The purposes of this study were to determine what specific types of criticism students perceive as being most helpful, whether student perceptions of helpfulness in different types of criticism vary according to individual levels of speech anxiety or exhibitionism, and whether student perceptions of helpfulness in different types of criticism vary…

The notions of recursiveness and deletion are discussed in the context of Chomsky's presentations of transformational grammar in "Syntactic Structures" and in the later work, "Aspects of the Theory of Syntax." After consideration of word-recursion, coordinate-clause recursion, and subordinate-clause recursion, extensions to…

Discusses a study of five hundred and eleven intimate relationships and notes particular consistencies in these relationships which appear to represent intimacy as a type of rhetorical situation. (MH)

Lenny Bruce's contribution was to broaden the range of material publicly accepted as humorous. (JH)

This article proposes a new analysis of illocutionary force, in terms of discourse practices, and specifically analyzes the act of reproaching. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Examines the way in which Darwin employed conventional language and conventional religious categories of popular thought to explain and lend credibility to the ideas he advanced in "The Orgin of Species." (MH)

Traces the development of discourse analysis in modern linguistics, and presents a semantic analysis, based on a comparative word frequency count, of two political speeches made by the socialist Jean Jaures. (AM)

Discusses the relationship between subject and predicate, using examples from various languages; demonstrates the inadequacy of a universal view of the notion of "subject"; and presents a diachronic hypothesis concerning the subject-theme dialectic. (AM)

Debate is compared to modern poetry in its tension between content and form. From the perspective of this comparison, debate is defended against charges that it is unnecessarily structured, a distortion of normative language use, uncommunicative, and pertinent only to an esoteric group of listeners. (JF)

Examines former President Ford's consistent use of the war metaphor in an attempt to explain the domestic problem of inflation and posits various reasons for the war metaphor's failure to be accepted by the American public. (MH)

Contends that investigation of the past may contribute to a generic understanding of labor rhetoric and examines the rhetorical dimensions of the 1972 election contest for the leadership of the United Mine Workers. (MH)

Develops a concept of "Rhetoric of Encounter" and operationally defines the concept for use in content analysis research. Employs this concept in a case study of the student newspaper, administration public relations publication, and faculty senate proceedings of Kent State University. (MH)

A resume of an interview between the authors and Andre Martinet on the book "Les reflexes linguistiques." The topics discussed are: rambling discourse, the necessity of unifying efforts of specialists in human sciences, and consideration of human communication processes from the physiological point of view. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Explores and reassesses the efficacy of the forensic strategies and tactics used by John Adams in the defense of the soldiers in the Boston Massacre. (MH)