Defining whole language in a postmodern age.

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy;  May 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Can whole language be 'defined' in the true sense of the...Lorraine Wilson believes that while whole language can never be 'defined' in the sense suggested...article she describes how a group of whole language advocates set about defining what whole...

`Language has emotive power'

New Straits Times;  April 12, 2002 ;     122 words ...New Straits Times 04-12-2002 `Language has emotive power' Edition: Main/Lifestyle...National PETALING JAYA, Thurs. - Language possesses great emotive power and...our daily lives. Raja Zarith Sofiah Sultan Idris Shah said this when presenting the...of the International Conference on Language ...

language

The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar;      210 words ...language 1. (In the most general sense.) The method of human communication, consisting of words, either spoken or written. 2. The variety of this used by a particular community or nation. e.g. the English language , the languages of the British Isles , Indo-European languages , Romance ...

Will S. African Language Go Way of Apartheid?

The Washington Post;  December 25, 1993 ;     700+ words ...The Afrikaans language survived British colonization. It seems...Afrikaners are these days about their language - an Africanized derivative from Dutch...Dutch - white settlers arrived. The language of their 20th century descendants, as...

Living language:At this conference

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Living language: At this conference, Yiddish is anything...Yiddish, many as their first or only language. Today, linguists believe the number...conference in Milwaukee that theirs is a dying language. "I don't feel I can live a full Jewish...

Re-visioning gender and language research.

Women and Language;  March 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ...The area of language and gender has attracted attention from a wide range of...identified as having two broad types of concern - sex bias in language and sex difference in language use (Henley, 1995).(2) Early work on sexism in language...

HUMAN BEHAVIOR AS LANGUAGE: SOME THOUGHTS ON WITTGENSTEIN

Behavior and Philosophy;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT: Language has been traditionally considered as a special psychological...learning, memory, and thinking. Based on Wittgenstein's notion of language game, I argue that language is not limited to a psychological phenomenon, but rather it...

Our inflationary language: a metaphor of communication. (Metaphors in...

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics;  December 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ...WE USE LANGUAGE, that marvelous technology, to talk about our lives, our past, our future. We can even use language to talk about language. But what happens when language changes its role in our lives...

Language, history, and class struggle.

Monthly Review;  July 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Language is the immediate actuality of thought. just as philosophers...thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm. We are witnessing today a new...large sections of the intellectual left, which has turned language not merely into an independent realm, but ...

Language and the Internet / The Language of New Media

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Language and the Internet. David Crystal. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.272pp. GBP 13.95 hbk. The Language of New Media. Lev Manovich. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. 354 pp. $34.95 hbk. $19.95 pbk. In Language and the Internet, David Crystal examines the Internet...

Language context guides memory content

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The relationship between language and memory was examined by testing...accessibility of general knowledge across two languages in bilinguals. Mandarin-English speakers...question) were more susceptible to language dependency than univalent information...

Reith Lectures: Is our language in decay?

The Independent - London;  February 7, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Is our language sick? You might think so, judging from...moaned a writer in a daily newspaper. "The language the world is crying out to learn is diseased...another. But why? English is a major world language: is it really in need of hospital treatment...

Learning through language in early childhood.(Book Review)

Southwest Journal of Linguistics;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Learning through language in early childhood. By CLARE PAINTER...Painter explores how children develop language through a systemic approach of construing...learning principles used in acquiring language are not restricted to linguistic processes...

Language Works--a collection of resources for exploring language.(Book...

NATE Classroom;  June 22, 2008 ;     348 words ...Language Works--a collection of resources for exploring language English and Media Centre ISBN 9781906101008 95.00 [pounds streling], inc DVD [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Language Works does exactly what it says on the tin. It comprises...

Cultural discontinuity between home and school language socialization...

Education;  December 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...What is Language Socialization? Language is a means by which we communicate, but it is more than just...than the primary content of the message. By this we mean that language serves multiple functions. We use it to exchange, share, report...