Presentation of a methodology for instruction in reading and interpreting graphs and charts in a foreign language class. Illustrated by several demographic charts, the discussion includes an explanation of graphic semiology, several pedagogical approaches, the relationship between written text and graph and a bibliography. (Text is in French.)…

The English Department at Carnegie Mellon believes they are creating a new-wave curriculum. Theoretical questions are becoming the center of undergraduate study. Scholars want students to think about the political, social, and historical forces that end up shaping a writer's vision, the written work, and the reader's interpretation. (MLW)

Urges the use of new developments in structuralist and poststructuralist theory as the basis for a new practice in the teaching of composition. (CRH)

Discusses semiotics, which, in dealing with how meaning is communicated, views language as only one component of communication activity. Gives special attention to the new perspectives which semiotics has given to the study and teaching of intonation. (FB)

Examines "trends" in English teaching in four categories: interests, trends, movements, and repertoire. (HOD)

Investigates the genres, sign systems, and cueing systems of hypermedia literacy. Contends that increased knowledge of this complex literacy will help educators plan curriculum and evaluate student progress. Explains that the analysis is based on a microethnographic study that investigated hypermedia composition in a seventh-grade language arts…

Purposes a semiotic model for analyzing messages of the cinematic medium in film and television, and demonstrates its applicability to the study of children's comprehension of these messages. Highlights include the effects of visual and temporal features on comprehension; film and photography; and cognitive-developmental factors in comprehension.…

Maintains that the study of signs is divided between those scholars who use the Saussurian binary sign (semiology) and those who prefer the Peirce tripartite sign (semiotics). Concludes that neither the Saussurian nor Peircian analysis methods can produce a semiotic interpretation based on a hierarchy of the text's various components. (CFR)

Discusses concepts of semiotics relevant to visual literacy and stresses two important points of intersection: active perception and diversity of sign systems. Argues that an educational program with a semiotic framework would change its focus from content to process, and that a visual literacy component would enhance learning across modalities,…

Based on the analysis of the video recording of a French Grade 7 mathematics, this analysis bears on two specific episodes when two pupils--a boy and a girl-- successively go to the board and correct an exercise. The methodology used is a psychoanalytically-oriented clinical approach enriched with a micro-analytical description of the behavior of…

Describes Semio, a company founded in 1996 that uses semiology to provide straightforward access to information. Discusses the text-mining engine at the core of the company's software; products; focus on the intranet market; competitors; partnership with corporate portals. (AEF)

Explains some major problems related to the subject indexing process and proposes semiotics as a framework for understanding the interpretive nature of the process. Explores the approach to studies of indexing and library and information science suggested by Fairthorne, Blair, Benediktsson, and others. Offers an explanation of what occurs in the…

A view on music within the framework depicted in this article will show, first of all, that music is part of the semiotically organized connections between living creatures. Music is universally present in human culture, and if music is, as Francis Sparshott says, a system of its own, with elements such as intervals, keys, and scales that are…

In this paper we explore the relationship between language acquisition, and the construction of a symbolic world. According to Bowers (1989) language is a collection of patterns regulating social life. This conception is close to that of Symbolic Interactionists (Charon, 1989) who see society as made up of interacting individuals who are symbol…

This paper addresses the scarcity of research on depictions and layout in sex education materials. It is argued that pictures and layout can inform an analysis of social stratification based on visual access. This process of social organization is located using four theoretical models. However these models do not lend themselves to a close reading…