Several different theories of semiotics and linguistics are examined. (Text is in French.) (PMP)

This study examines strategic and semantic aspects of the answers given by preschool children to class inclusion problems. Results show that children understand the semantics of inclusion but are unable to coordinate their semantic knowledge with enumeration strategy. (Author/DEP)

Reviews some of the most productive issues and books on the semiotics of television. (PD)

Describes a course in semiotics (the study of signs and systems of communication) taught for the past 10 years by the author. (DD)

College promotional discourse highlights qualities that a college claims for itself--claims to instill or select for in students (skills or leadership) or values in itself and its students (diversity). These terms appear to have clear cut referents because of their semiotic coherence in this discourse. Shows how promotional terms are strategically…

Proposes to supplement the changes in oral interpretation pedagogy brought about in broadening the idea of "text" by describing an alternative approach to analyzing and performing texts based on semiotic theory and Robert Scholes' model of reading. (SR)

Reviews an article by D.J. Cunningham, "Education Psychology: Steps toward an Educational Semiotic" on the differing views of knowledge held in the fields of educational psychology and semiotics. (SR)

Currently, the language sciences place together four different forms of mental activity on one plane of language, which results in confusion. This paper presents arguments from metaphysics, hermeneutics, and semiotics to demonstrate that there are actually three planes of language (a biologically-based information processing plane, a literal…

Offers a redefining of three problem areas associated with the cognitive effects of the semiotic characteristics of hypermedia: hypertext associativity, non-linearity, and the rapprochement of real and hypertext navigation. Focuses on navigation and discusses characteristics of hypermedia and its rapport with knowledge. (Author/LRW)

Looks at educational research from a macro perspective, advocating semiotics as the foundation for qualitative research in education. Presents myths and disputations and an open-ended conclusion via the kaleidoscopic interpretations of Jack London, Phil Dick, Jack Kerouac, the Grateful Dead, and an assortment of street characters. (Author/VWL)

Examines a passage written by Freud, discussing the application of psychoanalysis to education and his daughter Anna. Discusses how the passage led to diverse interpretations in France in the 1970s and 1980s when only one French language translation was available. (Author/VWL)

Submits references from a journal kept to accompany a new research project. Sheds light on the delicate relationship between life story and narrative reference. (Author/VWL)

The discussion on subjectivity is based on the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's understanding of subjectivity as constructed in and through language, and the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce's general ideas of signifying construction as an unlimited sign-exchanging process--the idea of the unlimited semiosis. The article advocates combining…

After a critique of the standard literacy practice in primary school, the article develops a Vygotskian view on literacy that defines literate activity as a generalised ability of using sign systems for personal and interpersonal use within specific cultural practices. Narrative competence is seen as one specific form of this literate activity.…

Learning is better than knowing, generalization is more illuminating than abstract generality or universality because we perceive and thus become conscious of change or development only. Signs and representations establish the dialectic of fixation on the one hand and transformation on the other, which is so essential to learning and cognition.…