Argues that recent attacks on euphemism have been too simplistic. (DD)

Critically examines contemporary interactional studies of the cultural specificity of human language. The study is a cross-cultural analysis of misconstrued communications in human interaction, ascertaining whether these interactions are crucially dependent on nonlinguistic variables. (CB)

The study of folk speech, which traditionally included only regional dialects, has evolved to include cultural and generational dialects. This article discusses how folk speech study has come to include a range of dialects and a variety of sociolinguistic trends. (JL)

Explores the social history of Chinese surnames in the United States since immigration from China began in the 19th century. Discusses surnames in relation to immigration laws, census records, dialectical differences, and acculturation. (GC)

Using Belgium as an example, argues that a linguistic ecological viewpoint is important for the description of linguistic/ethnic contact areas in which one or more languages are in danger of dying without any apparent political decisions. It is not as important for the description of stable, diglossic, or multilingual areas or for open bilingual…

Using as a framework the theory of the ecology of language formulated by Einar Haugen, compares two Finnish minorities in Sweden, one which ceased to exist in the middle of this century and one, the Tornedal Finnish minority, which still exists. Discusses circumstances favorable to the preservation of Finnish in the Tornedal. (SED)

Four aspects of sociopolitical language are: (1) keywords are defined by a movement; (2) a movement, realized in its language, must be analyzed as having both surface and hidden meanings; (3) the propagandistic function of sociopolitical language forces "value" on the keyword; and (4) a movement creates its linguistic field. (MSE)

In research on the historical present tense, neither interviews nor tape-recorded group sessions proved neutral or adequate. An explanation is found in the notion of a speech event, and simple techniques of participation are advocated. (Author/RM)

The presence of many languages in our society and our classrooms has implications for conducting research, both in terms of the validity of the research and the broader social responsibilities of the mathematics education research community. This paper argues that in some ways mathematics education research causes or reproduces the educational and…

Revised version of a paper presented at the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Corvallis, Oregon, March 1970. (DD)

Influence of the Slavonic cultural society on the development of three Slavonic literary languages is examined; paper presented at the 7th International Congress of Slavists, Warsaw, Poland, August 1973. (RL)

Paper presented at the Linguistic Section of ACFAS in Ottawa, Canada, October 13, 1972. (DS)

Research made possible by a National Science Foundation Institutional grant to the University of Arizona. (VM)

Study results cast doubt on the validity of a currently popular notion that ghetto children learn more readily when instruction is presented in familiar dialect. More study is needed before accepting Dialect as a language of instruction for black children. (Author)