Work supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the University of Michigan. (DD)

Author defines five communication systems: graphic code, idea code, word code, alphabetical code, and electronetic code. Illustrative slides are available at cost from the author. (SP)

Special issue devoted to language and history. (VM)

Outlines an alternative interpretive approach to listening which is grounded in the hermeneutic phenomenologies of Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur. Explains four features of this alternative: openness, linguisticality, play, and the fusion of horizons. Discusses conceptual and pedagogical implications. (PD)

A model of the structure of complex words based on an organization of the internal lexicon by shared-meaning content is proposed. Results of traditional linguistic experiments testing the hypothesis show that meaning content is a more salient basis for judgments of similarity and difference than is meaning structure. (PMJ)

This article discusses various philosophies and ways of approaching literature, specifically with regard to the teaching of literature. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Endorses recent arguments for more study of writing that shapes and directs the production of material artifacts and for considering writing as one semiotic mode among others. Considers a case of "nonwritten" symbolic production, architectural design, for what it may suggest for the study and teaching of writing. (TB)

Explored whether a system between written place-value system and base-10 manipulatives helped children understand place-value. Found evidence that the intermediate system helped children differentiate between face values and complete values of digits in multidigit place-value number representations, and to grasp that the sum of the digits'…

Contends that the changing constellation of semiotic and spatial practices associated with new media and online literacies constitutes a very different object of research than has been addressed by literacy researchers. Concludes that literacy researchers need to develop new repertoires of literacy practices in relation to everyday use of…

Describes theoretical points concerning the idea of semiotic means of objectification. Analyzes classroom activity by observing the interface between the spoken and the seen. Discusses the role of a category of linguistic terms related to actions of showing or pointing out something that constitute a key element in the mathematical discursive…

Defines biorhetoric as a discourse of bodysigns. Explores the ways in which a biorhetoric offers the possibility of effecting radical change by positioning educators within the ambiguous interplay of materiality and semiosis. Examines biorhetoric as a tool for and a medium of change by exploring facets of its double vision. Offers an enactment of…

Explores Walter H. Beale's "A Pragmatic Theory of Rhetoric," and places it in relation to other theories. Discusses Beale's semiotic theory of written discourse, its contribution, and relates Beale's aims to the rhetorical theories of James Kinnevey and James Britton. (SR)