Dialogue, unlike monologue, contains large amounts of abbreviated speech, some of it conscious economy, some accidental, some psychologically motivated, and some systematic elimination of syntactically necessary elements (ellipsis). Various categories of ellipsis are analyzed, using television plays as material. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The status of the literature pertaining to Chicano politics is discussed. The articles contained in this issue of "AZTLAN" are briefly reviewed. (NQ)

Analysis of photographs in the Los Angeles "Times" and the Washington "Post" shows men appeared more often than women, except for the lifestyle sections. (RB)

Bloomington, Indiana citizens and 19 members of the editorial staff of the "Herald-Telephone" were surveyed to determine whether the audience for news had the same notion of news value as those who decide what news will be available on any given day. The respondents were asked to list the events most important to them in 1981, on the…

During the past decade states in the southern United States have produced an increasing percentage of the nation's "city" magazines. Three magazines illustrate what the southern metropolitan magazines are doing to serve their readers and their communities. "Southern Living" provides information about its readers' interests as…

Using a critical approach to television viewing that considers the literary and rhetorical impact of the program examined, this paper analyzes an episode of the family television drama, "Little House on the Prairie." The paper examines the episode's plot, characters, themes, production techniques, sound elements, tone, method of story…

This paper discusses generally Neil Simon's plays; specifically examines "God's Favorite,""Plaza Suite,""Barefoot in The Park,""Star Spangled Girl,""Come Blow Your Horn," and "Last of the Red Hot Lovers"; and quotes reviews of the plays. An examination of the composition of the plays…

This report, a supplement to Technical Report Number 82, is designed to aid the researcher concerned with concept learning. It contains: (1) a rationale and strategy for compiling a bibliography of articles concerned with concept learning; (2) a definition of the word concept; (3) a system for classifying articles by their content; (4) a…

This report describes current research associated with the Automated Language Analysis Project at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The focus of the research is upon the delineation of patterns formed in the linguistic coding of information; this delineation is called stylistic analysis. The report describes research on thesauri,…

The purpose of this study was to identify unique contributions of bibliographies in closely related subject areas that were assembled for different purposes, by analyzing random samples from the TRDPR Literature Search in Reading and the ERIC/CRIER bibliography, "Recent Research in Reading." Findings are that in bibliographies of less…

This paper is a report of two studies which were conducted on children's television. The first, "Saturday Children's Television," is a content analysis of programming and advertising matter on four Boston commercial TV stations. The second, "Romper Room, An Analysis," focuses on that program's commercial practices. The first…

This study delineates the structure of the educational journal literature, and its relationship to surrounding psychological journals. Citations amongst 140 heavily cited, widely circulating journals were used to define the interrelationships between the journals, and by inference between the research areas they represent. All education journals…

This monograph is written primarily for the researcher. It reviews a number of attempts to measure appreciation of literature. The measurements are grouped in two categories: (1) discrimination among poems or prose extracts, and (2) content analysis. Following the review is an evaluation of the limitations and possibilities of these measures. The…

A study of newspapers in three Louisiana cities suggests that whether a city's newspapers are owned jointly or by separate owners, little duplication occurs in newspaper appearance or content. (GW)

Recent mathematical descriptions of Bradford's distribution, and a new formulation that provides a more accurate estimation of the total number of papers and sources on a given scientific subject are presented. (Author/MBR)