The claim that dialects of a language do not always share the same underlying forms is known as the independency principle. (DD)

Small sample is unable to clarify problems, and suggests need for replication. Trend is noted, however, indicating that words evoke more sensory reactions than pictures and that Spanish evokes more sense impression responses than English. Suggests further investigation for use in foreign language study. (Author/CJ)

Focuses on moral agency in contexts of oppression in a case study involving unintelligibility between two women who identify differently with respect to sexual preference. Demonstrates the similarity of intelligibility to an ethics of care through conceptual analysis, and considers ways that such moral learning is relevant to moral educators. (DSK)

Examines the future spread of English around the globe and the challenges of maintaining common standards and mutual intelligibility among different varieties of English. Discusses changes in Kachru's three circles of English speakers, and features of English as a global language. (Author/VWL)

Explores the need to implement the World Englishes (WE) perspective into international teaching assistant (ITA) programs. While traditional ITA programs typically view ITA speech as deficient and in need of improvement, the WE perspective asserts that intelligibility is dependent upon interaction between speaker and listener, thereby rendering…

Employing conversation analysis as a research technique, this study investigates the ways that unintelligibility is accounted for and overcome within a therapeutic encounter between an individual with aphasia and dysarthria and his clinician. The results emphasize the collaborative nature of intelligibility negotiation and demonstrate how both the…

When understanding or evaluating foreign-accented speech, listeners are affected not only by properties of the speech itself but by their own linguistic backgrounds and their experience with different speech varieties. Given the latter influence, it is not known to what degree a diverse group of listeners might share a response to second language…

Measurement of the mutual intelligibility of dialects of a language is discussed. The focus is on several theoretical constructs in measurement, illustrated with data from an earlier study of the mutual intelligibility of 17 Chinese dialects. Measurement procedures are also explained. It is proposed that mutual intelligibility is based on the…

Suggests that the loss of any good idea which cannot be shared because a person lacks the language spoken by the majority is a detriment to maintaining democracy. Such loss is what we may expect whenever the opportunity to learn standard spoken English is limited for any reason. (TO)

Viewing expression of affection as a problem in interpersonal communication, the author surveys psychological theories of affection and hostility. A brief summary of Freud's concepts of "death wish" and "eros" and a thorough consideration of Menninger's approach to re-direction of self-love are included, along with an overview…

Discusses some ramifications of the Conference on College Composition and Communication's resolution on "Students' Right to Their Own Language." (DD)

Presidential address delivered to the Linguistic Society of America at its Annual Meeting, December 28, 1972, Atlanta, Georgia. (DD)