This is a discussion of the future of translation as a profession. The following are discussed: the quantitative growth of translation; the growth of translation as a technical profession; the influence of this growth on the future of translation training; the influence of translation on Canadian French; machine translation; and the future role of…

Those who direct educational systems and institutions are losing public credibility. To reverse this trend educational planners must involve the public in educational decision-making. They can do this through the design and development of cooperative procedures for planning changes in education. (Author)

Bargaining is a political as well as an economic process and comparisons between districts are the keys to the politics of bargaining. (Author/IRT)

The books, newspaper columns, articles, and speeches of Walter Lippmann were analyzed to determine the journalist's First Amendment viewpoints in four periods when national security was an issue in the United States. These periods were (1) after World War I, (2) after the Korean War, (3) during World War II, and (4) during the war in Vietnam. The…

In the 20 months that Isabel Peron served as the first female chief of state of a South American country, the mass media in Argentina underwent extreme stress. The Montoneros, a militant leftist organization, called for mass demonstrations against the orthodox Peronist people in their tabloid "La Causa Peronista." The tabloid's…

Noting that language and politics both grow out of the underlying processes of social agreement and dispute, this paper analyzes the political language of the New Christian Right (NCR) movement as it is found in the national print media. Various sections of the paper discuss the following: (1) the background of the NCR, the characteristics of the…

This paper discusses the impact of voter tax limitation initiatives in California on public postsecondary recurrent (or continuing) education efforts. The author provides background information on the structure and scope of California's postsecondary system and then describes the development of recurrent education programs within this system. The…

The higher education lobby has been severely criticized for its aloofness toward politics. In the past, vigorous lobbying was less necessary, but sustained representation in the political sphere is now vital to the future of higher education. Although the education lobby failed to promote its interests concerning the Education Amendments of 1972,…

A public once trusting of business and business values has turned skeptical and hostile, resulting in legislation designed to make business responsible for making more than a profit while delivering an increasing standard of living that poses no threats to life. Traditional institutional advertising became irrelevant as the positive public…

Rural mainland China has undergone dramatic changes since the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949. The collectivization of agriculture basically altered the rural arrangement of conventional China. Using a series of mass media campaigns, Mao Tse-Tung to some extent transformed the traditional rural social system to what he envisioned as…

This essay takes up two separate but related issues: how the courts have resolved disputes over race and schooling and how they should resolve such disputes. This essay is in reply to a related essay, in which another author identified the consequences of what he perceived as a minimalist judicial role and called for greater exercise of…

This study measures changes over nearly thirty years in the amount of aid provided by state governments to public libraries and the relationship of these changes to the party in power. Aid is examined at two levels: the first views the party in power at the inception of state aid the second notes the party when a significant increase is made in…

The characteristics of demagogic discourse and a methodology appropriate for its analysis can be illustrated by examining Huey Long's "Every Man a King" radio address on February 20, 1934. The demagogue is similar to the revered public figure in that both are mass leaders, charismatic, and heroic. But the demagogue elicits powerful…

This article examines the formulation and implementation of language policy and the relationship between language rights and nationality rights in Yugoslavia. The distinction between formulation and implementation is affected by the hierarchical and decentralized politico-administrative system. Policy formulated in its most general form at the…

This dissertation traces the history of day care licensing standards in Texas from the beginnings in voluntary welfare organizations to the 1976 revisions. Chapter I gives an overview of the study. The beginnings and subsequent development of day care as it emerged from a multiplicity of child welfare and education concerns is traced in Chapter…