Discusses the character of Claudius in "Hamlet" to determine the character's sincerity. (DF)

Examines a selection of papers from the "British Medical Journal" to determine how, why, and where the subjective element (as distinguished from objective statements of accepted fact) is introduced in three categories of articles. Makes recommendations from findings to be considered in syllabus design for English for science and…

Describes a class project in which students solicited the opinions of famous and important people concerning the issue of nuclear war. The project taught students the process of inquiry and critical thinking. (HTH)

Presents an outline of the textual and the ethnomethodological approaches to the analysis of discourse processing in second language learning and discusses their major strengths and weaknesses. Looks at the implications for English as a second language research, theory, and practice. Suggests that classroom discourse analysis should be encouraged.…

Presents 11 of the more that 50 women whose works are known from the Elizabethan Age. (CRH)

Presents a brief introduction to study of rhetorical structures in everyday English use. Emphasizes typical structures in texts and the words that signal and mediate between major types of information. The basic theoretical concepts are studied first, followed by detailed analysis of structure, word choice, and style. These concepts are applied to…

Discusses focusing, the manner in which speakers center attention on a particular element of discourse, and describes a process model of focusing that specifies what syntactic, semantic, and world knowledge constraints are needed for a hearer to track a speaker's focus in a discourse. (FL)

Examines the narrative story structure of a short American Sign Language narrative using stylistic analysis plus the structure of pausing in the narrative. (FL)

The discourse interaction between adult and child was examined in terms of the content of their utterances, and the linguistic and contextual relations between their messages, in order to investigate how children use the information from adults' input sentences to form contingent responses. (Author/BW)

Outlines, in a satirical expose, the lack of conclusive evidence on the effects of the utterance, "Please pass the salt." (MH)

This paper examines various ways in which communication between patient and doctor can fail, and suggests a framework that will enable researchers to distinguish and analyze the factors involved in the success or failure of verbal communication. (CHK)

This article presents findings from a qualitative arts-based research project that took place in a fourth-grade classroom over the period of one school year. The article examines the impact of storytelling on children's self concept. In addition, it discusses how storytelling helped children process their social experiences in school. The study…

This paper provides an overview of discourse analysis from a linguistic point of view, discussing why it is relevant to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). It focuses on the following: discourse and discourse analysis; discourse analysis and TESOL; approaches to discourse analysis; systemic functional linguistics; theme and…

Two different approaches to the definition of literature (criterial and prototypical) are described, and some features of a prototypical literary work are outlined. The criterial approach attempts to provide criteria that must be met by all texts to be called literature. The prototype approach focuses on a particularly good example to which other…

This study uses discursive perspectives to study emotion in school mathematics. The researchers regard emotion as distinct but inseparable from cognition: the organizing metaphor portrays emotion as a charge attached to ideas or (chains of) signifiers. Based in language, emotions are seen as discursively formed, culturally constituted, and…