Contrasts the technological methods discourse of technology education, which emphasizes "universal man," with discourses that include gender and race in the vision of what technology is and for whom and by whom it is designed. Offers ideas for opening technology disclosures to difference. (SK)

Critiques the usage of "rurality"--a key term in the field of "rural" studies. Suggests that the multiple meanings of "rurality" demonstrate the rupture of sign and signification discussed in recent debates concerning ideology, hegemony, and poststructuralism. Argues in favor of a productive dialog between Gramscian…

Provides a framework of four constructs that can be used to analyze various forms of classroom communication. Develops and uses these constructs as two preservice teacher's concepts of communication and their corresponding classroom practices are considered. (Contains 33 references.) (Author/ASK)

Examines the discursive strategies boys and girls use to negotiate conflict in two cultures: the United States and Mainland China. China represents a particularly interesting contrast with the United States. Unlike their U.S. counterparts, Chinese preschool-age girls have been observed to be quite assertive. (Author/VWL)

This study explored the attitudes of young people in Brittany towards Breton and French, including questions of identity and perceptions of the future of the Breton language. Combined several different techniques within the same project to gain different insights into the issues and established techniques for gathering data on language attitudes…

Discusses the author's 1991 conference speech that argued that if postmodern discourse has taught us anything, it is that "rhetoric" is at the center of all knowledge making, even in the sciences. Addresses the future of composition as a discipline and whether scholars in the field will position themselves as "enemies" or as "adversaries" in this…

Acknowledges that the term "education for the environment" has generated powerful images and proposes that the term has become a slogan. Identifies anomalies and inconsistencies associated with the use of the term. Contains 41 references. (DDR)

Examines the discursive construction of identity and power in a Japanese online discourse community by focusing on an email list for Japanese professionals in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Argues that online discourse communities do not diminish hierarchical social relations found in offline discourses but…

Interviews with 109 Canadian women entrepreneurs explored processes of learning and change and conflicting images and messages they perceived about success, work, and competition, including discourses of self-determination and the good mother. Their experiences show how they either appropriate or resist these messages to shape their own meanings…

Narrative attainment was assessed in 76 four-year-old children at risk for brain injury because of histories of early corrective heart surgery. Despite considerable heterogeneity in narrative performance, children with early corrective heart surgery produced fewer narrative components than typically developing children. Implications for clinical…

Analyzes texts published by ExxonMobil on the issue of climate change, employing both rhetorical analysis and discourse analysis to show their uses and potential value in business communication research. Shows how both reveal the socially constructed nature "reality" and the social effects of language, but are never the less distinct in…

Research on negotiation has focused thus far on oral conversation and interaction. The study discussed here expands on this line of research by investigating whether learners engage in negotiation when exchanging ideas in synchronous computer-mediated interaction. (Author/VWL)

Through corpus analysis and experimentation, this article demonstrates that both grammatical complexity (heaviness) and discourse status (newness) simultaneously and independently influence word order in two English constructions. Argues that heavy and new constituents facilitate the processes of planning and production. (Author/VWL)

Analysis of economic determinist discourses about lifelong learning finds progressive, liberatory viewpoints marginalized or excluded. Economic discourse lacks social vision and commitment to equity and commodifies education as a private good. Educators with liberatory views must point the way to culturally progressive change. (SK)

Examines the relationship between grammar and discourse and explores the implications of this relationship for language education. Suggests that the linear approach to language acquisition is problematic and does not reflect what is known about the process of acquisition. Argues for an "organic" approach. (Author/VWL)