Uses conversation analysis to investigate reported speech in talk-in-interaction. Beginning with an examination of direct and indirect reported speech, the article highlights some of the design features of the former, and the sequential environments in which it occurs. (Author/VWL)

This article argues that professional discourses align themselves with dominant ideological and social forces by means of language. Examines how professional discourses, which are foundational for library and information science theory and practice, establish themselves in culture and project history, past and future, by means of appropriating…

Contends that critical audience research has resisted "scientific" discourses that appear positivist. States that recent research begins to show the same errors as earlier positivist style--re-emergence of debates on political economy and cultural imperialism are aimed at overturning what are seen as orthodoxies of opposition and…

Discusses challenges and consequences of being a member of two historically oppressed groups in the United States--Blacks and females. Relies on feminist standpoint theory--a distinctive element of contemporary feminist thought about how knowledge is constructed. Focuses on academe as a discursive site for constructing identity. (PA)

Explores the effects of the race of the interviewer on data derived from sociolinguistic fieldwork. Particular focus is on the potentially differing effects of white and African-American fieldworkers on interviews with African-American interviewees. (Author/VWL)

Offers an examination of the distributional range of causative verbs. Contrary to research claiming these verbs have highly circumscribed distributions, demonstrates that they readily appear in a wide variety of argument structure frames. The appearance of accusative verbs with omitted patient arguments is analyzed in detail and an account is…

Presents a comment on Laurie Grobman's article in an earlier issue of this journal, discussing her oversimplification of instrumental discovery theory and outlining briefly some of the limits of social construction, the approach that Grobman prefers. (SG)

Focuses on whether women and men have different perceptions about when simultaneous talk becomes interruptive. Asks participants to judge whether 20 overlaps are interruptive when presented with a conflictive interview between a high-power female and a low-power male. Suggests that verbal aggressiveness is a better predictor of recognition of…

Tests D. Schiffrin's hypothesis that the choice between "CAUSE so RESULT" sequences and "RESULT because CAUSE" sequences is determined by topic continuity against British conversational data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English. Produces results similar to Schiffrin's. Concludes that these studies reveal a cohesive…

Claims that everyday discourse is in fact richly metaphorical and that, through the operation of metaphor, people fictionalize as they talk. Argues that because literary writing has been dominated by culture and curriculum, English teachers have not been encouraged to explore aspects of language that are the core of how people think and behave.…

The discourse of a recent position paper by H.G. Widdowson is analyzed by using three methods criticized in Widdowson's paper. The paper was converted into a miniature data corpus and analyzed with the concepts of systemic functional linguistics, corpus linguistics, and critical discourse analysis. (Author/VWL)

Attempts to provide an introduction to postmodernism for health care workers that spans postmodernist and modernist discourses. Discusses metanarratives, authority, discourse, deconstruction, textuality, and difference. (Contains 42 references.) (SK)

Traces how the individualizing of literacy problems is constructed through dominant discourses of blame and victimization, and how these detract attention from both the nature of literacy as a cultural and variable construct and from broader socioeconomic explanations for literacy difficulties. (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on ESL Literacy…

Outlines the characteristics of traditional academic discourse. Analyzes some examples of the new hybrid discourses in order to show what the author means by hybrid and to provide suggestions for hybrid rhetorical strategies that may be helpful to share with students. Offers some tentative suggestions on teaching intended mainly to stimulate…

Analyzes the linguistic notion of procedural vocabulary, proposing that several different vocabulary concepts are part of this type of vocabulary. The paper discusses the role of procedural vocabulary in discourse, suggesting that the concepts of schema and procedure are relevant for describing this type of vocabulary and categorizing it into two…