Examines the notion of community in terms of language forms and specialized knowledge, and in terms of the social organization of the members of discipline groups. (Author)

Special issue devoted to the study of generative grammar in German-speaking countries. (VM)

Part 1 of a continued article. (WB)

Maintains that all rhetoric is "loaded" connotatively, that such loading is neither ethical nor unethical, and that it ought to be used purposefully; revised version of a paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Atlanta, November 28, 1970). (Editor/RD)

A discussion of how one perceive YsI form versus formlessness in discourse." (Author/RD)

An evaluative review of Francis Christensen's generative rhetoric theory and its application to teaching freshman composition. (DS)

Concludes that the general theory of text processing proposed by Kintsch and van Dijk is able to account for the memory of radio news bulletins in a number of respects. (FL)

Structural analysis of literature, and one particular analysis of discourse, are criticized as technical rather than critical in nature, depersonalized, and conformist. The objections to the specific analysis are outlined and discussed. (MSE)

This study investigates the construct validity of profiles of high school students' (n=92) writing competence obtained from tasks designed to be parallel on all dimensions but discourse mode (expository or narrative) and response mode (direct or indirect). (Author/PN)

Examines the extent to which the structure of simple conversations influences the subsequent memorability of dialogues. (FL)