Considers the various usages of 'interesting' in English as a problem confronted by non-native English speakers learning the language. (LG)

The study of literature such as Orwell's works will not solve issues in contemporary culture and thought, but it can help one detect abstract language in the discussion and formulation of issues.

Article attempted to define the metaphor and listed some of the main kinds of metaphor. (Author/RK)

Author discussed dictionaries in the classroom and their value to students as well as teachers. (Author/RK)

Suggests that understanding your semantic environment begins with recognizing you have no choice about being the center of your universe, that the feelings you have are the single most important part of your life, and that it is about your feelings that you speak, despite whatever else you may think you speak about. (TO)

Article investigated some assumptions underlying most of the speculation, theory, and experimentation in the search to define creativity. (Author/RK)

Analyzes three examples of teacher language to determine what effects language has on pupil learning. (RB)

Argues that designers must learn to use language to communicate ideas instead of sell products in consumer oriented western societies. (RB)

Describes the role of the semantic therapist in correcting language distortions due to lack of specificity, inaccurate assumptions, and failure to ascribe accurately the characteristics of a person. (RB)

This paper argues that the jargon, or jabberwocky, prevalent in education from the universities on down, is the same kind of political lying found in government, and for the same purposes. (Editor)

Discusses ways of addressing superiors, inferiors and peers in a war zone setting, Vietnam 1965-70. Charts are given of address forms for enlisted men and non-commissioned officers. Also discussed are addresses during action. Degrees of intimacy for various titles are explained. (SC)

Discusses syntax and the use of syntagma in English poetry. (CK)

In order to clarify and define the subject matter of argumentation, this paper examines the two senses of argument identified by D. J. O'Keefe and then proposes a third sense of argument as another legitimate perspective in argumentation. As discussed in the paper, O'Keefe's two senses of argument are a thing people make and a kind of interaction…

This paper examines Saint Augustine's obscurantist preferences in popular preaching (as distinguished from his episcopal instructions to other clergy) as a way of identifying one of the classical influences on Christian rhetorical strategy. The first section of the paper offers a comparison of Augustine's theoretical approval of homiletic…