An assignment to write a comment in less than fifty words encourages conciseness and precision. (JH)

Argues that discontinuities between sentences can often be explained in terms of syntactic relationships within individual sentences. (AA)

Examines various approaches to textual description, and argues that the Prague model provides the most adequate criteria for describing communicative dynamism in, for example, narrative, descriptive, or discussion style. (AM)

Focuses on Lyndon Johnson's public statements about Vietnam during the final eighteen months of his presidency in an attempt to gain a perspective on the factors which shape presidential rhetoric. (MH)

Examines the representation of women in the language of important public communication events such as formal public speeches delivered by male political candidates. (MH)

Traces the genesis of Plato's "conflict" psychology and documents the influence of this genesis on his discussion of rhetoric in the Gorgias and Phaedrus. (Ed.)

Describes the recommendations of Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon, an 18th century religious speaker, concerning rhetoric as defined in his Letter to the Academy. (MH)

A linguistic analysis of 30 political speeches by de Gaulle is presented. The speeches are compared with regard to pronouns, verb tense, ways of referring to France, length of phrase, and total length of speech. The speeches are then characterized as electoral/non-electoral and evolution/crisis. (Text is in French.) (MLA)

Examines the invocation delivered by Bishop William P. Cannon at the Carter inauguration and contends that the invocation departs from previous inaugural prayer rhetorical forms and may indicate serious implications for both religious and political persuaders. (MH)

Uses a linguistic analysis of a sample freshman theme to argue that the motivating context must elicit a genuine speech act, that the students must conceive of their themes as semantic units or unified wholes, and that novice writers must learn to become readers of their own writing. (AA)

Focuses on some of the most important features of world and national political campaigns as constructed by and presented in television network news primarily in the 1976 presidential campaign. (MH)

Argues that Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" speech of 1775 lacks textual authenticity and discusses how and why a text was created to replace the oral tradition of "Liberty or Death" and why its influence has continued for two hundred years. (MH)

The organization of repair in a corpus of conversations in the Lue, Yuan (or Myang), and Siamese dialects of Tai is examined with regard to the preference for self-correction described previously for an English corpus. In both, repair is an identically organized sequential phenomenon involving repair segments during conversation. (CHK)

An "organization of repair" operates in conversation, addressed to recurrent problems in speaking, hearing, and understanding. Several features of that organization are introduced to explicate the mechanism producing a skewing in which self-repair predominates over other-repair, and to show the operation of a preference for self-repair.…