects, English
Gregores, Emma; Suarez, Jorge A. – 1967
The purpose of this book is to describe the phonological and grammatical structures of modern Guarani, as it is spoken today in Asuncion and neighboring regions of Paraguay. An introductory section considers the linguistic classification of Guarani, gives some background on its speakers, and discusses the sources used for this study. Part I,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Guarani, Language Styles, Morphology (Languages)
Wachal, Robert S.; Spreen, Otfried – 1970
A system of 20 Fortran and PL/1 programs, developed for an analysis of aphasic and normal speech transcripts, is described in detail. The programs aid in lexical, grammatical, paralinguistic and statistical analyses, as well as in data preparation and correction. They can also be used in schizophrenic and other kinds of pathological language and…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Computational Linguistics, Grammar, Language Styles
Wolfram, Walt – 1973
One of the most significant problems that linguists face in their attempts to describe Vernacular Black English (VBE) is the matter of fluctuating forms. It is consistently observed that speakers appear to fluctuate between a socially stigmatized variant and its presumed nonstigmatized counterpart. Fluctuations in VBE have often been viewed as a…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, English
