Examines the various aspects of natural conversation in order to provide a theoretically comprehensive schema that accounts for a conversation's structure. Aspects considered are: (1) speaker-listener initial and turn-change behavior; (2) the listener's speaker-directed behavior; (3) interlistener and simultaneous behaviors; and (4) the function…

Comments on Damon and Killen's study, pointing out that the methodological difficulties in examining spontaneous moral discussions have led to the appropriation of a dyadic social-cognitive conflict paradigm that focuses on dialogic interaction. (Author/RH)

Examines the language used to communicate Keynesian ideas and measures the progress toward effective presentation of those ideas. (HOD)

Discusses how children in one society on the Papuan Plateau, Papua, New Guinea, learn about making and responding to requests based on a strategy of appeal. (FL)

Focuses on people "having arguments" and "making arguments" in conversation. Considers (1) examples of ordinary arguments, (2) argument as the disagreement-relevant expansion of speech acts, and (3) felicity conditions and the interpretation of arguments. (PD)

Examined strategies used by infants when listener feedback indicated that their requests were not understood. Concluded that children in the early stages of language development have acquired at least rudimentary knowledge of appropriate conversational behavior. (Author/DB)

Discusses a pedagogically useful model of text structure in which text structure is mapped as a three-dimensional structure of interconnected T-units, or a discourse matrix. Illustrates and explains a sample discourse matrix and tells why matrix diagraming is more useful than other systems that represent text structure. (FL)

Reports the results of analysis of revisions in 100 randomly selected sets of 12th-grade students' essay drafts. Findings revealed that there are patterns of revising strategies among the students and that these differences are associated with the quality of their writing. (HOD)

Describes a research study in which good readers were able to predict more successfully the outcomes of both concrete and abstract stories than were poor readers. (MKM)

Examines the traditionally prestigious status of the sentence in grammatical analysis, and traces the history of the word "phrase" as a part of French grammatical language. (AM)

Discusses the relationship between linguistic analysis of a legal text and the various possible interpretations of the same text. An example is taken from civic duties ideology. (AM)

Discusses the dichotomy between legal terminology and legal discourse, and its implications for translation. (AM)

Discusses the messages found in comic strip dialogue, the correlations between the messages and the images and the semiotic value of the whole. (Text is in French.) (TL)