Argues that structuralism needs to be given a wider base than that of the highly specialized studies that are usually cited as examples. Rather, extension should be made philosophically, in the direction of phenomenology, and, practically, with some of the work being done in linguistics. (HOD)

The cognitive significance of the body has become one of the major topics in current psychology. However, it is our contention that claims about the embodied nature of thinking must come to terms with the problem of the relationship between the body as a locus for the constitution of students' subjective mathematical meanings and the historical…

Original version of this paper appeared in "Voprosy jazykoznanija", v5, p37-48, 1971. (DD)

Traces psychologists' understanding of phantasms from Freudian era to the present. (DD)

Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (DD)

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

Discussion of the place of lexicography within the science of linguistics. (VM)

Discusses the generative phonology model for the Lithuanian definite adjective, showing its inadequacy as a model of speaker competence. Suggests that if P Rules must be proposed to derive surface alternations of autonomous phonemes, then syntax is at least "being" replaced by morphology. (Executive Office of the AABS, 231 Miller Rd., Mahwah, NJ…

This study investigated whether object-picture discrepancy occurs because preschool children regard pictures as significates rather than as signifiers. Results indicated the children did not consistently respond to objects and their pictorial representations equivalently. (Author/DB)

Contrasts the situation of the French language and of sociolinguistic research in France and in Canada. (AM)

The study of how signs convey meaning is applied to photographs, which are deemed the ideal vehicle for intercultural communication because of their realistic nature. Several classes of signs are identified and their meanings discussed. (JEG)

Proposes that a semiotic approach can be used as a supplementary method in assessing the denotations and connotations of the signs and their relationships in computer learning environments. Utilizes the semiotic framework to study visual images, especially how multiple, interactive, and manipulative statistical representations affect the…

Highlights significance of analysis of organized action within educational research. Describes and demonstrates an analytical approach to action applicable to the classroom, developed from approaches to analysis of bodily communication and action in drama education, and from new approaches to rhetoric that draw on social semiotic theories of…

Addresses a "critical" or "reflective" visual literacy. Situates visual representations and their interpretation (the construction of meaning) within a context that raises questions about benefit and power. Explores four main topics: the image as text; analysis and meaning construction; visual literacy as a liberatory practice;…