Examines students' roles during a long-term collaborative task that required mastering complex sets of cognitive, regulatory, and social skills needed for building knowledge largely from their own and their peers' ideas and observations. Describes the eight prominent sociocognitive roles that emerged from the study. Contains 61 references.…

Focuses on how art viewers express their aesthetic experiences into linguistic structures. Analyzes the language of novice adult art viewers and, using discourse analysis, identifies four interpretive strategies evident in their speech: (1) contrast, (2) negation, (3) speculation, and (4) narration. Discusses each strategy in relation to current…

Offers an overview of contrasts and similarities in various approaches to Shakespeare studies. Discusses how a shift in perspectives from grappling with tragic moral themes to examining aesthetic and semantic complexity represents a productive way to respond to Shakespeare. (NH)

On the basis of a think-aloud protocol from an experienced public-service translator, this article uses some of the tools of critical-discourse analysis and translation-quality assessment to present a case study of one such public-service translator and to discuss wider implications for others in the profession. (Author/VWL)

Compares the turn-taking systems in computer-mediated communication (CMC) and oral conversation. The study is based on quasisynchronous CMC conversations between students in a college classroom.(Author/VWL)

Finds that argumentativeness and verbal aggressiveness did not correlate with the development and defense of undergraduate students' ideas but that the dyad's composition (in terms of argumentativeness and verbal aggressiveness) affected the proportion of ideas developed through argument. Suggests that argumentativeness and aggressiveness research…

Focuses on language as a contributing factor in conflicts between as well as within nations. Specific sections address these issues: language and warfare in pre-nationalist Europe; the role of language in building the nation states of Europe; language and the contractual nation; language and the descent nation; the citizen's army and total war;…

Describes the process and discourse stances of a team of teachers involved in deriving a rating scale for writing ability. Focuses on instances during the process where actions of the participants or their use of the data sample could be shown to influence the criteria potential for variation within the two test method characteristics of "scale…

Genre analysis is a form of discourse analysis that can provide useful and sometimes surprising new perspectives on understanding teaching and learning. Uses two examples to illustrate the application of genre analysis in mathematics education. (Contains 23 references.) (ASK)

Analyzes data from natural Igbo-English bilingual discourse that demonstrates how the two most important manifestations of language contact--codeswitching and borrowing--can be unambiguously and consistently distinguished. (Author/VWL)

Contributes to scholarship which advances the understanding of human communication. Explicates Tronto's (1993) theory of moral boundaries as a framework for analyzing the rhetoric of a patriarchal ideology that privileges men and marginalizes women. Examines the discourse surrounding the failed nomination of Zoe Baird for U.S. Attorney General,…

Analyzes (using flight attendants) hidden transcripts--interactions, stories, myths, and rituals in which employees participate beyond direct observation--to provide an avenue to identify resistance and change in the organizing process. Challenges the outdated ideal of transmissional meaning, questions organizational power by including the…

Demonstrates the willingness and ability of non-linguists to provide information about "what they know" about everyday speech activities in the form of their interpretive responses to various tape-recorded fragments of talk. Three types of information are identified from these responses, including overtly "available" information about a variety of…

Belongs to a series of papers examining how scholars understand and explain the Internet. Offers reflections on discourse about the Internet; communication technologies across time; the future; discourse online; and the importance of discourse today. Highlights questions about how the Internet may reshape discourse, community, people's…

Teachers and students can use color to identify different types of writing. This article describes using color to highlight annotations, identity, topic sentences, thoughts and emotions, logical arguments, advertising and selling, showing and telling, and looking and seeing. Includes sample assignments for identifying emotional content, topic…