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Peer reviewedAdams, John Charles. – Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1989
Argues against Thomas O. Sloane's allegation that John Milton's "Artis Logicae," a commentary on Pierre de la Ramee's "Dialecticae libri duo," manifests antihumanism characteristics of Milton and Ramus. Reexamines Milton's account of probability, the links between Ramus and Cicero, and the roles Ramism played in sixteenth- and…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Literary Criticism, Persuasive Discourse, Poetry
Patil, P. B. – 1988
One of the central problems in the study of fictional prose is that of distinguishing between mere linguistic regularity, which in itself is of no interest to literary studies, and regularity which is significant for the text in which it is found. General criteria for determining whether any particular instance of linguistic prominence is likely…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles, Literature
Download full textAkindele, Femi – 1991
Although many studies have been undertaken by literary critics and stylisticians on African English literary texts generally and Nigerian English prose fiction specifically, there has been little or no analysis of dialogue and discourse in such texts. An examination of the phenomenon of speech as manifested in conversational pieces in Nigerian…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis, Fiction
Dubois, Betty Lou; Crouch, Isabel M. – 1979
Portions of a corpus of modern American prose were analyzed for the occurrence of "man" and its compounds. The passages analyzed were written in 1961, and showed no effects of recent movements to "desex" language. Occurrences were classified as generic mixed, generic masculine, and specified masculine. The mean of instances per…
Descriptors: Language Research, Prose, Sex Discrimination, Sex Fairness
Tourangeau, Roger; Sternberg, Robert J. – 1978
The three dominant views of metaphor emphasize comparison anomaly or dissimilarity, and a somewhat vaguer notion that combines aspects of the first two, called conceptual interaction. In all three views, a central consideration as to the aptness of the metaphor is the similarity of the objects linked by the metaphor (tenor and vehicle). The exact…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Figurative Language, Higher Education, Identification (Psychology)
PDF pending restorationMcAlpine, Dave – 1987
Following a brief discussion of the origins of the Chicanos in the Midwest, this paper surveys and quotes at length from several Spanish language periodicals produced in the Midwest between 1925 and the early 1980s. Discussion of the Chicano origins in the Midwest touches on emigration resulting from the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917, the…
Descriptors: Authors, Fiction, Foreign Language Periodicals, Literary Criticism
